B-17f Flying Fortress of the USAAC 8th Air Force capture by the Luftwaffe and given to KG200 for testing and covert use.
Textures reworked by Mike 'JG26_Bandit' Colclough


CREDITS:

The Original design of this aircraft was by John Cooper. It has been extensively modified in FSFS, AF99 and the Aircraft Animator by Roger Lowery who got permission from John.  I modified the .dp file as there were to many waist guns.  Also, I have given a more 'realistic' texture file for a B-17 of the ETO that saw many missions, crashed, and rebuilt from spare parts by Luftwaffe ground crew and made operational again.  

Special thanks go to all the gauge designers who get little credit for their work. 
I wish to point out that that the excellent work done by the various programmers and designers who made the modified file and I am not in any way taking away from their skills.  I am only claiming credit for the reworked textures.

Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress

The huge fleet of the US 8th Air Force consisted mostly of B-17s. These flew the length and breadth of Germany and from 1942 to 1945, with their bombing of factories and other strategic targets, dominated the European theatre of war. Under their onslaught, even Goering's powerful Luftwaffe crumbled in the greatest and bloodiest air war the world had ever known. It is undoubtedly due to the B-17 and its fighter escorts that the Allies gained air superiority in Europe in the closing stages of World War II. The paintwork is based on a picture of a captured B17f, and the Germans only replaced the USAF insignia with the Balkan cross, and added a yellow tailfin.  Note no Balkan cross under the wings as it was used as a 'shadow' to follow the B-17's reporting height speed and direction to the ground stations who would vector in fighters and AA.  This particular plane was the only B-17 'recaptured' by American ground soldiers in April 1945.



Installation
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Create a subdirectory called B-17kg200 in your cfs\aircraft directory.  Unzip the files into it.  Go and bomb some American bases and have fun.  If this doesn't work, ask someone who knows how to do it.  I take NO responsiblity if you screw it up.

Enjoy flying the B-17f. 

Mike 'JG26_Bandit' Colclough
http://www.designersweb.com.au/jg26
spaceace@tpg.com.au  dwmikec@bigwaters.qld.edu.au

