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Offline Karnak

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Small error in the new Spitfire cockpit graphics
« on: October 16, 2005, 06:24:35 PM »
I was looking at the Spitfire cockpit graphics again when I noticed that the trigger in the Mk IX and Mk V cockpits was for a Spitfire armed only with machine guns such as a Spitfire Mk Ia or Mk Va.

In this screenshot you can see the trigger button is a simple, single action device used to fire all weapons:


Here is a photo of a Spitfire Mk IX's trigger mechanism:

Pressing the top fired the machine guns and pressing the bottom fired the cannons.

Here is a second shot of it:

Pressing the middle fired all guns.


And here is a shot of the action used in controling the ailerons:
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2005, 06:33:40 PM »
A trigger?

What a about the c-pit framing?

:huh

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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2005, 06:38:51 PM »
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A trigger?

What a about the c-pit framing?

Hard to judge without seeing it in the default view position.  The view position has been pulled way back to show more of the gauges, and controls.
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Offline Kweassa

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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2005, 06:46:25 PM »
So technically, you couldn't fire both machine guns AND cannons at the sametime, in Spits?
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Re: Small error in the new Spitfire cockpit graphics
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2005, 06:52:44 PM »
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Pressing the middle fired all guns.


 


I think they can fire all at the same time ;)
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Re: Small error in the new Spitfire cockpit graphics
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2005, 08:58:46 PM »
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Originally posted by Karnak Here is a second shot of it:
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Pressing the middle fired all guns.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2005, 11:00:12 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2005, 03:34:35 AM »
Ill post this link here, too.

http://www.simflight.com/%7Ereviews...lAirSpit_34.jpg

Of all the pictures I found of Spitfire c-pits this was the most realistic one, IMO.

I have one additional picture which shows the framing proportions quite well and the new model seems to be too thin.

That picture is of a Spit(9?) with internal armour but wasn't there external armour for Spit 5s? I don't know how that looks like as I couln't find any pictures of the external armour. I think they differ mostly on how the upper part of the armor obstructs the forward-up view.

What about the mirror? How common was it? Wasn't it round one for later Spits and rectangular for older ones?

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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2005, 05:49:30 AM »
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2005, 08:12:05 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2005, 01:25:58 PM »
Charge,

SUPERFLY has said that the cockpit bars are exactly the same dimensions as the current Spitfire's cockpit bars.  Are you saying that they are currently too thin as well?
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« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2005, 07:32:23 PM »
IMO yes, but tell me what you think from the pics I sent on the topic on General section.

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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2005, 08:05:05 PM »
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Originally posted by Charge
Ill post this link here, too.

http://www.simflight.com/%7Ereviews...lAirSpit_34.jpg

Of all the pictures I found of Spitfire c-pits this was the most realistic one, IMO.

I have one additional picture which shows the framing proportions quite well and the new model seems to be too thin.

That picture is of a Spit(9?) with internal armour but wasn't there external armour for Spit 5s? I don't know how that looks like as I couln't find any pictures of the external armour. I think they differ mostly on how the upper part of the armor obstructs the forward-up view.

What about the mirror? How common was it? Wasn't it round one for later Spits and rectangular for older ones?

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Early Spit Vs had the external armor.  THe internal armored windscreen was added somewhere in the Spitfire V production run.
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2005, 08:07:52 PM »
Why  O  Why did you put the ammo counter down low?

It was perfect up top. If you fly with the cockpit in a more up close postion (more like it would seem if you actually in a real one) (instead of zoomed back) you wont be able to read your ammo counter.

Please put it back up top:cry
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2005, 08:08:46 PM »
Spits shouldn't have ammo counters at all.
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