Author: Andre Lederer Date: 29 Dec 2007
FS98/FS2000 Airbus A-330-243, Air China. Airbus A330-243 of Air China, registration: B-6076, powert by Rolls-Royce Trent 772 engines. Features maximum 3D parts, maximum moving parts, maximum textures, AF99 circle, 12 sided fuselage and engines. Landinglights, night lighted tail and windows, checklist.
Author: Andre Lederer Date: 29 Dec 2007
FS98/FS2000 Airbus A-330-243, China Eastern. Airbus A-330-243 of China Eastern, registration: B-6121, powert by Rolls-Royce Trent 772 engines. Features maximum 3D parts, maximum moving parts, maximum textures, AF99 circle, 12 sided fuselage and engines. Landinglights, night lighted tail and windows, checklist.
Author: Andre Lederer Date: 29 Dec 2007
FS98/FS2000 Airbus A-330-200, Jet Airways. Airbus A-330-200 of Jet Airways, new colors. Includs two versions: A330-202, registration: VT-JWF, powert by General Electric CF6-80E1A3 engines and A330-203, registration: VT-JWG, powert by CF6-80E1A4 engines. Features maximum 3D parts, maximum moving parts, maximum textures, AF99 circle, 12 sided fuselage and engines. Landinglights, night lighted tail and windows, checklist.
Author: Andre Lederer Date: 26 Dec 2007
FS98/FS2000 Airbus A-330-200F, UPS - United Parcle Service. Airbus A-330-200F of UPS - United Parcle Service, registration: N233UP, powert by General Electric CF6-80E1A4 engines. Features maximum 3D parts, maximum moving parts, maximum textures, AF99 circle, 12 sided fuselage and engines. Landinglights, night lighted tail and windows, checklist.
Author: Andre Lederer Date: 23 Dec 2007
FS98/FS2000 Airbus A-320-200, Etihad Airways, 9H-AFE. The first Airbus A-320-211 of Etihad Airways, registration: 9H-AFE, powert by CFM56-5A1 engines. Model featuring 12-sided AF99 fuselage and full moving parts. Landinglights, cabin windows, checklist.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 05 Dec 2007
FS2000/FS2002 Caproni CA-133. Motorised with three engines, but more powerful than the previous Ca.101'ones, it had a mixed construction, with a skeleton of steel tubes for the fuselage and a high wing, roughly elliptical, made structurally in wood and steel, while plywood and fabric were used as skin, fabric was used especially for fuselage. All this gave to this aircraft simplicity and economical maintenance, but also quite modest performances. The weaponry was meant as four machine-guns, one dorsal, one ventral, two laterals, all of Vickers model, another reminiscence of the technology developed in WWI. The bomb bay was able to hold around 800-1000kg load, and there was the possibility to hold under the fuselage the bigger ordnances, as 500kg bombs or their versions with chemical charges. The engines were in the nose and under the wings, sustained with strong steel tubes, with elliptical section. The undercarriage was totally fixed.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 02 Dec 2007
FS2000/FS2002 SNCAO ACA 5. On the 9th June 1939 the technical director of SNCAO , former Loire-Nieuport, M.Kerguistel received a letter from engineer A.Kolko. Recommended by M.Caquot, president of the SNCA firm A.Kolko proposed his plans for a complete new aircraft concept, patent Kolko Nr.825.657. Following this patent a tourist aircraft, a bomber to B.5 and a fighter was suggested all with a very compact look. The main principle was to keep the concept compact by placing all elements of the construction as close to the center of gravitity as posibe , wile still retaining a great movability. Interested by this concept , M.Caquot ordered on the 13th of June a windtunnel model to be tested in the windtunnel of SNCAO. Already on the 20th of June M.Kerguistel was ready with his first report about the results of the initial windtunel tests. Despite the longitudal stability was reasonable the stability on the ground should be far less. Several modifications to the fins and rudders could only partially solve the problem. Most of the calculated performances were found correct but the air intakes for the radiator and the cooling of the engine was very doubthfull.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 02 Dec 2007
FS2000/FS2002 Amiot 143. The Amiot 143M entered service in July, 1935. The design was already ten years old and was quite out of date. Nevertheless, 87 Amiot 143M were in the front line. 50 equipped four metropolitan groupes: GBs I/34 and II/34 in the north, GBs I/38 and II/38 in the East, and 17 equipped one African groupe as of 10 May 1940. During the Phoney War, Amiot 143M groupes carried out reconnaissance and leaflet raids over Germany. Upon the start of the Battle of France, the Amiot 143M was used in night attacks on German lines of communications. The most significant action involving the Amiot 143M was a daring daylight raid on German bridgeheads near Sedan took place on May 14, 1940.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 02 Dec 2007
FS2000/FS2002 IAI Arava 202. In the Yom Kippur War, 1973, several 'Arava 201' planes were conscripted by the IAF for transport missions in the Sinai. In the early 1980's, a number of Arava planes enetered service with the IAF, and carried out transport, instructional and operational assignments. After 'Peace for the Galilee', the planes were employed for carrying troops between Lebanon and Israel. These flights made use of the Arava's ability to land on short, rough airstrips. Heyl Ha'avir also purchased the more advanced model of the Arava, the Arava 202, which is equipped with more powerful engines. Today, the Arava is one of the IAF's principal troop-carrying transports.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 02 Dec 2007
FS2000/FS2002 Bloch 174. And its family of derivatives were French reconnaissance and bomber aircraft designed and built shortly before World War II. They were, by far, the best aircraft of this type available to the Armée de l'Air at the outbreak of war, with speed and maneuverability that allowed them to evade interception by the German fighters of the time. Delayed deliveries until 1940. Too few in number to make any measurable impact on the Battle of France, they continued in service with the Vichy forces after the armistice. The MB.174 will also be remembered as the aircraft flown by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince during the campaign.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 02 Dec 2007
FS2000/FS2002 Fokker DXXIII. Twin-engined, single-seat fighter. The D.23. had air-cooled in-line engines in a tandem arrangment, one in the nose and one in the end of the central nacelle.Slender booms carried the tailplane. This was Fokker last fighter. It had two 520hp Walter-Sagitta engines and the maximum speed was 520 km/h, fast, very fast in that time.The D.23 had one major disadvantage: if the pilot had to leave the plane at any moment for a parachute jump, he would have been cut into pieces by the rear propeller. At that time, Fokker studied the possibilities of a ejection seat.Date first flight 1939,the prototype was destroyed in 1940.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 02 Dec 2007
FS2000/FS2002 LTV-RYAN XC142. The XC142 V/STOL transport combined the versatility of the helicopter with the speed and range of an aircraft.
