Author Topic: Perking the TA152 (Read 4015 times)

Guppy35 · « **Reply #105 on:** December 07, 2005, 02:00:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Larry
UUhhhh the Ta in Ta152 stands for the guy who designed it.

Forgot to turn on your sarcasm o'meter today Larry?

Brooke was laying it on kinda thick I thought

mussie · « **Reply #106 on:** December 07, 2005, 02:04:07 PM »

I have flown the TA twice

once by accident and once I was board so I upped a TA climbe to 38k and then flew a few sectors in to book land (Rooke Bish = book).

Set off their dar on a dozen or so bases and flew home

I WAS BOARD OK!!!!!!!!!!

Larry · « **Reply #107 on:** December 07, 2005, 03:49:45 PM »

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Originally posted by Guppy35
Forgot to turn on your sarcasm o'meter today Larry?

Brooke was laying it on kinda thick I thought

Guppy you can never tell with the people who are on these boards.

Krusty · « **Reply #108 on:** December 07, 2005, 03:54:32 PM »

Well when the Raiders of the Lost Ark is mentioned as historically true, the sarcasm-meter ought to peg "full"

Karnak · « **Reply #109 on:** December 07, 2005, 04:11:27 PM »

The Ta152 in AH is a good fighter, but nothing perkworthy.

The best thing I ever did in it was, while a Rook, coming across a Bish P-51D setting up to kill a Lancaster. I was at 18,000ft, slightly above the Lanc and a bit below the P-51. As I approached I watched the Lanc twist to avoid the P-51, losing speed and altitude. As the P-51 zoomed back up, I killed the Lanc and then proceeded to easily out pace the P-51. On my return I tangled with an enemy Ta152 without results for either of us, but we lost altitude down to 8,000ft whereupon a Typhoon came after me. I escape the Typoon in a shallow dive and landed on fumes.

Larry · « **Reply #110 on:** December 07, 2005, 04:19:54 PM »

Karnak next time you see me on come wing up with me. I goto 20-25K and go insearch for bombers. With its blistering speed up there and guns its a great buff killer.

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #111 on:** December 07, 2005, 04:22:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Brooke
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The problem is that none of you have ever taken the Aces High Ta 152 up to 40k, pressed alt-ctrl-shift-a, waited 30 seconds, then pressed alt-ctrl-shift-r (for "Arcane Ritual") to active the "Ark" mode of the Ta 152.

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Air Warrior used to work like that for all planes - hit 40K and the physics wrapped around back to sea level for engine performance - like hitting the afterburner - hehe ...

Krusty · « **Reply #112 on:** December 07, 2005, 05:18:58 PM »

I wanna know why the same ammo setup for inboard MG151s has much less ammo (175RPG in the 152 vs 250rpg in the 190A/D/F/G). This can't have been purely for saving weight, could it?? Were they different guns? Was there a smaller ammo cartridge? I don't see how, as the cowl guns were removed already. Dangit if I can't have 500 rounds of 20mm I just don't feel fearsome!

Brooke · « **Reply #113 on:** December 07, 2005, 06:52:53 PM »

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Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Air Warrior used to work like that for all planes - hit 40K and the physics wrapped around back to sea level for engine performance - like hitting the afterburner - hehe ...

Oh, man! Wasn't there also a brief time where we were able to climb like crazy if we kept our planes inverted while doing so?

Morpheus · « **Reply #114 on:** December 07, 2005, 06:58:08 PM »

I miss the time when we used to have the C47 that turned into a 262 above 27.5k. That was a nice bug. If you went level too long you would compress and break youre wings and tail and everything else. YOu had to throtle back actually.

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #115 on:** December 07, 2005, 07:29:25 PM »

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Oh, man! Wasn't there also a brief time where we were able to climb like crazy if we kept our planes inverted while doing so?

Yup ... the "Inverted Stall Climb" bug ... they assumed in a stall that gravity would always be "down" relative to the plane, not to the planet. So if you roll inverted and stall, the plane would fall "up" and accelerate at the rate of gravity upwards. Sure saved on gas.