P-38L Late

gaunt1 · #1 10-09-2013, 11:14 AM

Thanks for the info guys!

Just one more question: Is the P-38J ingame an early or late model?

IceFire · #2 10-09-2013, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by gaunt1

Thanks for the info guys!

Just one more question: Is the P-38J ingame an early or late model?

Early. It has no dive brakes.

Basically in-game you have no dive brakes and no powered ailerons in the P-38J, dive brakes and powered ailerons in the P-38L (but ever so slightly slower top speed), and finally the P-38L Late with the more poweful engines and the most amount of speed, accceleration, and all of the doodads.

Unfortunately neither P-38L version have a working tail warning radar despite the antenna being modeled onto the aircraft. Apparently a bell or a buzzer was supposed to go off if the radar picked up an object directly behind the P-38. Interesting system.

gaunt1 · #3 10-10-2013, 11:14 AM

P-38L had a tail warning radar? Good to know!

What I really miss, is an earlier P-38 variant, maybe an F or G.

IceFire · #4 10-10-2013, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by gaunt1

P-38L had a tail warning radar? Good to know!

What I really miss, is an earlier P-38 variant, maybe an F or G.

Possible I'm sure. The earlier versions have a different nacelle arrangement and the cockpit is vastly different so its not easy to just bang them out and make it happen easily. It's not a total redo... but it is some work.

I'd like to see them as well. If the New Guinea maps arrives then the P-38F or G would be a good fit.

illegalBeagle · #5 10-24-2013, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by gaunt1

Thanks for the info guys!

Just one more question: Is the P-38J ingame an early or late model?

My understanding is the stock P-38J is a J-15 model.

Tempest123 · #6 10-24-2013, 02:35 PM

pretty sure some p51s had the same
warning system, like a buzzer.

IceFire · #7 10-25-2013, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Tempest123

pretty sure some p51s had the same
warning system, like a buzzer.

They may have... in-game there isn't the antenna I don't think. Not that it would be impossible to add. But on the P-38 there very clearly is.

horseback · #8 10-25-2013, 02:26 AM

The tail warning radar was found on most US fighters by late 1944; on the P-51, the antenna was mounted midway up the vertical tail, about six to eight inches back from the leading edge. P-47s had a similar installation.

If you look at photos from the period, you can pick them out fairly easily.

cheers

horseback