Incredible Detail

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

I'm at work now so I don't have it at hand, but roughly 200 pages?

It's interesting because it explains all the components of the plane, the systems and the procedures, it was very well made and quite exhaustive for its times.

Could you shine some light on the impeller/rat, would love to find out what it powered.. Just the crucial system after failure or the turrets as well!

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Could you shine some light on the impeller/rat, would love to find out what it powered.. Just the crucial system after failure or the turrets as well!

will have a look at it when I go back home today, my wild guess is that's just like a modern APU though.

[JG52Uther]

Do you have any G-50 pilots notes sternjaeger?

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

Do you have any G-50 pilots notes sternjaeger?

probably no pilot notes (although I might, I need to check), but maybe the manual. You guys might have to remind me later this afternoon though, my brain is somewhere else today LOL

[JG52Krupi]

Okay well from my testing of the RAT I cannot get it to work.... :pitchafit:

Begs the question why they animated it.. hopefully it will work in future.

However this experiment was not a total loss I did come across another very cool bit of detail...

This shows engine 0 seized...


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You cannot lower gear!!

This shows engine 1 seized...


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And you can deploy the gear so they have modelled which engine controls each system.. So now I will be finding out if this is true the other two engine aircraft and then make a note of which engine controls the hydraulics and hey presto in a fight if I at least knock that particular engine out they have a surprise in store when it comes to landing time

[Sternjaeger II]

ok, so I was right about the number of pages, circa 200 with covers and all.

As for the generator, I am still reading through it, the manual is a bit confusing (there's SO much information), but I can tell you that apparently the external one was the main generator, not an emergency one. The emergency one was actually connected to the compressor inside the plane, which normally is used for the startup (the system using compressed air).
Another interesting aspect is that the turrets were hydraulic, which means that if your system got damaged, you had no means of moving them around (!!!)

The landing gear system is hydraulic too, but it's another circuit and I'm trying to understand where the thing was fed from, there was a manual gear lever system though.

Apparently the plane also had a heating system for the cabin, and the rear main door could be jettisoned before abandoning the plane.

[robtek]

As for other twins, the Bf110 has the hydraulik pump operated by the right engine -> right engine stopped -> no flaps and gear.