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Old 10-11-2013, 09:27 AM
RegRag1977 RegRag1977 is offline
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Cool The awesome Yaks improvement thread :)

Hello Team Daidalos,

I would like to ask you if it will be possible to have more accurate cockpit details for the Yak family. I am not asking for higher resolution or eye candy stuff, i am happy with the overall quality of the pits considering their age.

However there's something i think could be improved: the shape of the yak windscreens: actually they changed with the different versions, but in game we mostly have the early rounded Yak1 windscreen up to the latest Yaks (9M) with only the 9U that have a rather strange squared rectangular one, and the 3 that have no metal frame at all (which is correct).

Long story short:

Early Yak1 (and possibly yak7) windscreen is rounded at the top (correct and nice in game) :

http://www.yak-1.co.uk/_/rsrc/134080...me/yakboat.bmp

Yak1B 1943: should be trapezoidal:

http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Yak-3/Nor...-Yak-1B-02.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g6...die-Niemen.jpg

http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Yak-3/Nor...Yak-1B-01.html

Most of the Yak 9 appear to have the same type of windscreen (even the U which ingame is strangely rectangular, but i can be wrong here, i did not find much pics of this type

Yak9U:

http://www.museumofflight.org/files/...rank_03_P1.jpg).

Regular mid war Yak9:

http://ram-home.com/ram-old/yak-9t-gor1p144-3.jpg

I'm sure many people around here can provide documents about this.

Thanks for reading, and for all you made for our favorite sim!
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