New P40 Request.

[ElAurens]

Would it be possible to get void and default skins posted so I can start on reskinning of my personal Hawk 87s?

I have hundreds of H 87 skins currently, and of course they will be history after the upgrade.

[Treetop64]

[troll]

I'd like to see a simulation of realistic operation of the P-36/P-40 gear mechanism and it's operation by the pilot.

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Seriously, that would be nice. Successfully operating the landing gear in a P-40 after takeoff and before landing would bring a huge sense of accomplishment itself, regardless of how the rest of the mission turned out!

As for the skins, I hope at least the default skin(s) are up to the usual DT standards. Looking forward to what the rest of you P-40 painters create after that.

[FlyingShark]

What's so special about the landing gear of the P40?

~S~

[ElAurens]

It was based on a Boeing patented design that had a gear at the top of the
gear strut that made it rotate as the gear came up, to allow the wheel/tire to ride flush with the wing.

I'm not sure what Treetop is on about other than that, and it does come up that way if you watch in externals.

[SuperEtendard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuD7I-HlYVc

[FlyingShark]

Thanks, guys.

~S~

[Treetop64]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I'm not sure what Treetop is on about other than that

What I was on about is that in some models of the P-40 there was no electric motor to drive the hydraulic pump, and the pilot had to manually operate the hydraulic pump that operated the gear. With other models the pilot selected the landing gear with a switch and then operated the electric hydraulic pump with a trigger button on the control stick. At any rate, it was just a passing comment with no seriousness about it, and only mentioned it because I thought it was an unusual procedure for gear operation for an American aircraft.

I was not speaking of the articulation of the gear.

[ElAurens]

I knew about the trigger on the stick to run the pump, but not about a total manual system.

Time for some research.

Thanks.

[ben_wh]

Back to ElAurens' original post - I don't know whether this is feasible, but is there a way to develop a small program that'd 'convert' existing P-40 skins to the new mapping?

There are lots of great P-40 skins out there representing thousands of man hours of work by skinners. And these are used in dozens of campaigns and hundreds of missions. It'd be a shame to lose them all.

Cheers,

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Treetop64

What I was on about is that in some models of the P-40 there was no electric motor to drive the hydraulic pump, and the pilot had to manually operate the hydraulic pump that operated the gear.

I could see that being modeled as a variant on manually retracting/extending the landing gear, only rather than mashing a key multiple times to simulate cranking a handle, you have to hold down the appropriate key for a certain length of time to simulate holding down the pump control trigger.