Author Topic: THANK YOU FOR GABBY'S RAZORBACK! :) (Read 512 times)

funked · « **on:** April 14, 2001, 01:37:00 PM »

Virtual Northolt Wing is happy to have yet another plane of a former pilot of the real Northolt Wing.

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FunkedUp, Officer Commanding, 308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF
Northolt Wing (1st Polish Fighter Wing)

"We had been forced to fight. And now that we are fighting, we thought, we'll teach you rotten Huns how to fight. We'll shoot your pissy little fighters out of the sky, we'll rip your dirty great bombers to shreds, we'll make you wish to Christ you'd never heard of the aeroplane!"

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-ammo- · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2001, 03:52:00 PM »

quit trying to steal our cookies, funked

go away you silly toy airplane pilots..

<G,D,R>

Lephturn · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2001, 05:56:00 PM »

Hehehe... I am going to LOVE this bird. I already do.

Thanks in advance HTC!

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Sancho · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2001, 11:05:00 PM »

Everyone knows Gabby never got any kills until he started flying the jug--a real man's airplane.

BTW, thanks HTC!
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"Zemke's Wolfpack"

Hell hath no fury like 8 50 cals and 18 fire breathing cylinders.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2001, 11:55:00 PM »

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's the saddest day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now for sure I will never have Gabby's late war camo with bubble top and inv stripes.

Pyro hates me, I have no friends

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SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2001, 12:00:00 AM »

Oups, I forgot to say that the new P-47D-11 is remarkably well realized, WTG HTC!

hblair · « **Reply #6 on:** April 15, 2001, 02:12:00 AM »

Jugs are for girls.

<g,d,r>

funked · « **Reply #7 on:** April 15, 2001, 04:09:00 AM »

By Gabby's own admission, he didn't have the skills required to be a killer in the Spitfire.

Seeker · « **Reply #8 on:** April 15, 2001, 04:10:00 AM »

Can some one do a brief run down on the differences between these planes?

AW only had one Jug, and I never flew it (it was a dog in arena play in AW).

Which one would you fly, when and why??

thanks.

Sancho · « **Reply #9 on:** April 15, 2001, 04:45:00 AM »

Advantages? The D-11 will be lighter. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I know the D-5 was about 1100 lbs lighter than the D-25 and the D-11 wasn't too different from the D-5. And the razorback jugs were more stable in turns than the bubbletops (before the dorsal fillet was added).

Drawbacks? *Slightly* less HP and a non-existent 6 o'clock view. Also it had the earlier and less efficient non-paddleblade propeller.

Hopefully this D-11 will have a hot-rodded engine that can pull 72" MP and retrofitted with a paddleblade prop.

One other thing, I don't have my books available right now and I don't remember if the D-11 had underwing pylons for bombs/tanks mounted from the factory. The screenshots shown lack underwing pylons. Anyone?

After we get this plane, I will probably use the D-30 for air-to-ground work and the D-11 for sweeps and escort missions. I might take the D-25 up to add some latin spice every now and then. The 56th FG will be spending a lot of time in this plane, which wears our historical namesake's markings.

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Sancho
56th Fighter Group "Zemke's Wolfpack"

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juzz · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2001, 07:43:00 AM »

Underwing pylons were factory-fitted starting with the D-15 I think.

Lephturn · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2001, 12:22:00 PM »

Personally I hope we don't have the under wing pylons. I want that baby clean and polished, with modified waste gates.

Using a Jug for A2G is sacrilidge! What a waste of a superior machine.

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funked · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2001, 01:09:00 PM »

D-11 came only with a centerline hardpoint from the factory. I think some were retrofitted with wing pylons.

FYI D-11 had ADI but not the "paddle" prop.

hazed- · « **Reply #13 on:** April 15, 2001, 09:40:00 PM »

burn the jug

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Daff · « **Reply #14 on:** April 15, 2001, 10:34:00 PM »

Yes..give us 72" MAP! (Or at least give the D-30 it's 64" MAP it should have)

Daff

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