Douglas A-26 Invader

[heywooood]

Since we're seeing the gun nosed version

 

[Priller]

On a side note: Didier, what is that scenery? It's lovely!

 

[lagaffe]

@Priller,

CTH3 - Les Grandes Bergeronnes: it's a litte scenery located in QUEBEC, near Tadoussac on the St Laurent. It's my first scenery for MSFS 2020.
Asobo/Microsoft has changed the elevation of the surrounding land since some SU: it needs to be upgraded

PS: This Cessna is my C 150 TiBush created for FSX/P3D but it's not yet under MSFS. It is the carrying of a real plane belonging to JM Girard, a Quebecois from the Laurentians region with whom I exchanged during the creation of the plane in 2013.


=> http://frenchvfr.free.fr/download.php?lng=en&dirdnl=no&tconfig=0&id=4

 

[heywooood]

here we go - just radial music

 

[Priller]

Thanks @heywooood my neighbours hate me know. That was brilliant!!

Priller

 

[lagaffe]

Searching information about this aircraft, I found this video very interesting, on a B-26 K:

and this one for an A-26 B Light Bomber more related to the one I am working on

 

[roger-wilco-66]

here we go - just radial music

Oh man. My wife complained because of the sound, she thought I was simming again

Cheers,
Mark

 

[heywooood]

she was born loud, fellers...

 

[TuFun]

Went to a car show and this A-26 had an interesting set of guns.

 

[heywooood]

I think I read somewhere that often, in the field during the war, if the plexiglass noses where cracked or broken or otherwise holed, rather than wait the 'two weeks' for a replacement, the ground crews would fashion an aluminum replacement from scrapped aircraft on the base.
Also - since .50 cal machine guns and ammo boxes were as plentiful as rain - those new aluminum noses would be ported for gun barrels in all kinds of configurations.

 

[FlyingsCool]

A few sites I use for research

Flight manuals, brochures, photos, many years of collecting information. It started as a site for Douglas and McDonnell Douglas history, now there's tons of stuff from all sorts of aircraft https://aviationarchives.blogspot.com/

A site for modelers of everything https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/manual-index-american.36322/ It's more than WWII...

IPMS site - Technical Orders Type Specific section has a bunch of manuals of USAF aircraft

Tons and tons of 3D models https://sketchfab.com/search?features=downloadable&q=War+thunder&sort_by=-publishedAt&type=models
Just about all already in GLTF format. Searching for "War Thunder" is just a start.

More 3D Models, not quite as good quality as Sketchfab https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/

 

[lagaffe]

Terrifying, I never thought I would find so many assets on Sketfab via this keyword.
My favorite is this one:

I don't know if I will use it with the A-26 but it's very funny (it seems that I have yet seen this kind of bomb in a documentary about Aircrafts Carriers)