You are referring to the haptic thread...
No, I'm eluding to the part where you asserted there was nothing wrong with Haptic Feedback as it was modeled (as it turned out, because you preferred it that way) hlbly demonstrated through independent research and consultation with an expert that it was incorrect, HTC corrected it, and then at a later date you used every logical fallacy and argumentative trap you could think of to try to humiliate him and save face.
Don't think you can re-image those sequence of events, troll boy.
Let us see anyone quantify the drag from the dive flaps. Since we lack the required test information it should be interesting. I'm sure tests were done and HTC may have a copy but we don't. The UK Air Ministry in 1953, after reviewing all the data on dive flaps available to them, concluded that it was impossible to predict the effect of dive flaps throughout the flight regime because there were too many variables interacting, only flight testing can give conclusive results. So far we have information that there was drag and there was a pitch up when deployed after compression. The first time I saw this discussed here was Feb 2002. I think HTC is aware of all the issues, including drag.
Zomg, now you really have gone full retard. You have absolutely no imagination or insight whatsoever do you. So no drag should be modeled because its behaviour could not be predicted without real world flight testing of an actual P-38 in every flight regime?
As accurate as HTC's flight simulation is it is still a model, an approximation, a representation. Do you really think they haven't been forced to use reasonable, educated assumptions and approximate calculations in other areas of flight modeling given the absence of actual specific flight test data?
This is absolutely no criticism of HTC by the way, if you're listening. I think their work is fantastic given the mostly non-flying antiques they are modeling, but are you really suggesting that the drag could not be reasonably calculated through an abstract model of some kind?
Congratulations FLS you win. Another excellent, reasonably investigated and presented issue discovered by a player of this game destroyed by your pedantic monkey business. Of course you have rather demonstrated what you're all about in order to do it haven't you? Good luck with the repairs to your future credibility.
