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#931
09-30-2012, 06:55 PM
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They did a lot of research on the plane, so I would be surprised if they missed something like that. One sign that a prop can change pitch is the presence of counter-weights at the hub.
Here is a Dutch Fokker with variable pitch prop:  Here is a Danish one with fixed-pitch prop:  And Finnish: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...8FR-110%29.jpg I think that someone at DT copied an existing D.XXI in a museum, as the cockpit model in the game matches it perfectly. That version probably had a variable pitch prop. So maybe, the Finnish cockpit represents the wrong one, but the Finns could have kept the extra levers....I don't know who is right, but the functionality of the Finnish D.XXIs is correct. 
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#933
09-30-2012, 09:55 PM
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Hi dear Daidalos Team
Before all, I want to thank you for your wonderful work you are doing with this already wonderful game. It is a pleasure to see that there is a team dedicated to make this simulation even better. Each time I watch your videos on Youtube, I am so amazed by your work! I have 2 requests: *Be able to close the canopy gunner on bomber (D3A, B5N, SBD and the G4M). It is very agreable to be able to close the canopy during the flight. The aircrafts look much more realistic. *And do a cockpit for the outstanding PO2/U2. It is a great ground attack plane! I am teaching how to pilot to friends (including my nephews) and a plane like this one is an excellent trainer. Between 30000 and 40000 were built! That would be so nice!! Thanks you very much! Last edited by Nil; 09-30-2012 at 10:05 PM.
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#934
10-01-2012, 08:56 PM
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TD - a request which I'm certain is already on your agenda?
You've made the B5N flyable, you cannot leave the TBD all alone in the realm of AI? Balance must be restored to the universe, the Devastator needs to live, to sing, to dance with that Mk13 torpedo hanging so deftly from its bowel. With the Kate and the Devastator as flyables, this sim will finally shun it's Grumman induced bruises and rise as the Pacific gem we all dreamed it could one day be. Excuse me for being so verbose, I'm moved by that video of a flyable Kate. TD, love your work, really do. #Cough# and the observer's seat on the Beaufighter #cough#
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#936
10-01-2012, 11:49 PM
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Yes, you're right. Perhaps if we were to use anatomically correct analogies, the torp would hang from the "belly" of the Devastator but would reside within the "bowel" of an Avenger?
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#938
10-02-2012, 12:18 AM
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Perhaps it's sort of hanging part of the way out of its bowels, like something hanging from a dog's hind end before it scoots across the rug. 
Last edited by Pursuivant; 10-02-2012 at 12:33 AM.
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#939
10-02-2012, 12:32 AM
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But, I'm going to cut TD a lot of slack. They've done wonderful work to make a number of long-standing AI planes flyable and we keep pestering them for more, more, More! I'm guessing that they plan to eventually create crew stations for most of the planes in the game, and will also improve some of the older/uglier 3d models and cockpits. Give them time to work their magic. Remember, though, that creating each crew station takes a lot of work and the necessary pictures and data aren't available for every crew station for every plane. For that reason, I can't imagine that planes like the Me-323 will ever be flyable.
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#940
10-02-2012, 08:12 AM
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