FS2004 Piedmont Airlines Martin 404

Piedmont Airlines textures for Dee Waldron's Martin 404 available at California Classics. These textures depict an Piedmont Martin 404 about 1962. By Gary Harper.

Copy the text below and paste in your aircraft config. file substituting your next consecutive [flightsim.__] number for "xx".

[fltsim.xx]
title=Martin 4-0-4 Piedmont
sim=M404-CB16
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=pi
kb_checklists=
kb_reference=M404_CB3_ref
prop_anim_ratio=1.76
atc_id=N40450
ui_manufacturer=Martin
ui_type=4-0-4 Skyliner
ui_variation=Piedmont airlines (CB-16)
description=The 4-0-4 Skyliner was the 1951 pressurised and stretched fuselage equivalent of the modified 2-0-2A having been extensively redesigned to compete with the pressurised and long established Convair CV-240. Pressurisation finally allowed the power of R-2800-CB16 engines to be exploited by TWA, but EAL intended to use the 4-0-4 only over short hauls away from mountains and so they specified the R-2800-CB3 engine with no high blower. This eventually became the engine in most 4-0-4s. The 1951 4-0-4 inherited structural flaws from the original 1947 2-0-2 and was still subject to significant restrictions when carrying a large payload. Although more than twice as successful as the unpressurised 2-0-2A the 4-0-4 was structurally inferior to the later CV-340 which appeared in 1952. Crucially the USAF, by far the largest purchaser of US manufactured propliners after WW2, continued to buy twin engined propliners only from Convair and production of the Martin 4-0-4 soon ended with only 101 in airline and USCG service.

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