Friday 2010-12-31 Happy Hew Year Dev. update and Discussion

[JVM]

Originally Posted by Richie

Happy New Year all. I was flying IL-2 and I looked at the tires of my F4 Trop. When the modders start getting hold of SOW please don't put whitewalls on the 109 tires. I've never seen anything look so out of place in my life. You have to do an awful lot of searching to find a 109 with whitewalls.

It should be OK for the tailwheel, though...Most if not all German tailwheel tyres had white walls, or at least were supposed to have them...This was not for fashion reason (!) but because this meant that the tyre was electricity conducing and in consequence the A/C did not need to be grounded electrically.
There were certainly some exceptions to the rule depending on available stocks, but you would not make a mistake in showing white walls on tailwheel tyres.

The main wheel tyres on the other hand were never white walled.

JV

[Richie]

Sounds fine with me. I have over 700 pictures of 109s in my Air War folder, I think there is a profile of a F4 Trop with whitewalls but again that's a print not a photograph. There's not one photograph in there of one with whitewalls though and I have many of Trop 109s

[JVM]

Are you talking about the main tyres, then?

[Richie]

Yes. There are some with whitewalls in the tail wheels as you said.

[Pierre@]

Originally Posted by Richie

Yes. There are some with whitewalls in the tail wheels as you said.

Whitewalls indicate ground insulated tail wheels IIRC

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Thanks for taking the time for an update, and a happy new year to you, your family, and everyone at 1C !