If you could change something about your favorite ride?

[warmcocoroos]

id put a pan above the engine for a pop corn popper, and a radiator powered minifreezer... that'd raise morale!!!

[lasersailor184]

I'd have to say stick the P51 D Engine in the P40.  Then you'd have the best fighter plane in all of WW2.

[Canaris]

I know this isnt much of a change but instead of the P38L in the game I want the P38D because of the 37mm which I would help for shooting against bombers and tanks.


Canaris

[GRUNHERZ]

Yes its a fake design, a japanese modeler came up with it on his website.

HoHun I'm not sure thats true.  The Jumo style radiators are bigger than the engine.  
And this is certainly true when you talk about fitting them to a DB engine.  

Also imagine fitting an annular radiator to a Bf109 with DB605, could you do it with  the same frontal profile diameter as the current spinner? I dont think so..

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by GScholz
All valid points excep the aileron one. It seems to have flaperons.
 

I think they are spolilers.  Take a look at the model designers drawing.

[moot]

Actually, a 190D/Ta with only a nose-103 would be interesting.

[GRUNHERZ]

Would be like the Yak9T, except more ammo, faster but muchless manuverable.

[simshell]

replace 2 of the 4 30mm cannon on the ME262 with a setup of

2 30mm
2 20mm

[GScholz]

Holy crap ... that this is actually real, at least the basic concept of it. Me-309:

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/me309.html

[GRUNHERZ]

Me309 as in your last post is very real.  But the the other thing you posted is fake.

The real Me309 was a dog, a terrible design.  It was much heavier than a late Bf109G but the wing was only a bit bigger. It was basically an extend Bf109 wing, the root chord and taper of both LE and TE are identical to Bf109 wing. It only had a bit of a tip extension.  Handling was terrible.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

To the P-38L-10-Lo, I'd add a Hamilton Standard four blade high activity paddle prop with a 13'6" diameter, and I'd release the 64" manifold pressure restriction (odd, the gage in AH II shows 60", it should be 64", the horsepower difference is significant) and allow 74" @ 3200 RPM.


By the way, the P-38L had tail warning radar, which is included in the weight used to model the plane. Why is it not working, since I have to carry the weight, I'd like to have the weight do its job.

[Urchin]

You already got a tail warning system.. they are called tracers.  And hit sounds.

[hogenbor]

That's easy, a Malcolm hood on my P-51B and 2 hispanos instead of two of the 0.50's.

[Vermillion]

Grun, spoilers are traditionally mounted mid chord on the upper surface of the wing (see the F-4 Phantom).  They put them there so that they have more air flow disturbance during high speed flight.

I think they would more properly be called flaperons in this case.

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by Vermillion
Grun, spoilers are traditionally mounted mid chord on the upper surface of the wing (see the F-4 Phantom).  They put them there so that they have more air flow disturbance during high speed flight.

I think they would more properly be called flaperons in this case.

I belive this color diagram illustrates TWO  alternative roll control setups. Notice the short dark blue and dark red arrows showing the intended roll direction (the right wing lifts up, the lefty wing drops and the airplane rolls to the left).

Look at the top color drawing, it shows a standard plane with standard ailerons in blue and flaps in red. The ailerns are drawn in moved positions. They are shown to influence the airflow stram arrows to initiate rolls. Everything is prettyu standard.Notice this drawing does not have spoliers.

Next look at the lower of the two color drawings. Its a totally different plane, notice the bent up wing tips on tis one - its like the 3 view drawing plane. What are the llittle blue tabs, mounted mid chord, on the top surface of the wing? They are spoilers. This drawing does not have any ailerons. The flaps are in red. Notice the flaps are darwn in a static position and do not affect airflow.  Notice how one of the spoliers is clearly in an elevated position and is shown to affect the airflow straem arrows just in such a way as to roll the airplane. Its using spoliers to control rolls..  Its not showing the flaps as roll control devices - just the spoliers.

The flaps are not flaperons, they are just full span plain flaps according to this drawing.  





Finally on this 3 view notice that the plane has identical spoilers as the second color drawing above.  They are the small rectangales just in front of the flap on the top surface of the outer wing.