New planes requests (from other threads/please pin it)

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Originally Posted by iMattheush

What do you think about these 2 airplanes? b-29d flew in may 1945 and was known as b-50, and c-54 was in use from 1942

Four questions we should ask ourselves when requesting a particular plane:

1) Was a particular plane built in significant numbers during the WW2 era?

2) Did a particular plane see combat to any great degree during the WW2 era?

3) Was a particular plane critical to a particular country's war effort?

4) Could a particular plane's role be more or less filled in a given scenario by another plane currently in the IL2 line-up? (i.e., how "unique" is it?)

For the B-29D/B-50, the answers are No, No, No, and Yes, the B-29A.

For the C-54, the answers are Yes, No, No, and Yes, the C-47.

So, in both cases, while these aircraft are interesting and important in their own ways, they aren't good candidates to include - at least for a WW2 sim. OTOH, for a Korean War/Early Cold War sim, both of these planes would be very important.

Like it or not, there's a whole lot of very cool US hardware which should never be in IL-2, because it was never deployed in significant numbers outside the Continental US during WW2, and because by the time certain planes were introduced, the Western Allies had complete air superiority over the Axis powers.