Flaps.. I can't find any lift.

[Duckwing6]

yeeeehaaaww   maybe i can get the tracking shots now i need to kill with them cal.050's on my D-Hog  

[Lephturn]

Thank you Pyro.    

Yet another example of why HTC rocks.      I've never seen this kind of response from any other game company... ever.

This kind of great feedback/response between the developer and the community will ensure that Aces High continues to evolve.  It's already the best WWII flight-sim IMHO, and the potential is amazing!

How you guys manage this with 6 people is beyond me!  Salute.

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"MY P-47 is a pretty good ship
And she took a round coming 'cross the Channel last trip
I was thinking 'bout my baby and lettin' her rip
Always got me through so far
Well they can ship me all over this great big world
But I'll never find nothing like my North End girl
I'm taking her home with me one day, sir
Soon as we win this war"
 - Steve Earl

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[F4UDOA]

Wow,

You guy's fixing the Hog! To show you how mine I appreciate this I won't wine for a whole week.

By the way, anybody catch speed vision sport flying this week? There is a segment on a F4U get together with the original VF-17 Jolly Rogers. One of the members (I belive Ace George Hendrick) makes the comment about dogfighting with Army A/C that none of them could turn with a F4U above 5k. I taped this but I can't yet convert it to a file. If anyone is interested they usually rerun these episodes on Saturday or Sunday if you get Speed vision.
Great ariel footage as well.

Thanks
F4UDOA

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[Rude]

I can notice a slight diff in lift in the 51 and also the larger aircraft with flaps deployed.

On take off, 20 deg is all u need....flaps on most aircraft allow for increased drag for a power on landing (critical stage of flight ya know ), and not increased lift....the exception I believe is most top wing aircraft, which will produce more lift with flaps deployed.

But hey...what do I know anyway

Cyas Up!

Rude Out!

[skeet]

Reminds me of a story from my father ...

He had to take his spit up for a 'flight test' one day after a bit of an overhaul, and at the top of his first loop he fell into the canopy ... the seat wasn't bolted back down.
Scrunched as he was still clutching the stick or rather the loop at the top of the control column with his toes barely in the rudder pedals he kind of managed to get the plane the right way up only the seat landed on the control rods to the elevator, jamming them. With his feet out in front he had no leverage, and as the elevatros were jammed (with good luck) in the neutral he elected not to bounce up and down to randomly unjam things - it could make it worse ...
 
He very very gently :-) steered the plane back with aileron, rudder and using throttle in bursts for pitch, set up a very, very *very* long flat approach and flew it in.

Nearly 50 years later he reckons he still has this vivid memory of whizzing down the runway with a fire tender on one side and an ambulance on the other ...


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