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[Bee]

Funny you should mention that.  I'm currently enjoying the excellent book written by HSL107's wireless operator. 

http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=1206

[Liz W]

Hi guys, thanks for the info re the Beaufort and Lt Strever. My Dad was in RAF Air Intelligence in Malta during the war and I'm going through all his stuff. Found photo of the Cant in St Paul's Bay and one of all the 4 Beaufort crew plus the 5 prisoners with arms around each other as if they were all old mates. His description was a bit sparce but with a bit of help from Google found this forum and your excellent description of events. Thanks for filling in the missing gaps

[Mick]

Welcome aboard Liz ...! 

If you please, you can post the pics you found to illustrate that incredible story ... 

I found a much more detailed story here :

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/archive/index.php?t-16818.html

... this also

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Out of these gallant Beaufort attacks came a unique event in the air war in which two New
 Zealand wireless operator-gunners took full share. On 29 July 1942 Sergeants A. R. Brown32
and J. A. Wilkinson33 flew with their South African pilot and English navigator in an attack on
one merchant vessel and two destroyers off Sapienza in Southern Greece. The pilot, Lieutenant
E. T. Strever, fired his torpedoes at short range at the merchant vessel, since that was invariably
the prime target, but his aircraft was badly hit in the starboard engine, which eventually failed,
forcing him to land in the sea. Although the Beaufort sank within ninety seconds, the crew were
able to climb into their dinghy and paddle towards the coast. Presently an Italian Cant Z506
float-plane alighted about 100 yards away. The South African lieutenant swam over to it, and
was courteously received with brandy and cigarettes as he explained in pantomime what had happened.
The rest of the crew were taken aboard, and the three-engined float-plane taxied
 laboriously to a nearby island. Here they were given the use of the officers' mess for the rest of
the day and were treated to an excellent dinner and a lively party in the evening. In the morning
 photographs were taken and the Cant set course for Taranto. The crew consisted of first and
second pilot, engineer, and wireless operator-observer, the escort being one Italian corporal carrying
a revolver. Shortly before the flight began our men had discussed the possibility of capturing the
 aircraft. Sergeant Wilkinson was the first to see an opportunity. He was sitting facing the Italian
observer, behind whom sat the escort with his revolver at his waist. Attracting the observer's
attention, he hit him heavily on the jaw, jumped over him and seized the astonished escort's revolver.
Passing this to Lieutenant Strever, Wilkinson moved toward the Italian pilot using the Corporal as a
shield. Strever followed behind Wilkinson, brandishing the revolver at the pilot, who attempted to draw
his own and to put the aircraft down on the water. Threatened again by the Lieutenant, he levelled out
 the aircraft and submitted to capture. Meanwhile the English observer and Sergeant Brown trussed up
 the remaining Italians, and the South African took over the controls.


But the crew was now faced with the difficulty of flying a strange three-engined aircraft, besides
being without maps or charts and having little knowledge of their geographical position. The Italian
second-pilot was put in the pilot's seat and a rough course set for Malta. At length they recognised
 the toe of Italy, and although there was no way of gauging the amount of petrol left, they determined
 to try again for Malta. Finally the island was sighted, but the worst moment of the whole sortie came
when three Spitfires attacked as the Cant flew in at sea level. Brown spun the guns about as the
recognised signal to show the fighters that he was not going to fire, and the navigator waved his white
 singlet out of the cockpit, but the Spitfires still attacked, and when one of the wings was hit by
cannon and machine-gun fire, the Italian second-pilot was ordered to come down on the sea. As the
aircraft touched down the engines stopped for lack of petrol. Subsequently the party was towed into
Malta, where the Cant aircraft was put to good use on air-sea rescue duties. The South African
lieutenant felt in honour bound to supervise personally the Italians' comfort as the least return for their
hospitality. The captured crew cheerfully accepted the situation, although they had in fact been
proceeding on leave to the mainland, and one even produced from his suitcase a bottle of wine. It was
with mixed feelings that the Royal Air Force crew later heard a Spitfire pilot claim in the Mess to have
 shot down an enemy float- plane.

[stebas.]

I'm sorry but I can not install the mod Beaufort on my DBW 1.71. The system crash at 70% loading.
Then I proceeded as follows:
1 ) I downloaded the file " Beaufort_412for409_FLY.7z
2 ) I copied all the rows from the "readme" file , respectively in air.ini , plane.ru and weapon.ru
3) I copied the folders " 01_Weapons_USA_GB ", " 06_Beaufort_412for409_FLY " in DBW
4) I copied the three folders with skins in the Skins>>>Paintschemes
5 ) I copied the file " 294ABC86A89FAEB4 " in the folder " 06_Beaufort_412for409_FLY "
6 ) At this point I launched IL2 1.71 DBW getting the crash to 70%
So, not being sure of what is the button that I am using ( SAS/UV2/UV3 ? ) I replaced the default BFORT_FM with the other BFORT_FM contained in the folder " _FM_409_buttons UV2_UV3 ."
So I run again IL2 DBW 1.71 , but the system always crashes at 70%.
I inform you to have already successfully installed other aircraft such as Ba mod 65 , BR 20 , RO 37 Breguet XIX, 24 PZL etc ... without problems.
Help! ? I do not know what to do ...

[Epervier]

This Mod brings the "409" icon.
I nowhere mentions that it is compatible 410 and above.
I would say nothing more.

I hope that a user 410 (UP3/DBW/HSFX) can help you.

[stebas.]

Agracier wrote:

I've installed it in DBW (essentially  a 4.10 install). And it works like a charm.
Download the flyable version, add the lines to the air.ini as usual.
Copy the Bristol Beaufort folder to #DBW
and then - here is the part necessary for 4.10 to work:
copy the one single file from your Diff_FM mod folder (in my install the folder is named: '00_PAL-AutoDiff'), into the Bristol Beaufort folder. In my install/version the file inside 00_PAL-AutoDiff has the following name:
294ABC86A89FAEB4
Copy the above into your Bristol Beaufort folder ... then boot up and take it for a flight ...

so, despite having seen the label 4.09, I thought it might go well for the 4.10 (1.71 DBW) ...

[David Prosser]

Thanks, that worked a treat. Now they will be appearing in a mission.

cheers

David

[dotmatrix]

Works just fine in 4.11.....

[Jim_diGris]

Hi Guys,
How to use it in my #DBW installation?
Will it work at all?
Thanks in advance.

I've installed it in DBW (essentially  a 4.10 install). And it works like a charm.

Download the flyable version, add the lines to the air.ini as usual.
Copy the Bristol Beaufort folder to #DBW

and then - here is the part necessary for 4.10 to work:

copy the one single file from your Diff_FM mod folder (in my install the folder is named: '00_PAL-AutoDiff'), into the Bristol Beaufort folder. In my install/version the file inside 00_PAL-AutoDiff has the following name:

294ABC86A89FAEB4

Copy the above into your Bristol Beaufort folder ... then boot up and take it for a flight ...

HELP!!! I am running DBW build 1.171 which was working perfectly but now I'm getting a CTD at 60%, I followed these instructions to the letter and it crashes, the only thing different is 294ABC86A89FAEB4 was in my #DBW\XTD folder.

Please help!

[BartheFr]

Did you copy 294ABC86A89FAEB4 file in "06__Beaufort_412for409_FLY" folder ?
The good flight model is in "_FM_409_buttons SAS" folder.

[Epervier]

I do not provide any assistance to the not-Rebels ...
But I do not understand why you add this DiffFM to your DBW!
Traditionally it is stated that DBW already includes a DiffFM  and that should not change it!

[Jim_diGris]

Did you copy 294ABC86A89FAEB4 file in "06__Beaufort_412for409_FLY" folder ?
The good flight model is in "_FM_409_buttons SAS" folder.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. I copied the 294ABC86A89FAEB4 file into the "06__Beaufort_412for409_FLY" folder, ctd at 60%. Copied the BFORT_FM file from the  "_FM_409_buttons SAS" folder into the "06__Beaufort_412for409_FLY" folder, also ctd after 60%