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Offline Scherf

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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #45 on: September 04, 2014, 09:57:58 PM »
Thought some IXs had 2x50s instead of 4x303s, which are they planning?
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #46 on: September 04, 2014, 10:19:20 PM »
From the look of that picture it's the standard C wing or "universal" wing with two Hissos and four .303 Brownings. The Spit16 in AH has the E wing.
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #47 on: September 05, 2014, 03:44:30 AM »
Hmmmm. Well, like I say, 1943-vintage.

All their other birds seem to be late-war, high-alt, heavy-hitter monsters. Wouldn't a Spit XIV have been better?
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #48 on: September 05, 2014, 03:50:34 AM »
Quote from: Scherf on September 05, 2014, 03:44:30 AM
Hmmmm. Well, like I say, 1943-vintage.

All their other birds seem to be late-war, high-alt, heavy-hitter monsters. Wouldn't a Spit XIV have been better?

It would be well matched against the 109K, 190D and P-51D if AH's Spit16 is an indication. We'll see. As Karnak said on the previous page the Spit14 is planned for April, 2015.
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #49 on: September 05, 2014, 03:59:18 AM »
I hope they choose a clipped wing bubble top... That's my favorite.

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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #50 on: September 05, 2014, 06:59:15 AM »
I have to agree with you on that - much as I love the BoB shape, that bubble-canopy, 5-bladed prop, funky-wing Griffon thing is de-Gorgeous.
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #51 on: September 05, 2014, 07:53:16 AM »
Quote from: Lusche on September 03, 2014, 05:00:52 AM
By such standards I never should have signed up with AH either ;)

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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #52 on: September 05, 2014, 08:49:31 AM »
Quote from: GScholz on September 05, 2014, 03:59:18 AM
I hope they choose a clipped wing bubble top... That's my favorite.

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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #53 on: September 06, 2014, 04:05:04 AM »
Found a video of her. That enlarged rudder and stab really adds to the "sharkyness".  :aok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kivI5JFZxs
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #54 on: September 06, 2014, 04:40:45 AM »
Can't say I like clipped and bubble canopy Spits.  I'll go with 'Ginger' Lacey's response when presented with bubble top Spit XIVs in Burma, something to the effect of "It isn't a bloody Spitfire."  He rejected the bubble top XIVs so they went to a squadron flying war weary Hurricane Mk IIs and Lacey's squadron got razor backed XIVs.
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #55 on: September 06, 2014, 04:59:49 AM »
I agree that is is a different look than earlier Spits, but I still think it is very beautiful, and menacing like a shark. I've never liked the look of the Malcolm hood. It disrupts the lines of the canopy and looks like an afterthought... Which it also was. I've often wondered why a bubble canopy wasn't introduced earlier in Spits like the VII and VIII.
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #56 on: September 06, 2014, 07:03:18 AM »
Vintage Wings of Canada Spit XVI



See it occasionally as it is based across the river in Gatineau.
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #57 on: December 04, 2014, 01:03:52 PM »
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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #58 on: December 04, 2014, 01:38:00 PM »
$50 ???

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Re: DCS Bf-109 K-4 is coming soon
« Reply #59 on: December 04, 2014, 02:38:38 PM »
Quote from: jolly22 on December 04, 2014, 01:38:00 PM
$50 ???

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Yep...not cheap.  But about as high fedelity as you can get.
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