FS2004 United Airlines Douglas DC-4

United Airlines Douglas DC-4 registration NC37534; textures only. From 1946 to 1961 United Airlines had 40 DC-4's in use. United used the DC4 on its trans continental route and was the last major US airline to have them in service. This is a repaint of Arik Hohmeyer's and Chris Grabow's FS2004 DC-4/C-54 (FS-Design Berlin) by Dale DeLuca. Requires DC44PAA.ZIP or another base DC-4 of FS-Design Berlin.

Installation in FS2004:

1. Unpack/extract the file into a temporary folder.
2. Copy the texture.2un5 folder into the main folder of your Base DC-4 (PanAm) folder (or another base DC-4 of FS-Design Berlin).
3. Open the aircraft.cfg file of your Base DC-4 and add the following text:

[fltsim.1]
title=Douglas DC-4 United Airlines
sim=DC-4-2
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=2un5
checklists=
ui_manufacturer=Douglas
ui_type=DC-4
ui_variation=United Airlines (50s livery)
description=Douglas DC-4, United Airlines registration NC37534.\nThe DC-4 was first designed and placed\ninto service during World War II. \nUnited Airlines used 40 DC-4 from 1946 to 1961.\nRepainted by Dale DeLuca\nDate: October 2003 \nModel Version AP 6.6c
atc_heavy=0
atc_id=NC37534
atc_airline=UNITED
atc_flight_number=534
atc_id_color=0000000000
visual_damage=0

Please make sure: if you have already installed other texture versions of the DC-4, the numbering of [fltsim.1] must be adapted. For example: [fltsim.2], [fltsim.3] ...

Base Design: Arik Hohmeyer (with FS Design Studio 1.6)

FSDS2 Rework (with FSDS2 2.20 and Aircraft Container Manager): Chris Grabow.

Textures: Arik Hohmeyer.

Airfile (flight dynamic): Based on Brian Horsey, modified by Wolfram Beckert, reworked for FS2004 by Guenter Kirschstein.

Technical support & data search: Chris Grabow, Dieter Ramthun.

Special thanks to:

• Brian Horsey whose flightdynamic was a fantastic base for our flightmodel.,
• Wolfram Beckert who testet and fundamentally improved the flightdynamic.,
• Guenter Kirschstein who revised the FDE for FS2004.,
• Michael Vader, James Underwood and Dave Haskell for their excellent DC-4 panels.
• Dale DeLuca, who made a lot of very nice repaints of classic liveries for our C-54/DC-4 and who beta-tested this FSDS2 version.
• Ulf Nordin from FS Lulea-Kallax who provided us with a lot of webspace and who beta-tested this FSDS2 version.
• Dieter Ramthun (of the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation), who helped us to answer some questions on technical details of the C-54.

Complementing Files & Dependencies

This add-on mentions the following files below in its description. It may be dependent on these files in order to function properly. It's possible that this is a repaint and the dependency below is the base package.

You may also need to download the following files:

• dc44paa.zip

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