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Offline Scot

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« on: September 11, 2002, 01:34:25 PM »

Offline mosgood

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« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2002, 03:57:43 PM »
I have often thought the same thing.

Offline Karnak

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« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2002, 06:46:14 PM »
The climb rate they have listed for the Spitfire LF.Mk IX is way, way too low.
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2002, 06:57:34 PM »
All the data is scewed. Very impressive.

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« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2002, 02:23:55 PM »
3100 fpm initial ?

What are they smoking ?

Weakness of spitfire: High altitude handling ?
heheheheh talk about smoking crack...

Oh, in case you didn't know, Spitfire can deliver devastating mix of bombs and rockets. 2 of each !!!

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« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2002, 02:33:38 PM »
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

:)

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« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2002, 02:43:22 PM »
They think "Wuerger" means "Shrike"???

That's a freaking missle from Vietnam...

Rip- the graphics look nice... that's the cover.

Everything else is the content, thusly the book, and it's very, very, very.... EXTREMELY poorly written. :)

Of course, it's MS... I expected nothing more.
-SW

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« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2002, 02:44:35 PM »
fd ski,

They are Merlin 66 Spits, so in fairness their high altitude handling will suffer, especially with clipped wings.

Apparently they think the Spitfire LF.Mk IXe could carry eight RPs.  I've seen that on Spitfire Mk XIVs, never on IXs.

Initial climb rate on the Fw190 is screwed too, but the P-47 looks OK.  Seems M$ is continuing their CFS tradition where they grossly undermodel non-US aircraft.  In CFS II that took the method of counting fuel weight in the Japanese aircraft, but not the US aircraft.
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« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2002, 03:02:59 PM »
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Rip- the graphics look nice... that's the cover.

Everything else is the content, thusly the book, and it's very, very, very.... EXTREMELY poorly written. :)

Of course, it's MS... I expected nothing more.
-SW


Glad you got the joke. ;)

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« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2002, 06:10:07 PM »
content may be incorrect, but the layout is good...

if it was correct it would be better that AH data...