De Havilland Dh88 Comet "Black and Gold"
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This is a repaint of the default FS2004 De Havilland Dh88 Comet. G-ACSS Grosvenor House was acquired by the Air Ministry and painted aluminum. It got the RAF serial K-5084. During the tests at the RAF at Martlesham it twice suffered a collapsed undercarriage. After the first collapse it was fitted with enlarged air intakes. After the second crash in September 1936 it was sold as scrap.

These paint's are a purely fictional representation of K-5084 if they had been trialled for other roles in the RAF. Versions included are Night and Trainer Yellow.

Installation
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Unzip the 'texture._ABk' & 'texture._AY' folders to your 'DeHavilland Comet' folder within the aircraft folder of FS9's root folder. This typically resides in your 'Program Files' folder of your C: drive, but may differ depending where you installed FS2004.

Then edit the aircraft.cfg adding the following lines just after other very similar entries...


[fltsim.xx]
title=de Havilland Comet K5084 Night
sim=DeHavilland_Comet
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=_ABk
kb_checklists=DeHavilland_Comet_check
kb_reference=DeHavilland_Comet_ref
atc_id=K5084
atc_id_color=0x00ffffff
ui_manufacturer=de Havilland
ui_type="DH-88 'Comet'"
ui_variation="G-ACSS, RAF K5084 Night"
description="G-ACSS Grosvenor House was acquired by the Air Ministry and painted aluminum. It got the RAF serial K-5084. During the tests at the RAF at Martlesham it twice suffered a collapsed undercarriage. After the first collapse it was fitted with enlarged air intakes. After the second crash in September 1936 it was sold as scrap. Fictional Night scheme"
atc_heavy=0
atc_id_font=Verdana,-11,1,600,0
visual_damage=1

[fltsim.xx]
title=de Havilland Comet K5084 Pink
sim=DeHavilland_Comet
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=_AY
kb_checklists=DeHavilland_Comet_check
kb_reference=DeHavilland_Comet_ref
atc_id=K5084
atc_id_color=0x00ffffff
ui_manufacturer=de Havilland
ui_type="DH-88 'Comet'"
ui_variation="G-ACSS, RAF K5084 Trainer Yellow"
description="G-ACSS Grosvenor House was acquired by the Air Ministry and painted aluminum. It got the RAF serial K-5084. During the tests at the RAF at Martlesham it twice suffered a collapsed undercarriage. After the first collapse it was fitted with enlarged air intakes. After the second crash in September 1936 it was sold as scrap. Fictional Trainer Yellow"
atc_heavy=0
atc_id_font=Verdana,-11,1,600,0
visual_damage=1


Be sure to edit the first lines 'XX' to the next sequential number.

All being well you should be able to fly her.



Support
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Being as you downloaded this from the very fine SimOuthouse, you'll also find me there. Drop a PM or ask a question in the FS2004 forum, I'll do what I can to help.

This repaint was mainly for my own enjoyment, part of a project to cover all schemes of real life Comets, time will tell if I get them all done. Being so, they are not 100% accurate, due to limited research available and (mainly) the texture mapping of the FS2004 model. On the latter point, artistic license has been taken with best judgement. I did my best.

If you are a 'rivet counter', I'm not interested, go paint your own!! If not and have some info or useful feedback, I'm all ears.



Credits
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Microsoft = original model & paints.
Me = this paint (based on MS base textures)
This particular site was indispensable
	http://www.xs4all.nl/~tozu/dh88/index.htm
Many thanks, a great resource.

Also this place for being what it is...
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/

The SimOuthouse for being my second home, and it's members for being my extended family.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/index.php


Disclaimer
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Use of these files is entirely at your own risk, I take no responsibility for any damage caused. On my part, these files have been scanned with the most up-to-date version of Norton 2011 at the time of publish. If you found these files other than at the SimOuthose I cannot vouch for them, nor guarantee they have not been altered.




Jamie
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JDTinballs @ SOH