LA7 Best Dogfighter In The World

Dig this. I've been a WW2 aircraft buff since I was a kid. I have an entire bookshelf on these planes dating back to the sixties. Yeah, I'm a little up there in age. Going to an excellent airshow this weekend. I have a book called Aircraft of WW2. It is full of specs, production data, models, armament, performance data, dash numbers. Everything. Copyright 1973. Author Bill Gunston. 47 aircraft listed. I will quote it reguarding the LA7:

In late 1941 Lavochkins team fitted a LAGG-3 of the latest type with a powewrful radial engine. The result was a great success, performance being transformed and especially at high altitudes. The aircraft went into production as the LA-5. By late 1942 the LA-5 was being called the wooden savior of Stalingrad. Lavachkin was given a Stalin prize and his bureau was moved into the gigantic Aircraft Factory no. 21. By 1943 a more powerful FN series engine, with direct fuel injection, was being fitted. An intense effort was mounted to reduce weight, and light alloy (aluminum) Was substituted for the wooden wing spar, though the extra space was not used for fuel. By the end of 1943 production switched to the outstanding LA7, with a supercharger and oil cooler fed by ram inlets in the wing roots and under the rear fuselage. Weight saving resulted in reduced fuel capacity and armament.
BY LATE 1943 THE LA7 WAS PROBABLY THE BEST DOGFIGHTER IN THE WORLD, AND IT WAS SELECTED BY ALMOST ALL THE SOVIET ACES.

Ha!! More later. I'm goin to bed. Maybe the devs got it right!

[wannabetheace]

Yeees, I wholy agree with you.
I like La series but I more enjoy with Yak fighters especially yak-3 cause they are more pretty and more ajile than any other fighters except fire power.
With Yak-3P you can have amazing firepower though .

[DoraNine]

"Best Turn-Fighter Below 15,000 Feet" would probably be a fairer description.

[David603]

Yeah, I was running a few tests about top speeds for different planes at different altitudes, and while the La7 is the quickest prop fighter in the game up to about 7,500ft, between this altitude and 15,00ft it goes from being quick to being average at best, and it cannot cope with Bf109s, Spitfires or any other medium to high altitude fighters above this. Handling also suffers disproportionately as you climb. Still, if you stay low down it is a very strong aircraft with no real flaws.

[Tudorp15]

I love it.. I use it in CTA almost exclusively, and sometimes in dog fights. You have to be careful which map you use it on dog fighting though. Foz brought it to my attension in one match that it is very easy to spot due to the grey winter camo if used in a contrasting colored map...

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Tudorp15

I love it.. I use it in CTA almost exclusively, and sometimes in dog fights. You have to be careful which map you use it on dog fighting though. Foz brought it to my attension in one match that it is very easy to spot due to the grey winter camo if used in a contrasting colored map...

Haha, i wish i'd never mentioned it now. Would of kept sneaking up on you
though your right, on Dover it stand out like a sore thumb when flying over trees etc, though the way you fly it tudorp when you fly from one end of the runway to the other (manston) it can sometimes be difficult to see as it blends in with the grey runway

[The_Goalie_94]

Originally Posted by lost cause

Dig this. I've been a WW2 aircraft buff since I was a kid. I have an entire bookshelf on these planes dating back to the sixties. Yeah, I'm a little up there in age. Going to an excellent airshow this weekend. I have a book called Aircraft of WW2. It is full of specs, production data, models, armament, performance data, dash numbers. Everything. Copyright 1973. Author Bill Gunston. 47 aircraft listed. I will quote it reguarding the LA7:

In late 1941 Lavochkins team fitted a LAGG-3 of the latest type with a powewrful radial engine. The result was a great success, performance being transformed and especially at high altitudes. The aircraft went into production as the LA-5. By late 1942 the LA-5 was being called the wooden savior of Stalingrad. Lavachkin was given a Stalin prize and his bureau was moved into the gigantic Aircraft Factory no. 21. By 1943 a more powerful FN series engine, with direct fuel injection, was being fitted. An intense effort was mounted to reduce weight, and light alloy (aluminum) Was substituted for the wooden wing spar, though the extra space was not used for fuel. By the end of 1943 production switched to the outstanding LA7, with a supercharger and oil cooler fed by ram inlets in the wing roots and under the rear fuselage. Weight saving resulted in reduced fuel capacity and armament.
BY LATE 1943 THE LA7 WAS PROBABLY THE BEST DOGFIGHTER IN THE WORLD, AND IT WAS SELECTED BY ALMOST ALL THE SOVIET ACES.

Ha!! More later. I'm goin to bed. Maybe the devs got it right!

WoW you sound like my history teacher...which is a good thing. But ya, totally agree.

[Soviet Ace]

The major problem with the Macchi 202, is that it stalls WAY to easy. And from what I've read, and been told by my grandfather who actually flew them in WW2. They were a very well handling and stable plane. So the constant stalls, shouldn't happen. And I've tried turning the sensitivity on the ailerons and elevators to different positions, but still get that terrible stalling.