This is meant to be an historical campaign, based on the carrier battles of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons (22-25 August 1942) and the Battle of Santa Cruz (25-27 October 1942. I named the campaign “Desperate Battles” because at this stage of the war the US Navy was fighting uphill. That is, they had fewer resources than the Japanese, in many ways inferior aircraft and less experienced pilots. In both battles, the Japanese are the attackers and the USN has to fight a defensive struggle. The dates, times and locations of each engagement (mission) are as close as possible to the actual ones. Ship names, locations and courses as well as aircraft numbers and types are as accurate as possible. Attack angles and targets are set up to give historical results, but you, the player can change history (slightly). The campaign consists of various missions; recon, strike, defensive and land based as well as carrier based. Random chance plays a big role in the numbers of defensive aircraft and in some cases, whether or not a target will be there at all. Call signs and aircraft skins however are not historical. Carrier task forces are set up to sail into a 15 knot wind on takeoff and landing. Using the alternate dps provided for the Usio ships and the FDG alternate files for US aircraft should make this campaign even more realistic and challenging.

Textures only for Long Island Classics Decathlon in N5504Y livery. The real one is stationed at Wellington Kansas. I took pictures to paint up at the monthly fly-in in Ponca City,OK. Works in fsx and 2004 versions.

CFS3 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 Nacht Jager. A standalone I edited from Tomas 'Bat' Oszlar's excellent skin with his permission. A bf_109g_6 painted as a night fighter as would be done in the field. Danke Tomas! Der Roger. 3.3MB

CFS2 Fokker VIII Landplane twin-engined floatplane, designed as torpedo bomber for the Dutch Navy. The first T.8 prototype flew in 1938. The aircraft entered production in 1939. After May 1940. This version (T-8L) was based on a unique pic of the prototype and there are no further information about it. Model and textures by Richard Alexander van Hien (Payakan). CFS2 conversion Pepe Rezende. 10.4MB

FS2004 Douglas DC-3 World Rally 2004 Default Textures. This is a repaint of the default DC-3 in a specially commissioned livery for the 2004 DC-3 World Rally, organised by the team at DC-3 Airways VA. Visit www.dc3airways.com for information about this exciting event, which runs from 15 October through 30 October 2004. Thereafter, you can keep this lovely lady as a souvenir of how well you flew! This livery is also available for the MAAM-SIM FS2004/FS2002 Passenger DC-3 as wr4_maam.zip. By Mark Beaumont, VP Fleet, DC-3 Airways. 535K

FAB AMX-TBR Embraer and Alenia have pooled their resources to develop and build the new AMX-T, a two-seat, single-engine jet trainer.Model & Texture: Denis da Silva. 276K

FS2002 PRO Beechcraft B1900D Zambian Airways Reg # 9J-MBO New Ver 6 design including Full Moving Parts and Night Effects. Designer: Barry Blaisdell Paint: Bob May Premier Aircraft Design. 223K

FS2002 PRO DHC6-300S Twin Otter Royal Nepal Airlines Reg_ID: 9N-ABP Fly through the Himalayan Mountains in this ALL NEW Rev 6 aircraft. A/C Design: Barry Blaisdell (PAD) FS2002 airfile by Steve Small (FSD). 179K

FS2004 Bellanca C-27 USAAC Textures only. Two real liveries for the military version to the Aircruiser. #18 with yellow tail and the #2 with blue tail. The Flying W, as it was commonly known, was originally designed as a commercial passenger aircraft, at which it showed great promise. But a decision by the FAA to require multiple engines on passenger aircraft doomed it. It went on to become a rugged and versatile bush plane, particularly in the Canadian wilderness.Textures only, requires original aircraft by Mike Stone here .Repainted by Jean-Jacques Parel. 400K

New paint scheme for the default Skyhawk. Repaint by Don Brynelsen using the paintkit by Mark Rooks.