FS2004 TWA Martin 404 Textures

These textures depict Dee Waldron's TWA Martin 404 in the white livery about 1959. 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 TWA
sim=M404-CB16
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=tww
kb_checklists=
kb_reference=M404_CB16_ref
prop_anim_ratio=1.76
atc_id=N40427
atc_airline=TWA
atc_flight_number=401
ui_manufacturer=Martin
ui_type=4-0-4 Skyliner
ui_variation=Trans World 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. 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 commercially and 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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