Author Topic: Mossies on the way (Read 740 times)

Kev367th · « **on:** November 23, 2004, 10:47:22 PM »

Got accepted emails today, so fingers crossed they should be available this Friday.
Unfortuneately on this one you can't change spinner color.

mechanic · « **Reply #1 on:** November 23, 2004, 11:04:34 PM »

SWEET!

you're a skin making robot dude!! WTG!

HUN · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2004, 02:04:30 AM »

Looks like I'm gonna have to fly my mossie next tour

rogerdee · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2004, 08:32:57 AM »

nice work kev aain y moed th goalpots further for us poor guys trying to catch up:(

Overlag · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2004, 09:48:22 AM »

nice!

Karnak · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2004, 09:58:26 AM »

Great work and yay for some Mossie skins finally.

Thank you.

DipStick · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2004, 12:06:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Karnak
Great work and yay for some Mossie skins finally.

Thank you.

Ditto.

SLO · « **Reply #7 on:** November 24, 2004, 04:07:44 PM »

man that plane looks awesome...

thrila · « **Reply #8 on:** November 24, 2004, 05:37:13 PM »

I took a break from the mossie this tour- looks like i'll be returning soon.

Nice skins kev.

Kev367th · « **Reply #9 on:** November 24, 2004, 10:56:53 PM »

In the immortal words from Poltergeist....they're here.

nopoop · « **Reply #10 on:** November 24, 2004, 11:26:39 PM »

Kev, they ROCK !!

Replicant · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2004, 01:23:47 AM »

Love the Banff Strike Wing Mossie!

Anyone still having problems of irratical handling in the Mossie? (pulling up from dive and going into spin)

bozon · « **Reply #12 on:** November 25, 2004, 09:42:05 AM »

wonderfull skins for one of the world's most beautiful planes

Replicant,
Yes, the mossie has some instabilities at low speeds ~150mph. It feels as if the center of gravity is too far behind which makes the plane tail heavy.

The results are 2:
1. you can enter a "deep stall" - where the plane stalls and start falling but without lowering the nose. In RL this is caused by a certain weight configuration. I know that F16s with a belly tank and a certain fuel load are warned of this. Be wary of this when you try a hammer head with low throttle setting.

2. snap roll and spin - if you pull too hard in high speed the plane will be thrown around violenly and enter a spin imediatly. Recovering is not easy at all.

I don't know if this is wrong or it's that all other planes are too stable. Actually I wish more planes had these features. It makes stall fighting WAY more interesting.

Bozon

DieAz · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2004, 10:25:41 AM »

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Originally posted by bozon

I don't know if this is wrong or it's that all other planes are too stable. Actually I wish more planes had these features. It makes stall fighting WAY more interesting.

lol if they were any more unstable. all you'd see is BnZ tactics. mossie is real good for BnZ. but my lacking the skills for that kinda stalls, can't stall fight in it to save me life.

Replicant · « **Reply #14 on:** November 26, 2004, 01:21:09 AM »

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Originally posted by bozon
wonderfull skins for one of the world's most beautiful planes

Replicant,
Yes, the mossie has some instabilities at low speeds ~150mph. It feels as if the center of gravity is too far behind which makes the plane tail heavy.

The results are 2:
1. you can enter a "deep stall" - where the plane stalls and start falling but without lowering the nose. In RL this is caused by a certain weight configuration. I know that F16s with a belly tank and a certain fuel load are warned of this. Be wary of this when you try a hammer head with low throttle setting.

2. snap roll and spin - if you pull too hard in high speed the plane will be thrown around violenly and enter a spin imediatly. Recovering is not easy at all.

I don't know if this is wrong or it's that all other planes are too stable. Actually I wish more planes had these features. It makes stall fighting WAY more interesting.

Bozon

I haven't flown since July so wasn't sure it's been fixed yet. All I know is that before AH2 it was very stable but since then quite a few people were suffering with snap roll and spin after pulling up from a shallow dive. At the time I know it wasn't my config, and I believe it wasn't me pulling too hard since I didn't have problems in other aircraft (or previously), it was just associated with the Mossie. I lost something like 30 Mossies out of 35 sorties due to this snap roll.