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[Dreamk]

The main aircraft of the French Aeronavale in the late thirties was the Levasseur PL10 and its evoluition the PL101.
Both planes implemented the classical Levasseur concept of "boat plane" - the fuselage was built so that in case of malfunction while flying over the sea, the plane could jettison its landing gear (here press the Gear down key to do that) and land on the sea. However, subsequent  take off was impossible as the propeller got damaged in the process. Try it, it's quite fun.
I made this mod using original plans from Levasseur company and some quite good photographs of the cockpit and instruments panel
Two things remain to be done on this plane:
1) ask a java guru what stands behind the behaviour of the gear when jettisonned - I took the java method from the Ju87C and don't really like the  result - in reality the gear was not destroyed but dropped in  a single unit - maybe it would have been better and easier to model it as a dummy fuel drop tank, but I had a number of reasons not to do so.
2) add to the armament options the smoke screen pots - I made the meshes but need to copy the java from the smoke screens pots I made from the US ordnance pack - once again just lazyness behind that 

As usual you'll need the new French Arms pack:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/uoq2dykiucptxz0/_Arms_French_1918_1943.7z/file
and these files too
https://www.mediafire.com/file/q0rycxpqvqgodse/!Interwar+French+Machine+Guns.7z/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lppb53xhy48ujer/!French+Torpedo+and+Racks.7z/file


Links for the planes:
PL101
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ufa4dz6i9psa1nk/Levasseur+PL101+v1.0.7z/file
PL10
https://www.mediafire.com/file/b3u6dhtimqui7eu/Levasseur+PL10+v1.0.7z/file

Air.ini additions:
Levasseur_PL10     air.PL10 1                            NOINFO  f01   SUMMER
Levasseur_PL101     air.PL101 1                            NOINFO  f01   SUMMER

Feel free to finalize and upgrade this plane where needed.
Enjoy

The planes have been tested in 4.122 modact 5.30, so will probably run smoothly also in BAT

[David Prosser]

I've made single missions for these two. I'll put them on M4T when there are skins available. Thanks for making them.



cheers


David

[Dreamk]

BTW These planes were still serving in May 1940 for coastal reconnaissance tasks.

[jeanba]

good !!!!

[DESPEREAUX]

Hi Dreamk!
I decided to improve your template for Levasseur PL10 a little here.
This is the first time I've done this ..
https://www.mediafire.com/file/sv4ew1yx1nwv4xw/Levasseur+PL10_Template.7z/file

[Dreamk]

  Thanks a lot! Every improvement is always welcome. 

[Vasya]

Already rewrote fm for this interesting aircraft. 

[SAS~Poltava]

Just a general observation: really makes me happy to see that there is a lot of fixing and improving going on with different mods, mods that very really good in the first place but now have different small bugs and problems ironed out. (The hive is at work!) I think this is a good sign, showing that modded IL-2 reaching a sort of maturity, perfection even. Thank you all you guys (like Vasya and Despereaux) for pitching in, and doing things like this!

We have never had it this good!