Late War aircraft.

[fullmetalbullet]

Now as HT said to me about aircraft that have seen service to be considered or added. What aircraft would people love to see?

Keep in mind aircraft have had to of seen some kind of service in WW2, so no Do-335 no Ho-229.

Me personally i would love to see the F7F Tigercat.

[guncrasher]

Now as HT said to me about aircraft that have seen service to be considered or added. What aircraft would people love to see?

Keep in mind aircraft have had to of seen some kind of service in WW2, so no Do-335 no Ho-229.

Me personally i would love to see the F7F Tigercat.

cool another poll.  what happened to the last one?


semp

[fullmetalbullet]

cool another poll.  what happened to the last one?


semp

no poll just seeing what people would like to see. i asked HT about that criteria. no rules but htc would like them to have seen service.

[fbWldcat]

The TC never saw combat in WWII. It did see Korea, though.

Edit: after looking through some other threads, it looks like in my time since being away from the game, we had a poll. Options included the tigercat. If its true, disregard what I said, I was going by past criteria. <S>

[fullmetalbullet]

The TC never saw combat in WWII. It did see Korea, though.

Edit: after looking through some other threads, it looks like in my time since being away from the game, we had a poll. Options included the tigercat. If its true, disregard what I said, I was going by past criteria. <S>

True but it did see some service.

Edit; what other aircraft saw service in WW2 but didnt really get the chance to shoot at enemy aircraft?

[fbWldcat]

Show me proof. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've never read anything stating that it saw anymore than its brethren during production and shipment by the time the war ended.

[fullmetalbullet]

Show me proof. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've never read anything stating that it saw anymore than its brethren during production and shipment by the time the war ended.

I read in an old post someone sayin it saw service with the USMC and it was sent on patrol. thats about all i remember. I dont remember who said that either. i would have to look it up.

Edit; i also remember in an old info book i had when i was in Airforce ROTC. now i dont know how accurate the info is, but it stated delivery of the first F7F-1s began in april 1944 but only a few reached their squadrons before the F7F-2Ns began production.

None of the F7F-2Ns saw any service in WW2 from what i can find. Again I dont know how accurate the info is. I am currently looking up more info at the moment on it.

[EagleDNY]

If the Do-335 doesn't qualify for consideration, the F7F should not either.   The history is strikingly similar - a long development cycle with a lot of teething problems that kept the early models from being sent into combat (the F7Fs kept failing the acceptance trials for one reason or another).  By the time the design was perfected and a production version started, it was too late to see combat.  The only carrier-cleared version was the F7F-4, which was way too late for WW2 service. 

[Karnak]

If the Do-335 doesn't qualify for consideration, the F7F should not either.   The history is strikingly similar - a long development cycle with a lot of teething problems that kept the early models from being sent into combat (the F7Fs kept failing the acceptance trials for one reason or another).  By the time the design was perfected and a production version started, it was too late to see combat.  The only carrier-cleared version was the F7F-4, which was way too late for WW2 service. 

Difference being that the Do335 never entered either service nor production while the F7F was in service and en route to Japan when the war ended.

Granted, that would not have been so had the Japanese surrendered on the same day as the Germans did.

[Butcher]

Now as HT said to me about aircraft that have seen service to be considered or added. What aircraft would people love to see?

Keep in mind aircraft have had to of seen some kind of service in WW2, so no Do-335 no Ho-229.

Me personally i would love to see the F7F Tigercat.

In a wishlist, none of this matters if the aircraft wasn't in operational status in 1945. If there was a hypothetical 1946 era - then anything is possible.
Problem is piston engine would be easily phased out by the jets, however the biggest key would be most of the data from this "end war period" has been lost or forgotten and would be extremely hard to capitalize on.

[AWwrgwy]

In a wishlist, none of this matters if the aircraft wasn't in operational status in 1945. If there was a hypothetical 1946 era - then anything is possible.

Which criteria would include the Do-335....


wrongway

[Butcher]

Which criteria would include the Do-335....


wrongway

1945/1946.

I call it the "What would happen if?" period, so much win though.

[Karnak]

1945/1946.

I call it the "What would happen if?" period, so much win though.

Where do you propose to the the flight modeling data for the German and Japanese aircraft that could have been in service in late 1945 and in 1946?

[Tyrannis]

I requested the F7F awhile ago, only a single f7f flew in hostile skies during ww2. and even then, It did not receive any kills, or see any combat action.

[MAINER]

F8F please