ok... if we can't make early planes usable...

[lazs2]

then how bout we add the f8 bearcat to the planeset...

think about it... a late war plane that is actually fun to fly!  what a concept..  not so fast that the terminally timid couldn't run away and.... certainly every bit as "historical as the (lol) dee 9.  

they made more of em than dee 9's and 300 were in combat (if yu count being on carriers in the ocean"being in combat")  they were in VF 19 before the end of the war... hundreds were being delivered and flown in the states before the end of the war.

estimates are between 700 and 1000 were built before the end of the war and it was just bad luck for the sim that, unlike the dee 9, they weren't straffed at the factory or delivery point  and thus "saw combat".

anyhow.. they would be a fun plane for the late war arena as it is.
lazs

[Ripsnort]

ohhh, you missed a great CAP event yesterday, all early war!

[-ammo-]

Hmm, the bearcat. That would certainly add more flavor to the arena, and imagine the comic relief on the UBB and on channel 1!:)

[lazs2]

rip.. if i can't just click on it and take off then i will allways 'miss' it.
lazs

[nopoop]

If a bearcat was available, I wouldn't fly anything else.

[Urchin]

I'd like to see a Bearcat eventually, Tigercat too if it was actually in the war (I've touched both of them- I know that sounds weird ).  Both beautiful airplanes... the F7F Tigercat is freaking gigantic.  By the way, the best air musuem I've ever been to for WW2 planes is the Pensacola NAS Museum... it has just about EVERY WW2 USN plane, plus a N1K2, a P40B, and a couple zekes.  

All right out there on the floor, you can walk up and touch the planes.

[Puke]

I'd love to see an F8F Bearcat!

[Karnak]

The Spitfire Mk XIV already meets you're requirements lazs.  It can't run so it has to fight.

[-ammo-]

BTW, for equal time, lets petition for the A7M Reppu.  Heh, if we are going out there on a limb for a bearcat, lets just ask for  our cake and ask to eat it too:)

[TeeDog]

Question????
190D9 was used in combat in WWII, but I believe that the F8F Wasn't used at all.

The First F8F Squadron VF-19 was onboard the carrier USS Langley, enroute across the Pacific, when the war ended on August 16, 1945. So, it never saw combat in the War. I don't think Aces High should have any plane that wasn't used in combat... Now since the D9 only had 700 made....maybe it should be a peak plane like the F4U-4 is.

[llyr69]

Combat use has little or nothing to do with what planes are selected for inclusion in AH.

 I believe it's more related to filling a "niche" in the arena.

That said, I think an F8F would be fun as hell, and a RE2005, and a Brewster, and a KI-84, and the Emily, and the B25, and the A-26 Invader, and ....well, I better stop the wish list..............

[Innominate]

Originally posted by llyr69
Combat use has little or nothing to do with what planes are selected for inclusion in AH.

Any plane that never dropped a bomb, or shot down an enemy fighter in ww2 doesnt belong in aces high.  There are plenty of good aircraft left to be added.  Planes which had an impact on the war.  The F8F isnt one of them.

[TheFatz]

Any plane that never dropped a bomb, or shot down an enemy fighter in ww2 doesnt belong in aces high. There are plenty of good aircraft left to be added. Planes which had an impact on the war. The F8F isnt one of them.

Stupid C-47's.

[Furious]

Since the MA is a fantasy anyway, I think we should have any plane in full production or delivered to operational units before wars end.


F.

[J_A_B]

Early planes can be made useful.  I've always agreed with Lazs' opinion that the early jobs should have a place of their own to fly.

J_A_B