Author Topic: New Variants (Read 1649 times)

Raptor · « **on:** May 13, 2005, 05:09:10 PM »

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Because of the amount of help that they are providing us, we’re going to try to take some of that time savings and spin off some new variants. They’re really doing an amazing job.

What P47 and/or P51 Variants would you like to see?

Rino · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2005, 05:13:36 PM »

M/N and H obviously

Need for Speed and all that.

1K3 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2005, 05:33:23 PM »

NONE!

all of them are filled c'mon!

1K3 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2005, 05:34:23 PM »

i take that back, we need a perked and clipped P-47 M and N.

Sikboy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2005, 06:33:14 PM »

When I read that I wasn't sure that the "new variants" comment was limited only to the '47 and '51. I was hoping for an earlier 190 myself.

-Sik

Pongo · « **Reply #5 on:** May 13, 2005, 06:46:26 PM »

A Spit XVI with bubble canopy.

Rino · « **Reply #6 on:** May 13, 2005, 07:59:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Sikboy
When I read that I wasn't sure that the "new variants" comment was limited only to the '47 and '51. I was hoping for an earlier 190 myself.

-Sik

Yeah, we have way too many Mustangs and only 4 members
of the FW family

. It's not like they're mutually exclusive, ie
if we get a new pony you wouldn't get your FW-190-D-12-a-3547-
cz-0a.5

Sikboy · « **Reply #7 on:** May 13, 2005, 08:30:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Rino
Yeah, we have way too many Mustangs and only 4 members
of the FW family . It's not like they're mutually exclusive, ie
if we get a new pony you wouldn't get your FW-190-D-12-a-3547-
cz-0a.5

I certainly didn't mean to imply that they were mutually exclusive. Only that I was hoping for an earlier 190. But hey, everyone knows that I'm a total luftwhiner who's axis obsessed, so really I can see how you were confused.

-Sik

bunch · « **Reply #8 on:** May 13, 2005, 08:57:54 PM »

I request the crappy Brewster Built Corsair & the Avia S-199 (with the Avia an Israeli independence war scenario could be done...might not be too bad a plane really, good firepower)

Guppy35 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2005, 01:45:13 AM »

I suppose if it's to help ToD, then you'd need an early Jug that only could carry the centerline drop tank and had no wing hard points. Not the longer range razorback.

I'd also think you'd want an early OD/Gray B model Mustang for the December 43-summer of 44 time frame. Then you'd want a NMF B/C for May 44-until the end. This would be the bird with the malcom hood. (Not that the early OD/Gray birds didn't have them too but they were a bit more rare) And finally a D/K model for June 44 until the end.

I don't know where an Allison P51 would play into the ToD environment if it's the 8th vs the Luftwaffe. Not much use for it there.

Dan/CorkyJr

Guppy35 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2005, 01:47:54 AM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
A Spit XVI with bubble canopy.

Just not that common before the war ended. High back LFIXe/XVIe would make much more sense.

Dan/CorkyJr

Kweassa · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2005, 02:01:46 AM »

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Yeah, we have way too many Mustangs and only 4 members
of the FW family

What'd you expect? The 190 entered service 2 years before the Mustangs and stayed until the war's end.

The Mustang came very late in '43, and still contended with the P-38 or the P-47 until the USAAF finally switched most of its assets to the P-51s in '44.

The only 'pony' that served in the war, in overall generalization, is essentially the B and the D, which we have both.

If any USAAF fighters need a new variant, it would be the P-47C.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2005, 02:06:48 AM »

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Originally posted by Kweassa
What'd you expect? The 190 entered service 2 years before the Mustangs and stayed until the war's end.

The Mustang came very late in '43, and still contended with the P-38 or the P-47 until the USAAF finally switched most of its assets to the P-51s in '44.

The only 'pony' that served in the war, in overall generalization, is essentially the B and the D, which we have both.

If any USAAF fighters need a new variant, it would be the P-47C.

Now now

Spit entered service 5 years before the 190 and we only have 4 versions with one perked. The latest unperked Spit we have is a bastardized version resembling the 1942 model.. Seems to me before we'd see more 190s you'd see an accurate LFIX, a VIII and potentially an XII or LFXVI.

Seems to me the 109 fanatics have a better case then the 190 guys too.

Just sayin

Oh and of course the Mustang was in operation in 42 with the Allison versions operated by the RAF and the USAAF

Dan/CorkyJr

bunch · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2005, 04:06:37 AM »

Much lower fraction of Curtis built P-47s were in combat than the Republic built Thunderbolts, so P-47g. (I request worse planes for the increased challenge)....Early Ford built B-24 also

justin_g · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2005, 07:57:10 AM »

I thought the P-47G was only used for training in the US?