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[SAS~CirX]

CW21 Placeholder Cockpit by CirX

Such an interesting plane I just had to. I used a russian cockpit and just fucked with it. The canopy opens from the outside but not from the inside, and I am not fixing that. Proud of the gunsight I am.
Enjoy it.



Some history form our friend the Wikipedia:

The Curtiss-Wright Model 21 (also known as the Curtiss-Wright Model 21 Demonstrator, the Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Interceptor, the Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Demon) was a United States-built interceptor fighter aircraft, developed by the St. Louis Airplane Division of Curtiss-Wright Corporation during the 1930s.

The first sale of the CW-21 Demon in 1939, was to the Chinese Air Force, which received three completed examples and kits for 32 more. Assembly would be undertaken by the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO) located in Loiwing on the China-Burma border. These were armed with one 0.3 and one 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns. Three CW-21s were furnished to the Chinese as kits, assembled in Loiwing, and delivered to the 1st American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers). These crashed in poor visibility on a flight from Rangoon to Kunming on 23 December 1941.[2]

In 1940, The Netherlands ordered 24 examples of a modified version designated the CW-21B (together with a number of two-seat CW-22), for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Military Aviation (Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger; ML-KNIL).[citation needed]

The modifications consisted of inward retracting landing gear, a semi-retractable tail wheel, two each 0.3 and 0.5 in (7.62 and 12.7 mm) machine guns, and a slightly larger fuel tank. These changes gained an 8 mph (13 km/h) speed increase at sea level.[citation needed]

Deliveries started in June 1940, but only 17 had been received by Vliegtuigroep IV, Afdeling 2 (No. 2 Squadron, Air Group IV; 2-VLG IV), when war with Japan began on December 8, 1941. With its rudimentary pilot protection, lack of self-sealing fuel tanks and light construction, the CW-21B was not unlike the opposing Japanese planes. It had similar firepower to the Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar", but worse than the cannon-armed A6M Zero. Its climb rate was far better than either. Squadron VLG IV claimed four aerial victories during the Netherlands East Indies campaign but the ML-KNIL was overwhelmed by the sheer number of Japanese adversaries, and all were soon lost in combat or destroyed on the ground

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So daar het jy dit, gaan skiet daai japsnoete af!!!

S! to TD & MG!
CirX
 

[4./JG53_Badger]

CirX,
 Outstanding job my friend....You guys here at SAS are out passing the others by a landslide....Everytime I come back to this site you guys have another download for me to add to my game...Big Thanks to and the gang....Salute

[Jabo]

The one I was looking for, many thanx!

[TinyTim]

Excellent choice!

Thanks a bunch!

[Fryslanboy]

Geweldig!!

[Ranwers]

Cool ! Thanks

[michel_boonstra1974]

Wow, didn't expect to fly this lovely little fighter so soon.. A great addon for the Dutch East Indies missions. Thank you so much!

[CoolBreeze]

Said with an authoritative, deep-sounding announcer's voice, "Best placeholder cockpit ever".  Cheers!

[Riptide_One]

CirX,

Thank you for making this little gem flyable! Excellent cockpit! Love the gunsight!

Cheers,

Riptide

[5./JG54_s0crazty]

Many Thanks Cirx ,

[GerritJ9]

The ML CW-21Bs were actually fitted with four .30s, not two .50s and two .30s. Curtiss-Wright strongly advised the ML to fit at least two .50s, but the ML insisted on four .30s.
The reason (which I only found out recently) was that although the NEI could make both .30 and .50 ammunition, the percussion caps made in the NEI for the .50s were not reliable enough to be approved for guns firing through the prop circle, sometimes suffering from delays in firing the round. The NEI-made percussion caps for the .30s, on the other hand, were reliable enough. Hence the four .30s for the Interceptor, and the two fuselage-mounted .30s on the ML Brewsters and the Hawk 75A-7s. The Hawk 75A-7s had originally been delivered by Curtiss with two wing-mounted .30s, plus one .30 and one .50 mounted in the fuselage. However, the .50 was replaced by a fourth .30 in the NEI because of the .50 percussion cap problem. 

[SAS~CirX]

The ML CW-21Bs were actually fitted with four .30s, not two .50s and two .30s. Curtiss-Wright strongly advised the ML to fit at least two .50s, but the ML insisted on four .30s.
The reason (which I only found out recently) was that although the NEI could make both .30 and .50 ammunition, the percussion caps made in the NEI for the .50s were not reliable enough to be approved for guns firing through the prop circle, sometimes suffering from delays in firing the round. The NEI-made percussion caps for the .30s, on the other hand, were reliable enough. Hence the four .30s for the Interceptor, and the two fuselage-mounted .30s on the ML Brewsters and the Hawk 75A-7s. The Hawk 75A-7s had originally been delivered by Curtiss with two wing-mounted .30s, plus one .30 and one .50 mounted in the fuselage. However, the .50 was replaced by a fourth .30 in the NEI because of the .50 percussion cap problem.

cool info. thanx!