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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #75 on: September 22, 2014, 06:25:48 AM »
You gents need to do a better job reading the data sheets,


You hurt my feelings  :cry


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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #76 on: September 22, 2014, 09:25:31 AM »

You hurt my feelings  :cry


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My deepest apologies!

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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #77 on: September 22, 2014, 09:30:46 AM »
Widewing you should know by now that Lusche struggles with graphs and tables.....

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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #78 on: September 22, 2014, 09:36:45 AM »
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If I'm forced to have to deal with f86s and mig15s when all I want to fly is a P40C p47d11 f4u-1 etc, than I might as well do it for free in a game like War Thunder.




Probably could have made myself Clearer, but I made that other post from my phone on the train.

I don't believe that the LWMA will have Korean War jets in it. They would require their own arena....
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #79 on: September 22, 2014, 09:37:45 AM »
Widewing you should know by now that Lusche struggles with graphs and tables.....

LOLOLOL
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #80 on: September 22, 2014, 09:38:21 AM »
Widewing you should know by now that Lusche struggles with graphs and tables.....


I can call myself  lucky that my own charts so rarely get checked for errors by other players  ;)

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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #81 on: September 22, 2014, 05:10:13 PM »
So our version would just have 4 x .50 cals.  Hardly a huge perk monster threat.

+1 to add it.

With the concentrated firepower that nose mounted center line guns bring to the table, 4x .50s pack a nice punch.

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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #82 on: September 22, 2014, 05:19:52 PM »
With the concentrated firepower that nose mounted center line guns bring to the table, 4x .50s pack a nice punch



Nose mounted center line guns?  :headscratch:
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #83 on: September 22, 2014, 05:32:30 PM »

Nose mounted center line guns?  :headscratch:

got it confused with the F7F that had the nose mounted machine guns.
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #84 on: September 22, 2014, 06:19:08 PM »
got it confused with the F7F that had the nose mounted machine guns.

F7F... Another beast.

More firepower than the Mossie, much faster, much better climb and acceleration. If the F7F were to be modeled, it would need to be perked at least as much as the Tempest. 2,000 lb bomb on center line, and two 1,000 lb bombs under the wings. That's 4k added to the stout fire power...

394 mph at SL, climb in WEP approaching 5,000 fpm. Add to that four 20mm and four .50 cal... Potentially more dangerous than the Tempest at the hit and run game....
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #85 on: September 22, 2014, 06:34:42 PM »
F7F... Another beast.

More firepower than the Mossie, much faster, much better climb and acceleration.
Our mossie VI is a 1943 plane. If you want to compare F7F it to the 1946 Mossie offspring - try the Hornet.
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #86 on: September 22, 2014, 08:18:38 PM »
Our mossie VI is a 1943 plane. If you want to compare F7F it to the 1946 Mossie offspring - try the Hornet.

The Hornet was post war, the F7F-1 and F7F-2N were fully operational before Japan surrendered... IE: NOT post war.
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #87 on: September 23, 2014, 12:11:18 PM »
I don't believe that the LWMA will have Korean War jets in it. They would require their own arena....

He was saying there would be a new arena, but it would be the death of the current WWII arenas, and I agree. Adding a Korean War arena would, I think, lead to everyone flying in that arena and abandoning the current WWII arenas, which I think would be a very sad ending to what a lot of us love about Aces High.

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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #88 on: September 23, 2014, 12:26:18 PM »
He was saying there would be a new arena, but it would be the death of the current WWII arenas, and I agree. Adding a Korean War arena would, I think, lead to everyone flying in that arena and abandoning the current WWII arenas, which I think would be a very sad ending to what a lot of us love about Aces High.

I don't think the Korean war would be as popular as WWII, as most of the WWII plane set would not be appropriate to Korea and thus not available. For instance, the P-51H would be a great nearly-made-it-into-combat plane to introduce as a highly perked ride in the LWMA, but it was not used in Korea, so putting it in there as a (presumably) un-perked plane would be iffy. Thus the best niche for it and many planes of roughly the same kind (advanced prop planes and very early jets from the end of war till 1950 or so) would be as very perked "what-might-have-been" planes in the LWMA.
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Re: F8F-1 Standard Characteristics... A genuine monster
« Reply #89 on: September 23, 2014, 12:42:17 PM »
I don't think the Korean war would be as popular as WWII


It certainly wasn't in AW.

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