WWI Plane choice

[MiloMorai]

Rip,



Agree, if it wasn't on the real a/c it should be in the game.

[straffo]

look like it was pretty advanced for it's time

[Devonai]

If one had a full machine shop, how much would it cost to manufacture the SE5 today?

[Squire]

Just some info on the USAS in 1918, both the USAS's 17th and 148th Aero Squadrons flew Sopwith Camels. Captain Elliot White Springs of the 148th scored 12 of his 16 victories flying Camels. It was not just an RAF fighter, and the US personnel did not just fly French aircraft. Also, many flew with the RAF, either as volunteers or as USAS personell on attached duty, and at least 4 became aces on the Se-5a.

Re the SPADs, im sure they will make it in before too long. Its too important of a type not to.

[MiloMorai]

Nice WW1 site, http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/index.php

[RipChord929]

Nice WW1 site, http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/index.php

Yeah I found that site already, There are other good ones out there too...

LOL, nifty exploded view... A bicycle chain, and screw jack, LOL!!! Pretty ingenious use of really simple implements to get the desired results... Kinda impressed with the hispano engine too... Overhead cams w bevel gear and tower shaft cam drives... But no gear reduction for the prop...

Germans were experimenting with superchargers on their straight 8's near the end too...

SE5, SPAD, and Fokker D's were the last evo before the war ended.. Even tho it was only a few yrs, they were whole generations ahead of the earlier planes...  War tends to accelerate things, no doubt!!!

RC

[MiloMorai]

Rip, the Hisso did have reduction gearing for the prop but it like to destroy the gears.

[RipChord929]

I know the SPAD used a gear redux on the same engine... Thought they all (Hispano V8) did, but the original site that you listed, and I viewed, showed none...   ????

I've read that the SPAD VII was pulled from service, a couple of years earlier, because of the gear redux problems... I believe they finally fixed it by switching from straight cut gears, to helical cut...

RC

[Boxboy]

From reports I have read on the net the "camel" did have some quirks that cause many "new" airman to lose their lives, many not to a "torque" problem but rather to a "carburation"  problem on one of the engines used to power it.

More seasoned pilots loved the camel and found it (in their words) "a joy to fly", so we have to be careful that we don't let alot of opinion sneak into the FM of the camel, just model the FM based on the "physics" and let her go.

[RipChord929]

I really don't think ya have to worry Box... They are far more likely to push the easy button, than not...

RC

[Boxboy]

I really don't think ya have to worry Box... They are far more likely to push the easy button, than not...

RC

I really don't want that either, I would like to be as close to the real thing as we can get but not made unrealistically hard because someone "thinks" it should be

[KD303]

Just my tuppence worth...but I'd like to have started with a 1916 plane set with the later models added...er, later.

Sopwith - Pup
Fokker - Eindecker
Royal Aircraft Factory - Fe2b
Nieuport 17
Albatross - DII

Some of the two seater sloths of the day can be added at random 

[Simba]

The 'Fee' would be a great ride. The only 'pusher' two-seater I've ever seen modelled in a flight sim was the Vickers FB5 Gun Bus in Targetware.

No.6 Squadron RFC was the first unit to equip with the Fee, when it took all twelve FE2a 'battleplanes' built on charge from May 1915 onwards; only three were left by the end of the year. All were powered by the 120hp Austro-Daimler engine; the later and far more numerous FE2b first had the 120hp Beardmore, then the 160hp version. The FE2d was powered by the excellent Rolls Royce Eagle engine of 225hp+ but wasn't as highly regarded as the FE2b.

 

[Noir]

you guys are fired, what I want are FRENCH planes   

[MiloMorai]

you guys are fired, what I want are FRENCH planes   

OK you can have a Breguet Type 5 and a Ponnier Type L1.