Time period of 150 octane P-47?

[Voyager]

So I picked up a copy of Battle Over Europe, and I've been tweaking it into Il-2 1946 (It was released for Il-2 FB, and never updated to '46). From Baugher's P-51D/K page, I believe it's reasonable to allow the P-51D-20NA in any spot that the P-51D-5 is available, but I'm having more trouble determining when the P-47D (Late) comes in.

To the best of my understanding, the P-47D (Late), is just the P-47D-27, using 100/150 octane, instead of 100 octane fuel, but I'm having trouble figuring out when that transition started, and ended. I've turned up some interesting bits, such as 115/145 being purple, but 100/150 being a different colour, and on Baugher's site the R-2800-59 is listed once with a power of 2,300hp, and later as being 2,535hp, which seems to match the 100/150 power version having close to 'M' model performance (2800hp), and some allusions on Wikipedia to it becoming available in limited quantities in "late 1944", but that's about it.

Any ideas?

Harry Voyager

[billswagger]

I can't say exactly when the 150 octane was incorporated into the P-47, but mid to late '44 sounds about right.

I think the P-47 late is a fair representation of this, but there were also short leaps in improvements made through out '44 that eventually contributed to the P-47D-30. They introduced a newer supercharger which might've also been in conjuction with the new octane. The D-30 was the most widely produced variant, which tells me that maybe they had reached a platue in its developement once it was refined for the newer octanes.

The P-47M had significantly better horse power, but appart from that, they also made minor weight reductions where they could. It was intended to be a full time fighter.
I've read that eventually the D-30 variants recieved many of the upgrades of the M and were labled as D-40s.
I think there can also be a lot of confusion surrounding these varinats because they were introduced in short succession from one another.

Thats my take on it any way.

Bill

[Voyager]

I'll call it September then.

New question is, how does one add it to a dynamic campaign, and what is it's unique ID? I had thought it was "P_47D" since that is what the skins dir is, but when I added that into the planes list for that campaign, and select it, my computer give a mighty BEEP, and displays a great blank for the mission map.

Any thoughts?

[billswagger]

You might have to add the 1944 to it, so it would read "P_47D, 1944".

Bill

[Voyager]

I just tried it. With the 1944 added on, it doesn't even show in the planes list. It looks like "P_47D" is the right aircraft name, but that there is something else goign wrong with the campaign.

Harry Voyager

[Fearfactor]

Originally Posted by Voyager

I just tried it. With the 1944 added on, it doesn't even show in the planes list. It looks like "P_47D" is the right aircraft name, but that there is something else goign wrong with the campaign.

Harry Voyager

Sounds like you need a new version of Dgen.exe file. you can get that over at mission4today.com certain patches done by a dude called "enjoyr". His patches are for Dgen but if needed you can extract the needed dgen.exe file out of the patch and replace the old dgen.exe in your IL2 Sturmovik 1946 directory/folder.

[Fearfactor]

Originally Posted by billswagger

You might have to add the 1944 to it, so it would read "P_47D, 1944".

Bill

No, actually the designation P_47D is what it should be. He needs a later dgen.exe file.