We Need More Spitfires

[funked]

Mk. I, 1938 - Battle of Britain Classic.

Mk. II, 1940 - Upgraded Mk. I, the Spit that all those mean 190's picked on in 1941.

LF Mk. IX, 1943 - The most common Mk. IX by a wide margin.  Clipped wings for greatly improved roll rate.  Merlin 66 engine gave over 4500 fpm at S/L and speeds up to 20 mph faster than F. Mk. IX (current AH Mk. IX) below 18,000 feet.  With 130/150 grade fuel, the Merlin 66 could produce 2000 hp for even more fantastic performance.

Mk. VIII, 1943 - The plane that the two-stage Merlins were intended for (Mk. IX was V with a two-stage Merlin wedged in there).  Extra internal fuel in the wing roots, fully tropicalised, retractable tail wheel.  According to Jeffrey Quill (chief development test pilot) the Mk. VIII was the best Spitfire "from a pure flying point of view".  Built in F, LF, HF variants with similar engines (Merlins 61, 63, 66, 70) and performance to Spitfire Mk. IX variants.  Used primarily in overseas commands (Asia and Africa).

Mk. XII, 1943 - The first production Griffon Spitfire, a modified Mk. V airframe.  Single-stage engine made it a low altitude specialist.  No match for the Mk. XIV but still a great performer.

Mk. XIV, 1944 - Simply the finest air-to-air fighter to see service in WWII.  A Spitfire redesigned to handle the power of the Griffon.  Two-stage supercharger gave it superlative performance at low and high altitudes.  Despite immense power, it retained much of the carefree handling and responsiveness of the earlier Spitfire Marks.

Performance information available here, courtesy MW of the 4th FG.

I want to see at least two of these in the next release, OR ELSE!          

And after that I'll get started on the Seafire!

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FunkedUp, Officer Commanding, 308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF
Northolt Wing (1st Polish Fighter Wing)

"We had been forced to fight.  And now that we are fighting, we thought, we'll teach you rotten Huns how to fight.  We'll shoot your pissy little fighters out of the sky, we'll rip your dirty great bombers to shreds, we'll make you wish to Christ you'd never heard of the aeroplane!"

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[Suave1]

Please do as he says, you don't want him to release the marmosets .

[brady]

 I see your spits and raise u a Ki 84...


Brady

[Hans]

I agree with Brady.  More Japanese.

The G4M, Ki-84, Ki-100, J2M, and maybe the Judy and Jill as well.

The Russians could use a IL-2m3.  It was the most produced aircraft...ever.

[Karnak]

I'm with Funked on this one.

The Germans have 4 109s and 4 190s, we have two Spits, and the IX is the worst IX produced.

Give us our Spits!!!!

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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother

Bring the Spitfire F.MkXIVc to Aces High!!!

Sisu
-Karnak

[Pongo]

all good stuff, except the nonsence about a 4 cannon spit VIII.
Maybe if there were thousand plane  He177 raids on england.

[funked]

Perk the extra pair of cannon.    
(I copied that line from Jeffrey Quill's book, he meant the plane had the C or E wing with two cannon mounts per side.)

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[Jack55]

Ya, some different Spiffies. Natural metal finish please.

[Tac]

early spits yes. Hurricane yes.

But more powerful spits? Geah, no! Last thing I need to see are more sissyfires turning inside me and spraying hispano !  

[flakbait]

Ernst Udet lives on in Funked?

"Fighters, fighters, fighters! That's what we need!"

 

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Flakbait [Delta6]
Delta 6's Flight School
Put the P-61B in Aces High
"For yay did the sky darken, and split open and spew forth fire, and
through the smoke rode the Four Wurgers of the Apocalypse.
And on their canopies was tattooed the number of the Beast, and the
number was 190." Jedi, Verse Five, Capter Two, The Book of Dweeb
 

[Jekyll]

Definitely agree on the Spitfire VIII funked.  I too had read that the Mk VIII was the nicest Spitfire of all to fly.

I'd love to see just how good the Spitfire was  

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Chapter 13, verse 11

[gatt]

I fly mostly axis, but I have to agree with Funked. In a virtual war you would see Spitfires LFIX and XIV over Berlin and not Ponies   ... chased by MW50 190D-9s ...  

[bike killa]

im' with ya funked! we need
moooooooooooooore!!!
moooooooooooooore!!!
moooooooooooooore!!!
 

[Vermillion]

Ok, you guys have broke me down  

Lets get every possible variation of a Spitfire, Hurricane, Me109, Fw190, and the main American Fighters (P-51, P-40, P-47, P-38, F4U, F6F, F4F).

I mean after all... the only meaningful contributors to the war were the American, British, and German Aircraft.  

And then maybe we can get some Japanese, Russian, and a few more Italian planes added, in say about the year 2004.

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

[Nashwan]

The 2 Russian fighters in AH are both later than the best Spit in AH. I don't think people really want more Spits, they want better ones, more representative of what was actually flying at the stage of the war AAH models.