remodelling the la7

[Tilt]

tail wheel is a free castor type



WWII models did not have the leather sock pictured here

[Tilt]

and fully out






Oh and if you look along the wing you see a little red pin sticking out................. thats the gear down indicator .......one on each side........as well as the onboard indicator light

[Tilt]

see how high it is ......compared to AH it fills the forward armoured screen.

[Tilt]

no metal bars across the middle.........just a thicker bead of glass.

[hazed-]

nice work tilt

[Tilt]

This 3 tank AC had a fuel selector switch

It could only trim rudder and elevator from inside the cockpit

It has a flap indicator (fully variable not stepped)

Guns could be manually primed and cleared.

It had no ammo level indicator.

It had a radio compass (course indicator) and a magnetic compass but no gyro compass.

There was a cockpit light switch.

With Hydraulics failed the gear could still be lowered by air but the flaps were out of action.

It did not have individual control of the wheel brakes (but its airfields did have folk who could grab a wing and push it)

[brady]

Ya nicely done.

[Tilt]

and this





I dont understand it but can tell you it is the out put from a series of wind tunnel tests on an La7

L is the angle the AC was placed at to the wind tunnel flow AOA? (i have a series of photographs showing this)

What Cx and Cy are I am not sure but I suspect Cy has something to do with lift and that may mean Cx has someing to do with drag both of which could be discerned from load cells on the support frames............

Air velocity is constant for all tests

There are some other ancillary graphs with it that I do not understand either.

[F4UDOA]

Tilt,

I think that is a Cl max graph. Looks like about 1.4 which is right with many WW2 fighters IMHO.

[Tilt]

Originally posted by F4UDOA
Tilt,

I think that is a Cl max graph. Looks like about 1.4 which is right with many WW2 fighters IMHO.

What ever that means   ..............    thanks:)

Coefficient of lift?

So what is Cx?

[Midnight]

Originally posted by Tilt
Guns could be manually primed and cleared.

It had no ammo level indicator.

I would guess that if the pilot could manually prime / clear the guns, he could manually check approximate ammo remaining as well.

Originally posted by Tilt
With Hydraulics failed the gear could still be lowered by air but the flaps were out of action.

I hope that HTC models hydraulic systems in all A/C that had them and makes them a damageable system. It would add another level of realism into the game.

[joeblogs]

Why don't we begin by fixing the inaccurate endurance of this plane?

-Blogs

Originally posted by Tilt
tail wheel is a free castor type



WWII models did not have the leather sock pictured here

[Tilt]

Originally posted by joeblogs
Why don't we begin by fixing the inaccurate endurance of this plane?

-Blogs

I suggest you refer to innomminates tests.... its not so durable here............ even if it is difficult to hit........

actually it was a monocoque (all glued together)and structuraly very durable........... it had very few "critical points" structurally


the wings were as thin as a Spitfires yet could with stand more G

Fuel tanks were self sealing and had inert gas from the exhaust sytem pumped into them to quench flame.

Its most vulnerable external machine part was the oil cooler............

[Puke]

Endurance and durable are two different words.

[Shane]

what was their purpose?  the leading edge slats?  that's something pretty new to my conceptions of planes.  trailing edge i see see.... leading edge and the way they're deployed as you showed... ??