Unofficial plane list.

[Graham85]

Originally Posted by The_Goalie_94

I only need a LANCASTER...then i will buy this game FOR SURE!!!!

That would be nice

[David603]

Originally Posted by cydno

I think I saw one in a trailer (the one with shorter wings)... This version of the spitfire was called by some of the RAF pilots as "clipped", "clapped" and "cropped" and was definitively not the pilot's choice.

The only Spitfires we know about in game are the IIb, the IXc and the XVIe. The IIb is the one in the demo, the IXc is the version with a pointed tail and the XVIe has the bubble canopy. I think the IX and XVI have an option for the wing type because I have see the IX with and without clipped tips.

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by Buggins

The 'tiny prop' was not to keep it stable. It was to power the onboard generator.

You are right. I totally confused it with something else.

[mondo]

Originally Posted by cydno

I think I saw one in a trailer (the one with shorter wings)... This version of the spitfire was called by some of the RAF pilots as "clipped", "clapped" and "cropped" and was definitively not the pilot's choice.

That refers to the MkVB when they were still in service in 1944 and were all approaching the end of both the airframe lives and engine lives i.e. clapped.

They had Merlin 45M with a cropped (the cropped bit )supercharger and a higher boost/octane fuel an to give them more power at lower altitudes so they could be used in the 2nd TAF. The lack of wing tips was to give a better roll rate at lower altitudes (clipped).

It was very much the pilots choice in 1941 but by 1944 it was scraping the barrel. Although they were just as good performers as the Spit IX at very low altitude where the 2nd TAF operated most of its aircraft. They only had 60 round drums for the Hispano MkII though.

[cydno]

Originally Posted by mondo

That refers to the MkVB when they were still in service in 1944 and were all approaching the end of both the airframe lives and engine lives i.e. clapped.

They had Merlin 45M with a cropped (the cropped bit )supercharger and a higher boost/octane fuel an to give them more power at lower altitudes so they could be used in the 2nd TAF. The lack of wing tips was to give a better roll rate at lower altitudes (clipped).

It was very much the pilots choice in 1941 but by 1944 it was scraping the barrel. Although they were just as good performers as the Spit IX at very low altitude where the 2nd TAF operated most of its aircraft. They only had 60 round drums for the Hispano MkII though.

Good and interesting speech mondo...
You are of course right in all this and I said this was not the pilots choice because of differents sets of RAF pilots memories from 1943 to 1945 that I have read.

[Almighty Blighty]

Originally Posted by David603

As a dedicated 109 pilot I'm not complaining.

You want a plane to be put in the game just so you can shoot it down? Okay, in that case I want the B24, B25, B26, Lancaster, Mosquito, more versions of the P51 and P47..........

You think that the mossie was easy to shoot down?

The germans were so annoyed by it they started to design a plane to specifically catch the mossie because no other planes could - the Heinkel HE 219.

Mossie=best plane of WW2 becasue of its speed and versitility

[David603]

Originally Posted by Almighty Blighty

You think that the mossie was easy to shoot down?

The germans were so annoyed by it they started to design a plane to specifically catch the mossie because no other planes could - the Heinkel HE 219.

Mossie=best plane of WW2 becasue of its speed and versitility

Its good, and it will give most mid and even some late war fighters a challenge just catching it, but when you can have a Bf109 with 50mph more top speed than a Mosquito the catching bit is considerably less of a problem.

Not that I want to detract from its WWII record, and its huge versatility and success in the fighter-bomber, bomber, night fighter and shipping strike roles, but against a faster single engined fighter the Mosquito just can't cut it.

[Soviet Ace]

That's why you need a Yak-3! Maybe a Yak-9 to deal with the higher altitude fighters (Me-109s).

[David603]

Better, but still 35mph slower and about 1000ft per min worse off in climb rate than a 109K.

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by David603

Better, but still 35mph slower and about 1000ft per min worse off in climb rate than a 109K.

Your just to biased against small nimble planes Always needing to get cheap shots at your opponent, rather than turn and burn with him LOL