Flight Lieutenant John Greenwood flew Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain with RAF 253 Squadron. He shot down a Heinkel over Farnborough in August 1940. He is now 91.
Through a mutual friend, I managed to show him this ...
... and here's what he had to say.
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As for the simulator I cannot pass comment for it was short and looked like a computer game which I used to play some years ago. I guess it is more like a game than a simulator. A hurricane would have been shot down long before it reached the Heinkels."
Pretty blunt you might say but pretty revealing too. Interesting to hear that a real world Hurricane pilot used to play flight sims - I wonder which one?! Interesting too that he sees this as more of a game ... but then again probably not a fair reflection given the clip is short and he presumably doesn't know anything else about BoB SOW.
Most interesting of all though is his assessment of the poor approach by the Hurricane. Oleg said somewhere that this was a rookie AI, so that would seem to fit. I guess the other Hurricane you can see in the video scoring a hit is not a rookie!
Wouldn't it just be the icing on the cake if BoB SoW could be seen/enjoyed/commented on ... even endorsed by some the last remaining Few? I wonder if 1C/the publishers have thought of this possibility? Aside from the obvious commercial advantages of having this 'game' endorsed by real WWII pilots, how good would it feel for us to know that the Few think that SoW is very realistic too. A game and a memorial rolled into one.
PPanPan
11-05-2010, 12:50 PM
Real World BoB Hurricane Pilot's views on SOW
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