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 2 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.

Tresco Heliport for FSX only. Tresco is an island in the Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the coast of Cornwall, UK. The heliport on Tresco takes flights to and from Penzance Heliport on the mainland and St. Mary's Airport on the Isles. Includes grass helipad, 2 vehicles and 2 buildings. Easy to intall, with intructions in the read-me. 883KB. By Jay Heath.

FIX for the Cattaneo F-35A 51 Stormo - miss fuel tank texture and correct thumbnail.

Instrument panel for Bristol Blenheim (CFS2) Panel graphic by Kerry Livgren - based on a Blenheim cockpit photo. gauges are stock Place bmp's and cfg file in appropriate aircraft panel folder This panel is pretty accurate and should give you a good feel for what it was like to sit in a Blenheim The gauge layout is somewhat different to accomidate CFS2 Kerry Livgren. 492K

CFS1 Coquelles, Pas de Calais German landing strip. Created by Wolfgang Grünewald. 596K

Boeing (Stearman) PT-17 Kaydet Splash Screen. Incredible inverted flight over Meigs runway. This splash screen should be used with the FS2002 Splash Screen Randomizer - "SSR" by Dreamfleet2000. You can get this free utility from http://www.dreamfleet2000.com/Downloads/SSR.html. by Jose J.Ortega A. 258K

FS2004 Santos Dumont´s Historic Flights Challenge. Commemoration of 2006 Centennial of airplane flight, we make this challenges showing the early aviation flights achieved by Brazilian Santos Dumont at present year (2006) in the dates of the original flights. by Ralph Cafure Bolssonaro. 120K Alternative panels and dynamics for aircraft required in this challenge. Recomended for realistic peformance of the aircraft and historic accuracy. by Ralph Cafure Bolssonaro. 704K

FS98 Canadian Armed Forces MD CF-18A Hornet MD CF-18A 1999 Air Show 75th Annv of RCAF Paint Scheme, Number 188718. This airplane represents the CF-18A used in 1999 Airshows across North America. It is from #4 Wing - 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron (Cougar Squadron) located in Cold Lake, Alberta. Repaint/design by Peter Behring including moving flaps/gear, removal of drop tank/sidewinders for realism in airshows. Orig:B.Arnett, 2nd:I.Tahvanainen,and D.Mrawek. 1.7MB

FS 2004 Fuerza Aerea Venezolana Rockwell T-2D Buckeye 0048 EAM Textures only. The Rockwell T-2D Buckeye was widely used in multi-roll operations, as advanced trainer in the FAV, at the Military Aviation School, (EAM), forming fighter pilots, for aerobatics team and finally as a combat fighter. This aircraft were in the FAV from 1972 untill 2000, when it were retired from service. This aircraft 0048 was a part of the Military Aviation School,(EAM) at training group N° 14,with its home in Mariscal Sucre Air Base, Maracay, Aragua State. Original model and master textures by Kazunori Ito. Original camouflage pattern (GAF) by Leonidas Theofilopoulos. Requires model file t2c_342.zip and t2cpanel.zip by Kazunori Ito (here). By Juan Ernesto Oropeza. 861K

FS2002 PRO DeHavilland DHC6-300 Twin Sea Otter Air Tindi Reg# C-FGOG Air Tindi operates six Twin Otters on wheels, floats and skis, from their base in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories of Canada. Ver 6 with new FS8 Pro FD, Full Moving Parts, Night Effects and more. Design: Barry Blaisdell Paint: Bob May Premier Aircraft Design. 288K