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FREEWARE               North American P-51B Mustang          FOR CFS 
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                   'The Hun Hunter From Texas'& AI Drone
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DESIGNED BY E,R & T ALLEN 
DUXFORD LEGENDS
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This P-51B  NA Mustang is painted to represent 42-106448  'WR-Z'  
'The Hun Hunter from Texas'  flown by 2nd Lt. Henry Brown of the  
US 8th AF, 354th Fighter Sqd, 355th FG during April 1944.


Named Mustang by the RAF for who it was designed and built as an 
alternative to the P40, lack of performance at altitude led to it 
being confined to the reconnaissance/fighter bomber role. Transformed 
by the addition of a R.R. Merlin it went on to become the "American 
Spitfire", one of aviations most "Glamorous Aircraft" and arguably the 
most versatile fighter ever made.

Capable with drop tanks of undertaking long Bomber escort Missions as 
far as Berlin and still maintain air superiority over the target, it 
was also used as a normal Day Fighter, Fighter Bomber, Photo 
Reconnaissance, Close Support and as a Dive Bomber and not just in 
W.W.II but the Korean and numerous other "Minor Conflicts" since. 
While some other types may have matched or surpassed some of its 
attributes none could equal all of them.      

Of the approximately 15469 Mustangs built 3738 were P51B's or P51C's 
(the only significant difference being the place of manufacture B's at 
Inglewood and C's at Dallas). They were engaged in combat from the 
01/12/43 until the end of the war and were the predominant variant 
until the middle of 1944 when large numbers of the P51D began to 
arrive. Mustangs accounted for approximately 4950 enemy aircraft in 
aerial combat and almost as many,4131 in ground attacks but will best 
remembered as an unsurpassed long range air superiority fighter. Sadly
while a considerably number of the D variants have been preserved, 
with many still airworthy ,there are very few of the P51B/C's and only
one or two are thought to be potentially airworthy.

With a 1450 hp Packard Merlin it had a Max speed of 440 mph at 30000 ft
and an armament of 4 x 0.5" MG's with 350 round for the inboard and 
280 the outer guns. It was also capable of carrying up to a max of 
1 x 1000lb bomb under each wing on strengthened wing hard points or a 
variety of other stores such as triple rocket tubes or drop tanks and 
if required could fly for a 1000 miles..
 
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               THE PILOT 2nd Lt. HENRY BROWN   
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              Top Ace of the 355th Fighter Group
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Henry Brown  a 355th FG pilot based at Steeple Morden England on his 
second tour was number four in the 354th Fighter Squadron's Blue 
Flight tasked with a Bombers Escort Mission to Berlin on 11/04/44. 

Having handed the escort role over to another Group targets of 
opportunity  were sought  on the home run.  Blue Flight attacked the 
Luftwaffe airfield at Strausber where 2nd Lt. Henry Brown wrecked a 
JU52 and JU88 in strafing runs and shot down a FW190 before his 
ammunition ran out. Alone he then climbed back to 15000 ft and tackled 
4 x 109's while out of ammunition which were about  to bounce 2 x P-51s. 
His outstanding skill and bravery for this action resulted in the award 
of the DSC to go with his Silver Star, multiple DFC's and Air Medals, 
and a Purple Heart. 

On 03/10/44 now a Captain he became a POW after being shot down by flak 
while strafing another airfield, his 14.2, air victories plus more than 
14 planes destroyed on the ground made him the 355th's top Ace. He 
continued his Service Career after the war as a Test Pilot and a 
Combat Pilot in Vietnam, rising  to Wing Commander, and Deputy Director 
of Operations, 7th Air Force before finally retiring as a Colonel 1974 
as one of the most decorated Air Force officers.
                             

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The epic air battle of 11/04/44 for which the DSC was awarded is 
described below:-

Thanks to the Air Force Magazine, Valor http://www.afa.org/index.html, 
June 1996, Vol. 79, No. 6, by John L. Frisbee, Contributing Editor 
Jerry Scutts, Mustang Aces of the Eighth Air Force, Osprey Publishing, 
1994  Edward Sims, American Aces Great Fighter Missions of W.W.II, 
Harper and Brothers, 1958 for material used in compiling this Readme 

June 1996, Vol. 79, No. 6 
By John L. Frisbee, Contributing Editor
Beating Four Aces

Lt. Henry Brown pulled off one of the most amazing bluffs of the war.

Lt. Henry Brown was on his second tour in fighters, based at Steeple 
Morden, UK, with the 355th Fighter Group. On the morning of April 11, 
1944, in his Hun Hunter From Texas, he was number four in the 354th 
Fighter Squadron's Blue Flight, escorting bombers to their target on 
the outskirts of Berlin.

After the bombers unloaded and headed for home, the 355th turned its 
escort duty over to another group and prepared to strafe targets of 
opportunity, the most dangerous of fighter tactics. The four squadrons 
fanned out, each to find its own targets. Blue Leader picked the 
Luftwaffe airfield at Strausberg to the east of Berlin. The four 
P-51s went down in a screaming 400-mph dive, their props cutting weeds 
as they came in over the field.

On the first pass, Lieutenant Brown burned a Ju-52, then riddled a 
Ju-88 bomber on his second pass. Spotting an FW-190 fighter taking off, 
he performed a chandelle to the left, pulling up behind the German 
fighter and shooting it down just as he ran out of ammunition. While 
Brown was busy reducing the Luftwaffe's inventory, the other three 
members of his flight had formed up and were on their way home.

Climbing to 15,000 feet, Lieutenant Brown saw four fighters in the 
distance, heading west. Maybe they were members of his group. 
As he closed on them, he discovered that they were Bf-109s--difficult 
to tell from P-51s at a distance. In perfect firing position but out 
of ammunition, he reduced power and slid into their blind spot at six 
o'clock low. Why had they not seen him? Then he spotted two Mustangs 
ahead and below. The -109s were so intent on hunting the Mustangs that 
they had not seen him.

Brown called a warning to the Mustangs, which broke sharply to the left
with the -109s now almost in firing range. He told the Mustang pilots 
he would try to disrupt the enemy formation. At that moment, the 
Luftwaffe pilots picked up on Brown as he closed on their tails, not 
knowing he was out of ammunition. Henry Brown didn't pause to calculate 
his chance of survival. He saw what needed to be done, and he did it.

There followed a 20-minute engagement in which Brown outturned his four 
adversaries, who held all the aces, forcing them one by one to roll out 
of a Lufbery circle and dive for the ground. While Lieutenant Brown 
hovered constantly on the verge of a high-G blackout, the two Mustangs 
he had saved disappeared to the west, leaving him alone in an 
unfriendly sky.

Having won the Lufbery fight against incalculable odds, Henry Brown 
throttled back and turned for home. In that moment of relaxation, one 
of the -109s climbed back up and got on his tail. Suddenly, Hun Hunter 
was taking hits. Fortunately, the Luftwaffe pilot overshot, giving 
Brown time to split-S to the treetops. His sigh of relief was 
short-lived. There were holes in his left wing, but more serious, 
his compass had been shot out. With no friendly aircraft around, he 
could only guess at the correct heading for England.

Brown called in the blind, giving his approximate position and asking 
someone to tell him the sun position on his canopy for a rough heading 
to the UK. At length, a voice came back, telling him to put the sun on 
the second screw from the top of his left canopy railing. Correcting 
his course, he realized he soon was going to be above solid-to-broken 
clouds. No more ground checks. At last, through a small break in the 
clouds, he saw the coast of Holland.

A call to Air-Sea Rescue got him a rough heading to Steeple Morden. 
From there, he got a home steer from Steeple Morden tower. Six hours 
and 15 minutes after takeoff, Henry Brown touched down at home plate. 
He found out later that the two Mustang pilots he had saved, and who 
apparently had deserted him, also had been out of ammunition.

For a day marked by superior skill and unsurpassed valor, Henry Brown 
was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to go with his Silver Star, 
multiple Distinguished Flying Crosses and Air Medals, and a Purple 
Heart. He tallied 11 more air-to-air victories, ending the war with 1
4.2, plus more than 14 planes destroyed on the ground. What his score 
might have been had he not been downed by flak while strafing an 
airfield on Oct. 3, 1944, is only conjecture.

On the day he bellied in, his squadron operations officer, Maj. Chuck 
Lenfest, landed to rescue him, but Lenfest's P-51 became stuck in soft 
ground. Lt. Alvin White also landed in an attempted rescue. The downed 
men were escaping and did not see him. White was able to take off and 
returned home alone. Brown and Lenfest ended the war as guests of the 
Luftwaffe.

Henry Brown remained in the Air Force, serving among other assignments 
as test pilot, combat pilot in Vietnam, wing commander, and deputy 
director of Operations, 7th Air Force. He retired as a colonel in 1974, 
one of the most decorated Air Force officers, and now lives in 
Sumter, S.C.


  
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CONTENTS:-

A Zip file containing a folder with the Model, Panel, Sound, Texture, 
cfg, and air files for CFS. A Jpg image of the P-51B, and this Readme 
Text Document

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CFS INSTALLATION :-
	
Extract the contents of the P-51B zip to a temporary
folder or to your desktop then place the P-51b folder into
the FS98 aircraft folder and its ready to fly.

The panel and sounds default to those of the Stock P51 but as for
all FS98 aircraft you may change/alias the files if required.  See the 
major sites for tutorials. 

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CONTROLS

As for FS98:- i.e. G toggles the Gear, L the lights, the cockpit side 
windows shuts at 130 Knots and opens when the speed falls below it.  
The glowing exhausts are linked to the throttle setting and Control 
plus L toggles the landing light and L the illuminated instrument 
panel and nav lights for use at night.  Toggling the / key enables the 
Drop Tanks to be dropped and recovered.  The virtual cockpit is an 
alternative to the normal viewpoint and is set above the left wing 
alongside the aircraft's cockpit/nose to give a Dramatic "Biggles " 
Comic Book Style perspective to Combat. (an alternative air file is 
also provided for those who prefer a more central centre line over 
the nose view).

Thanks to Abacus's AF 99 and KK's superb animator the aircraft has 
been built with moving control surfaces, flaps, U/C and prop.

Enjoy the flight, E,  R and T ALLEN 21/07/2000

http://www.duxford.legends.btinternet.co.uk
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