GRUMMAN F4F WILDCAT COCKPIT instrument panel CDkit

Description

GRUMMAN
F4F
Wildcat
CDkit is a collection of Museum quality Aircraft Cockpit Instrument Panel and Avionic Graphics on Computer Disk.
CDkit is Designed for Aircraft Fabricators, Collectors, Publishers, Developers, and Radio Control aircraft.
CDkit is presented in Professional PNG picture format for superior printed results on paper, metal foil, fabric, or film.
Especially fine LIFE SIZE décor can be obtained with
back lighted architectural Mylar.
EASY – one step, no stress, print and ready.
AUTHENTIC – researched from actual aircraft and original designs.
PRECISION – correct 3
⅛ and
2
¼ inch analog gauges including:
Sperry Mk II Horizon and MkIA DG;
Kollsman C12 ALT and Kollsman ASI;
Pioneer A17/AF T&B and AAN13/A VSI;
Elgin standard and USN 8 day clocks;
Maxwell Manning MP, GE fuel gauge;
Bendix RMI, and BA5675 CHT;
Weston B-6A fuel / air ratio for F4F3
plus N3C Guadalcanal Army gun sight,
and USN Mk8 gun sight.
WHAT YOU GET
F4F3 Wildcat
F4F4 Wildcat
FM2 Wildcat
LIFE SIZE Instrument Panel can be printed by a professional printer onto 24 inch wide CAD standard roll, or D (24x36), or E (36x48 inches).
Radio Control / scale can be printed with your home printer.
LIFE SIZE and SCALE in inches
Professional printer
Home printer
TYPE
LIFE SIZE
1/4 SCALE
1/5 SCALE
1/6 SCALE
1/7 SCALE
F4F3
38.0
9.5
7.6
6.3
5.4
F4F4
38.0
9.5
7.6
6.3
5.4
FM2
38.0
9.5
7.6
6.3
5.4
RC SCALE:
Jerry Bates F4F Wildcat with about 90 inch wing span is about 1/5 scale.
Measure the instrument panel space width of your aircraft. The fuselage of most RC aircraft seem to be a little fat, adjust cockpit panels to fit.
FINE SCALE:
Print LIFE SIZE PNG file onto 35mm (24x36mm, about 1½ inches wide) slide film.
A 35 inch wide panel printed full frame = about 1/24 scale, 2/3 frame = about 1/32 scale, and ½ frame = about 1/48 scale. Hi-white the back and install. The detail is there, but you’ll need a magnifier to see it.
Use this ratio to tailor panel fit:
Trumpeter F4F3 (early non folding wing version, Wake & Guadalcanal) in 1/32 scale.
FLIGHT SIMULATORS:
LIFE SIZE analog gauge backgrounds designed to work with Flight Simulators
You also get:
+ GRUMMAN F4F Wildcat
LIFE SIZE analog gauge background graphics without pointers for LIFE SIZE Grumman cockpit instrument panel developers.
+ LIFE SIZE ANALOG REFERENCE SET
– over 300 international gauge face graphics (with pointers) can be printed with your home printer
+ LIFE SIZE AUXILIARY REFERENCE SET
– about 100 side panel component graphics etc – home printer
+ LIFE SIZE DISPLAY REFERENCE SET
– about 50 items – gun-sights, HUD, MFD, etc - home printer.
F4F Wildcat
:
slower, less maneuverable than Zero, but Marine tough. Most Wildcats had R1830-86 Twin Wasp with 3-blade variable-pitch Curtiss Electric propeller. First F4F3s had 2x telescopic sight; replaced in 1941 by deflector Mk8 gunsight – and stayed thru F4F4 and FM2.
F4F3
– fixed wings, but light. Wake Island to Guadalcanal: Wake: Henry Elrod crippled DD Kisaragi. Rabaul; Butch O'Hare shot down 5x G4M1 Bettys and was memorialized by Chicago’s airport. Coral Sea – Wildcats inflicted heavy losses on the air groups from Shokaku, Zuikaku and covered Americans to sink Shoho. At Midway and Guadalcanal, F4F3s were preferred over the more available, but heavier F4F4s
F4F4
– Midway until late 1943 when replaced by F6F Hellcat. Santa Cruz - ‘Swede’ Vejtasa used the Jimmy ‘Thach weave.’ Lt James Swett USMC shot down 8 Vals on one mission. Guadalcanal Cactus aces: Joe Foss, Marion Carl, John L. Smith, Richard Galer, Joe Bauer were top Marine aces.
FM2
1944 through 45: with its Wright 1,350-hp was a ‘Hot Cat’ built by General Motors. FM2 had a little more fuel and aux tanks, was 350 lbs lighter than F4F4, and carried HVARs. FM2s worked with TBF Avengers at Samar to aid US DDs in disrupting an overwhelming Japanese battleship TF. FM2s covered every landing from Marianas through Iwo Jima to Okinawa.
FM2s are credited with over 400 kamikaze kills.
BUYING
Read description and study all pictures carefully.
What you see is exactly what you get.
Ask any questions before buying.
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