Oleg Maddox's Room #1

[csThor]

You're missing my point, Feuerfalke. I do not judge aircraft usefulness merely by their prominence, but their historical relevance for the operation/timeframe/geographic are simulated by a software release. For example if Oleg chose to release an AddOn for SoW depicting the operations over North Africa from 1940 to the end of 1941 a Spitfire - while highly iconic - wouldn't have a place because historically there were none!
As Oleg said: Each aircraft fulfilled a role in the war. But to a flight simmer not every plane and every role is worth simulating (i.e. not everyone would want to fly 5-hour weather recon sorties all across Europe). There's the simple question whether the gameplay value of a certain type is worth the investment of the developer (time, money and manpower).

I, for example, do question the usefulness of the autogyro. I'm a strictly historically minded player who puts history way above any "KeWl" factor. The autogyro fulfilled one role in limited numbers in a very limited timeframe. It can't be used (historically) outside of a narrow scope so it doesn't offer as much relative gameplay value as, say, a cockpit for the Do-17Z or perhaps a Fairey Battle.