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Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox
Maybe some part didn't have it, however in manufacture design description it is present for MKI and up. It is probably the same thing like in SU with aviation - by manufacture design description all aircraft had radio station, however in reality many of then hadn't in 1941 due to lack of details or due to fact that some pilots removed it especially (both things were present)
We can't make so many small diffences for each period of war or life of the plane in one squadron. Say in case of radio call we would need to make way more complex system of radio chatter code... But we need universal system for the whole period of war... Such contradictions some time very hard to solve. Just for example.
For the spitfires as I recall we did two types of proppeller and pitch regulation. This is possible and must be, becasue type of prop changes the behavior of aircraft at climb, acceleration and as a result - in dogfight.
Such things are very important for the flight and as a result for the gameplay. We try to go by this way at first learning experience of Il-2 gameplay.
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Thanks for your quick reply Oleg, to avoid any confusion I'll restate my original intent as simply as possible: I don't believe ANY Spits should have stiffeners over the wheel wells, circa 1940. They were added as modification 532 (dated July 16 1942) and were only a temporary measure until they started using thicker panels over the wheel wells during wing skin construction. Any surviving Mk I airframes you see today that have the stiffeners would have had them added two years after the BoB.
Also, I don't think the majority of Spits had gun barrels that protruded from the gun ports during the BoB, they had been replaced with a shorter barreled version that allowed the ports to be taped over, due to lack of gun heating on early Spitfires. Any photos I've seen of Spits with the longer barrels are all pre-war photos.