4.10 dev. update 2010-11-06

[OberstDanjeje]

Great video, hope this will shut some bad mouths!!!

Thanks and keep with the good work

P.S. why not new texture for bombs, pylons and loadout?

[Oktoberfest]

So great to see so many improvements. I think pilots will have to specialize even more in their aircrafts to be sure to use it at 100%. It'll be crazy just to master the torpedo system or the guided bombs.

By the way, I have a question. Do you guys plan (in future patch ! Don't want to add more delay !!!) to have the ships getting an AI, which means that they can spot the torpedos and try evasive manoeuvres, or make random manoeuvres to try to avoid dive bombing?

Of course, the AI would be scalable and not every crew would be able to do that.

Also please, get the blast effect of near misses to do damage to the hull of the aimed ships if it's close enough.

This would be great and add a lot of immersion in the sea war. Of course it's just a christmas wish, but it would be so great !

[ImpalerNL]

crosswind?

I saw something about crosswind in the last part of the new video.
There is nothing better than landing your warbird, while you have strong crosswind trying to prefent you from landing.

[Romanator21]

Why would it? Do you have some first hand info (say a manual) that states it could drop the fuel tank?

If it was on fire, for instance.

I realize it would not be an easy thing to do since it would mean making an entirely new 3d model. It wouldn't be unreasonable to simply make a "fire extinguisher" for it.

Beasically, it is a tall cylinder in front of the pilot, and it makes the bottom of the forward fuselage. It simply falls out the bottom of the aircraft, between the gear legs.

The aircraft was conventional in layout, with high wings, all-metal, metal-covered. The cockpit was open. An internal fuel tank in a hull could be dropped in case of fire emergency. The armament was two 7.92 mm machineguns on hull sides, though a third of the P.11cs had two additional machine guns in the wings. The P.11c could carry four small 12.5 kg bombs (P.11a could not). The radial engines used were: P.11a: Bristol Mercury IV S2 (normal: 525 hp (391 kW), maximum: 575 hp); P.11b: Gnome-Rhone 9Krsd (550 hp, max: 595 hp), P.11c: Bristol Mercury V S2 (565 hp, max: 600 hp) or Mercury VI S2 (590 hp, max: 630 hp), P.11f: Gnome-Rhone 9Krse (560 hp, max: 610 hp).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_P.11

In 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the PZL P.11 was outclassed in terms of performance by both Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters. It also had absolutely inadequate firepower, 70% of the aircraft being equipped only with two 7.9 mm machine guns (and pilots often preferred these over the four-machine gun version, saying that additional weight affected the plane's performance - especially the climb rate!) It was, however, very maneuverable and sturdy airplane, and its short take-off facilitated operations from improvised airfields. A unique feature was its jettisonable fuel tank. However, it had no armor protection for the pilot.

http://avstop.com/history/aroundthew...oland/p11.html

I wish I could find some diagrams that I found some time ago...

Will get back to you.

[Avimimus]

If you find any good references for the appearance of the plane without the wing guns you should send them to TD as well...

[Romanator21]

Here's an in-cockpit shot. You can see the fuel tank cylinder plainly. It is not behind any sort of fire-wall, so the pilot is directly exposed in the event of a fire.



If you look carefully, you can see a cut-out between the gear legs, and just aft of where the tension cables meet.



It's just a model, but the brass part shows the bottom of the fuel tank, as well as the connection/release straps (also modeled in brass).





Still trying to get a manual....

[JtD]

Not necessary, got one myself, only forgot about it. Nice pics, though, and interesting feature I didn't realize before.

[bf-110]

P.11 had fuel tank?Where?

[Romanator21]

Every airplane that's not a glider or powered by electricity has a fuel tank

[FAE_Cazador]

It is awesome that such a plane (P-11c) could survive war to be now in a aero museum. Is it original or a replica?