Author Topic: Time for the Brewster? (Read 9349 times)

LLv34_Camouflage · « **on:** April 30, 2002, 11:06:09 PM »

Hasse Wind in his "BW-393". Wind is the world's top scoring Brewster ace with 39 confirmed victories. He achieved a total of 75 victories, flying in Finland's Elite Squadron Lentolaivue 24. He received the highest military decoration of the Finnish Armed Forces - the Mannerheim Cross - twice.

Now with all the early pacific war planes coming in the next patch, I think it would be great to have the Brewster model 239, the export model of the F2A-1 in Aces High.

A few good reasons:

1) The Finns achieved a kill/loss ratio of 32:1 in the Brewsters during over three years of fighting (June 25th 1941 - September 4th 1944) against the numerically superior Soviet Air Force. The Brewster earned the nickname "Pearl of the Sky" by its pilots.

2) The Brewster won the contract competition for the first monoplane fighter of the US Navy in 1938, against the F4F Wildcat.

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Gordon Firebaugh, former Naval Aircraft Pilot with VF-2, later Captain USN:
I flew the F4F after we got switched around in early 1942. I got shot down over Santa Isabel ... and I've often thought that, I wish, I'd been better off in a Brewster. I think it would have matched the Zero - the F4F was heavier and didn't have the turning radius. During that fight, I met up with five Zeros, shot down three before I got shot down. I spent a long time in the water, until I got to land and met one of the coastwatchers...

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Greg "Pappy" Boyington:
"It was a DOG!" ... "But the early models, before they weighed it all down with armorplate, radios and other toejam, they were pretty sweet little ships. Not real fast, but the little diddlys could turn and roll in a phonebooth. Oh yeah--sweet little ship; but some engineer went and diddlyed it up."

3) It will have extensive use in AH scenarios.

4) It looks like a bumble bee with the yellow east front stripes.

Here is some good information on the Brewster: http://www.danford.net/buff.htm

HTC, please consider adding the Brewster in Finnish Air Force markings into Aces High.

Thank you,

Camo

brady · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2002, 11:58:06 PM »

I agree 100%:)

Urchin · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2002, 12:28:14 AM »

I agree 200%.

fats · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2002, 02:10:22 AM »

// fats

Karnak · « **Reply #4 on:** May 01, 2002, 02:16:24 AM »

I was actually thinking the same thing the other night while browsing through "Finnish Aces of WWII" by Osprey books.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 01, 2002, 03:28:00 AM »

I agree at least 300%

ergRTC · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2002, 09:50:42 AM »

Yep, I think that would be a sweet little addition.

i am gonna have to agree at...... 150%

Mitsu · « **Reply #7 on:** May 01, 2002, 10:15:50 AM »

I agree 400%.

mit

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 01, 2002, 11:08:28 AM »

i love their language

(must been all the dogfights)

we need the light version
the one used by the finnish ?

ra · « **Reply #9 on:** May 01, 2002, 12:51:55 PM »

That guy shot down 3 of 5 Zeros before getting shot down, and he says 'if only I'd had a Buffalo'. Talk about high self-esteem.

Dr Zhivago · « **Reply #10 on:** May 01, 2002, 01:05:07 PM »

I agree, Its time to bring Brewster to AH. Maybe we will see it at next patch

Replicant · « **Reply #11 on:** May 01, 2002, 02:04:01 PM »

FYI, I believe that the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon (North London) are revealing a Brewster Buffalo for display sometime in 2003!

Wmaker · « **Reply #12 on:** May 01, 2002, 02:58:28 PM »

I'll add to Camo's post...

5) There was a time when AH didn't have early-war planeset at all. With the introduction of the Hurricanes AH's slowest fighter's top speed dropped about 25 mph. Now being about 325 mph. When slowest fighter speeds in AH were 50 mph or more higher than Brewster's top speed (298 mph) I wanted to be realistic and didn't believe in the introduction of the Brewster. But now I think we could do at least one more 25 mph hop backwards in fighter top speed.

Brewster Model 239 is the only plane I *really* want. It is always great that new planes are added and I'll fly and have fun with them for a while. But Brewster would be so much more than that for me and many many other finns.

Please HTC, make our dream come true!

Mitsu · « **Reply #13 on:** May 01, 2002, 03:37:29 PM »

Yasuhiko Kuroe has shot down Australian Brewster Buffalo by Ki-44-I "Shoki" in 1/15/1942.
That was the first kill of Ki-44 Shoki.

"Show me the Shoki and Buffalo!"

-Mitsu

Mitsu · « **Reply #14 on:** May 01, 2002, 03:41:54 PM »

http://pigeonh.free.fr/ki442.htm