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Offline -cman-

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A nice touch for the Finns...
« on: January 13, 2000, 12:23:00 AM »
with the Bf-109G2, but I'm sure they'll still whine for the Buffalo or the I-16  

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Offline CptTrips

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A nice touch for the Finns...
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2000, 12:29:00 AM »
I say give'm the Buffalo.

My scores need the padding.  

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Offline janneh

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A nice touch for the Finns...
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2000, 02:14:00 AM »
cc -cman-, but no buffalo!
109G-2 will be good, in case HTC overmodelled it correctly    

on the second thought, if Ilmari "Illu" Juutilainen, finnish ace with 94 kills says:

" I started my Brewster flights in the beginning of April 1940, doing all the aerobatics maneuvers, stall and dive tests. I was happy with my Brewster. It was agile, it
had 4,5 hours endurance, good weaponry - one 7,62 mm and three 12,7 machine guns -
and an armored pilot's seat. It was so much better than the Fokker that it was in another category. If we had had Brewsters during the Winter War, the Russians would have been unable to fly over Finland. It was also a "gentleman's traveling plane", for it had a roomy cockpit and room in the fuselage, as we used to say, for a poker gang. We
unofficially transported mechanics, spare parts, oil canisters etc. in our Brewsters. Once, though two pilots went a little too far - a flight sergeant was flying, and in the fuselage was a second lieutenant, his friend, his dog and a lot of baggage. Upon landing the plane went off the runway and the suitcase came out. Both pilots were punished. Humorously, the lieutenant's sentence started with:"As the commander of the crew of a single-seat fighter.."


... why not ?
 



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Offline dolomite

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A nice touch for the Finns...
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2000, 06:54:00 AM »
I think HTC needs to model beer (for the Brewster to carry, thereby justifying its existance).  

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A nice touch for the Finns...
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2000, 07:14:00 AM »
I say go for the BW!  

It's pretty agile alright.  It could outturn the Hurricane and was faster, so it is a good plane for the early war plane set.  

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