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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger (Post 150272)

Well if airspeed is anything to go by I assumed the extra 2 engines were constantly in reverse on the TB-3!

In fact I distinctly remember a mission on SOV where a person drove his TB-3 overland across the map and parked it on the enemy airfield and swapped to the gunner positions.

In the chat I think he said it was faster that way! Anyway I thought it was an excelent ploy and he got 100% for creativity!

Cheers and thanks, I'ld completely forgotten.

...And to think that fighter/attack variants were proposed - including one prototype built with three 76mm cannons (forward firing).

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Originally Posted by Avimimus (Post 150407)

I was thinking it might be ideal to move the 4.10 updates to early on Thursday or to Wednesday (or perhaps even post them later during the weekend).

Right now we get a double hit -thursday night 4.10 updates- and -friday morning SoW:BoB updates- which I'm sure isn't healthy for those of use easily excited ;)

Gee ...I hope you guys didn't take my advice ;) :D

regret

Going by the published schedule, the next patch is due in less than two weeks, so any 'updates' would be rather late, I'd have thought - they've told us what to expect by now.

At least, that's what I'm hoping. I could be wrong, and they are currently adding a Lancaster, a Whirlwind, another 57 versions of the Bf 109, a fully-animated dog for 'Dam Busters' missions (though they will have to rename it;) ), a 'Gremlin' option that recalibrates your altimeter while you aren't looking, and an option to go online with Silent Hunter 5 players so you can drop bombs on their U-boats while they run around trying to get the crew to do something useful (this last option will probably be scrapped as nobody can get SH5 to work anyway).

Hopefully still a Thursday somewhere in the Pacific. Today update posted on first page.

"We are entering the beta phase of the 4.10 patch, so we will reduce the quantity of development updates and focus on the testing of the patch."

We understand
but your updates are similar to a drug :D !!!

Ah yes, I was certain there would be delays (history is often an indicator of the future, after all :) ). The large amounts of great things to come in 4.10 is bitter sweet: the awesome parts are, well, awesome, but it makes the wait more of a tease than if it was a minor patch.

Only yesterday did I see the update about radio navigation and major upgrades to cockpit instruments regarding navigation. I found the 500mb version video showcasing those functions too. This is the most exciting thing to come, with the new chassi stress and individual propeller pitch on axis (aaand radiator on a single axis).

Navigation improvements will make it both easier yet more complicated to navigate on full realism settings. Since most flying, even online, is not being engaged in combat but just getting from A to B, this should make those journeys so much more interesting. Interesting to learn that the German heavy fighters actually get a radio compass with moving AF Antenna (not sure where that antenna is located on the aircraft) which the single engined fighters have to do without.

A delay .. who cares .. quality need it`s time.. and those pics are damn great.. never expectect
TD to appear and give il2 new life.. so do what you want and how long you want just keep it coming !

Thank you very much!!!!!
:grin:

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Originally Posted by MikkOwl (Post 150521)

Interesting to learn that the German heavy fighters actually get a radio compass with moving AF Antenna (not sure where that antenna is located on the aircraft) which the single engined fighters have to do without.

Well the antenna movement isn't animated. Probably not worth the effort.

Bf-110 has a rotating D/F-loop at the bottom of fuselage behind the wings
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/germany/...-me-110-08.jpg
http://download.softclub.ru/pub/il2p...-110C-4_09.jpg

In early variants, the loop antenna had to be manually rotated with this thing:
http://www.cockpitinstrumente.de/ins...ss/Me110-3.gif
I recall that Ju-52 and other older twin engine planes had also manually rotated D/F-loops.

Later Bf-110 G-2 what we have already flyable has automatically rotating antenna and even later G-4 has this replaced by iron ferrite coil which is inside the fuselage like in Ju-88.

Many allied bombers have rotating D/F-loop inside a teardrop shaped cover. Check for example B-25s in game.

Some smaller planes have fixed small iron ferrite coils which work like loop antenna. Almost all LW late war single engined planes have either small fixed loop or ferrite coil. The idea of D/F-loop antenna is that when is facing directly towards (or away) from the radiating source like NDB, the induced current going through the antenna is zero.
http://files.homepagemodules.de/b208...6t50p137n1.png

So instead of rotating the antenna itself, plane must turn directly towards/away from beacon and then AFN gauge shows no deviation (needle centered). Getting a triangulated position from two beacons requires more effort with fixed antenna.

I think it's good that there's a delay, because between this and the Mount&Blade Warband addon, I would probably have had a heart-attack. :)

DT's,

Take your time guys, all your great work is a real gift to the community !

But don't forget the heavy MG issue (SAFAT 12.7 and others ...) :)

Insuber