Wep... removing systems...?

[SKurj]

I have read a few pilot tales about their experience in ww2..

1.  Many F6F's had the wep tanks removed, to reduce weight

2.  Sakai, mentions removing even the radio for one trip to reduce weight, as they had to maximize their flight endurance.

3.  Early spits... sometimes had unreliable hispanos removed

Ok mebbe removing the radio is abit ridiculous...
But how about the option to choose not to fill wep, or remove weapon systems, where it can be proven to have actually occured...

Not really sure how this would be proven..  I am sure many of the players have a ton more data than I on this subject.


SKurj

[Karnak]

Originally posted by SKurj
3.  Early spits... sometimes had unreliable hispanos removed

Those were Spitfire Mk Ib and Mk IIb examples.  As they were very rare to begin with I doubt HTC will ever model them.

[SKurj]

See there ya go...  I have anecodtal evidence this happened on spit V's too...

ahh well

SKurj

[Angus]

If my memory serves me, even whole squads of Zeros had their radios removed. They were almost useless anyway.

Hurricane pilots in Burma also removed 4 of their .303 brownings (if not more) and fixed extra fuel tanks to make the Hurricane IIB more of a match against Japanese fighters, so basically they turned a IIB into a IIA .

[Karnak]

SKurj,

It did happen on Spitfire Mk Vcs flying out of Malta, but not for lack of reliability.  The pilots defending Malta felt that two 20m  cannon provided enough firepower and the other two were unrequired extra weight.  They also had ammo supply problems on Malta and two guns use less ammo that four guns.

The reliablity issues on the Hispanos installed in Spitfires had been solved by the time the Spitfire Mk V entered service.

[SKurj]

Ahh mebbe thats it Karnak, mebbe it was the mg's were removed.

I haven't bothered to read the book again, but it was Blue Skies, about a canuck who was at Malta fer awhile


SKurj