FSX Handley Page Halton. A number of former RAF Halifax C.8s were sold from 1945 and used as freighters by a number of mainly British airlines. In 1948, the air freight market was in decline but 41 civil aircraft were used in the Berlin Air Lift operating a total of 4,653 sorties carrying freight and 3,509 carrying bulk diesel fuel. Nine aircraft were lost during the airlift. As the aircraft returned to England most civil Halifaxes were scrapped; the last civilian-operated Halifaxes were withdrawn from service in late 1952. The Low-cost airline business pioneer Freddie Laker bought and serviced war surplus Halifaxes for Bond Air Services operations in the Berlin airlift In the immediate post WW II period the newly formed national airlines found themselves in dire need of long range aircraft which were simply not available. As a result, ex-bombers, such as the Avro Lancaster and Handley Page Halifax were converted for civilian use. Although some 90 or so H.P.Halifaxes would eventually be civilianized, the first 10 (for BOAC) were converted by Short Brother and Harland Ltd at Belfast.Ten passengers were carried in fairly comfortable,but noisy acommodations. The ex-bombers were not used very long, as Constellations, DC-4s and the like became available. Installation: ============== -Unzip " Halton" into a temporary file and move the "Halton" folder into the main Aircraft directory. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -Read instructions carefully when installing the gauges , say YES...when asked if the gauges sources should be trusted. If you say no....most of the gauges are not going to work ! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -Leave all gauges.cab in your panel folder. -For best looks in FSX normal, use prop.bmp from FS2004prop file. CREDITS ======= Special thanks to : -Alphasim for a magnificent freeware FEATURES: ========= 1) External Animations crew hatch : shift-e 2) Light switches three are mousable light switches for Navigation / Landing lights (main panel, centre) and cockpit internal lighting (on overhead panel).in the v-c view, you can click and drag the following levers - throttle / prop pitch / undercarriage raise/lower, flaps extend/retract. 3)shift-e : raises/lowers pilot's armrest in cockpit SOUNDS: ======= The default DC-3 sounds are used. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION ===================== These files are freeware. Please amend/distribute as you see fit. They are unsupported, so please do not e-mail us if you have problems. Under no circumstances may these files be sold or uploaded to a payware site. All rights reserved - AlphaSim 2008 WWW.ALPHASIM.CO.UK alphasim1@alphasim.co.uk LEGAL: ====== The project is released as freeware. You may modify it and repaint it. You may upload this file to another website as long as it is not for profit. You need the written permission of the original authors to use any of these files for commercial purposes, otherwise a simple credit would be nice. Non commercial repaints-remakes are welcome but I would appreciate very much receiving a copy of your model. This file should not cause any problems with your computer, but I accept no responsibility if you think it does Happy Landings! A.F.Scrub December 2013 Email: af_scrubbypc@hotmail.com