IAR-80

[CAVPFCDD]

well im norwegian, so i know about their effect on the war, their best pilots went down to england and flew in the RAF and for awhile and were the top pilots in the RAF, but the norwegians didn't have any good planes of their own. I own the Janes Fighting Aircraft of WWII, i guess I'll have to go back and read the Romanian section, it's a great book, it covers every single airplane from the experimentals to the full scale production models, as well as the countries airforces impact on the warm, guess i always skipped over the romanians 

[WarTooth]

>> I'm afraid either do not have enough "flash-bang" to be added.

If we are to believe AH they are now re-committed to making changes to their premiere product after dropping CT.

If they were to add just one new plane variant found and used during WWII every quarter they might have them all in 20 years.    Just a joke but my point is there is plenty room for these type additions.

WT

[Masherbrum]

Add it!     

[Denholm]

+2

[Anodizer]

how much combat did they see in wwII? no offense but you don't hear whole lot, if anything about the romanian airforce...

Romania was a staunch German alley for the first half of WW2.  In addition to the I.A.R. 80/series, Romania also manufactured AND acquired many 109's (E,F,G2 and G6 models) and
were very effective on the Russian front as well as hassling Allied Bombers and Fighter Patrols..

There's a huge a significant history regarding Romania's Airforce during WWII..  The airforce was instrumental in recapturing two originally Romanian provinces (part Bukovina and Bessarabia which the USSR had occupied for a year).  This was no small feat.  Although in the grand scheme of things, this may not sound like much, but had just over 600 viable fighters to work with and as many as 2000 air to air victories before 1944(when they "switched sides" which is another story all together).

There were lots of countries involved in WWII that I'm sure you never heard of or never even suspected of being involved.  That's where research comes in.   

[Kazan_HB]

Romanian Aces
http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/romania.htm

[Treize69]

Ahem.











That is all. 

[Kazaa]

Yak3 please, unleash the beat !

[Masherbrum]

Ahem.

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That is all. 

You sexy thing, welcome back.   

[Redlegs]

*cough* *cough*  Oops. Carry on.

[glock89]

Love to see it added.

[WarTooth]

>> how much combat did they see in wwII?

Don't know - don't care. 

Just add it in proper relation to customer votes and HiTech development time.  No plane used in WWII should be neglected.  More is better.  If they made 1 of it and it flew once in combat...add it baby!  Perk if you must but let us fly'm all.

WT

[SectorNine50]

Good lord look at the length of that nose!  Over the nose shots are going to be quite the challenge in this aircraft.  Looks interesting though, would like to see one of the 81's go in due to it's armament.  If I read correctly, the 80's only had 4 x 7.62 machine guns?  Don't think you could do much damage with that, at least not in AH.  However, the 81A and B had 13.2mm (little bigger than a 50cal) and the C had 4 x 20mm!

81C Stats:
6,570 LBS (Max take-off weight)
1,025 HP
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6.4 LBS/HP

4850 LBS (Empty weight)
1,025 HP
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4.7 LBS/HP

Pretty light little fighter, looks like it actually wouldn't do half bad up in the skies of AH.

[Treize69]

81C had 2x 20mm and 4x .30 cal. Not 4x 20mm.

[Masherbrum]

81C had 2x 20mm and 4x .30 cal. Not 4x 20mm.

Correct!