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Help and Support Forums => Aces High Bug Reports => Topic started by: Schutt on October 23, 2004, 10:03:38 AM
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When switching to plane type icon mode, a friendly fm2 shows up as F4F.
Not sure for enemy fm2s though.
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not a bug, that's just the way it's always been.
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FM-2 are F4F's just a different manufacturer... kinda like the difference between a TBF and a TBM... if you use the Grumman naming system I think the FM-2 corresponds to somthing like the F4F-7 or somthing (I'd have to go look it up)
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FM-2 is NOT the same as the F4F.
It is a later model, with an improved engine, better performance, and even has WEP (which the F4F does not have).
As far as I recall, I thought all FM-2s had their own icon, but it's been a while since I remember.
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Krusty's right.
The FM-1 was the GM equivalent of the F4F-4.
The FM-2 was the GM equivalent of the Grumman designed XF4F-8 improved version.
It was manufactured almost until the end of the war for escort carrier use.
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FM2's and F4F's are the same... the FM-2 is a later model of the F4F-4 we have in the game, but it's still a F4F. Unless I'm remembering things all wrong.
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Pulling it right of The Hamlyn Concise Guide to American Aircraft of WWII...might be more authoritative sources, but...
F4F-4 (by Grumman) was equivalent to the FM-1 (by General Motors).
righty
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... I'm not saying that the F4F-4 and the FM-2 are the same plane... I'm saying that are both different models of the F4F line of aircraft... thus it is not unusual that they share the same icon.
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Ah yes, point well taken. Kind of like the 190 series or the F4Us--they share the same icon. But, hard to say they are the same plane in an absolute sense.
righty
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If i recall the FM-2 was an F4F-8 manufactured by General Motors. Just off the top of my head though, nothing to back it up.
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1922-1962 System
Airplanes
examples (1923) TB3F-1S HO4S-1 WF-2
(5) Status or class prefix - H -
(1) Type or class TB O W
(4) Manufacturer type sequence 3 4 [1]
(2) Manufacturer F S F
(3) Aircraft configuration sequence 1 1 2
(6) Special purpose suffix S - -
note: the numbers in parentheses indicate the order of adoption of each portion
Status/class prefix
H Helicopter
L Glider
N 1st-line aircraft assigned to reserve
X Experimental
Y Prototype
Type or Class - Note: "V" prefix not included, since it was only used
for administrative purposes
A Ambulance 1943
A Attack 1946-1962
B Bomber 1931-1943
BF Bomber-Fighter 1934-1937
BT Bomber-Torpedo (to A) 1942-1945
DS Anti-submarine drone 1959-1962
F Fighter 1922-1962
G Transport, single-engine 1939-1941
G Flight refuelling tanker 1958-1962
HC Crane helicopter 1951-1955
J Transport (to R) 1928-1931
J Utility 1931-1962
JR Utility transport 1935-1962
M Marine expeditionare 1922-1923
N Trainer 1922-1960
O Observation 1922-1962
OS Observation-Scout 1935-1945
P Patrol 1923-1962
PB Patrol Bomber 1935-1962
PTB Patrol Torpedo-Bomber 1937
R Racer 1922-1928
R Transport 1931-1962
RO Rotorcycle 1954-1959
S Scout 1922-1946
S Anti-submarine 1951-1962
SB Scout Bomber 1934-1946
SN Scout-Trainer 1939-1962
SO Scout-Observation 1935-1946
T Torpedo 1922-1935
T Trainer 1948-1962
T Transport 1927-1930
TB Torpedo-Bomber 1935-1946
TD Target Drone 1942-1946
TS Torpedo-Scout 1943
U Utility 1955-1962
U Unpiloted drone 1946-1955
W Airborne Early Warning 1952-1962
Manufacturer's Letters
A Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company 1922
A Allied Aviation Corporation (gliders only) 1941-1943
A Atlantic Fokker Corporation (American Fokker) 1927-1930
A Brewster Aeronautical Corporation 1935-1943
A General Aviation Corporation (formerly Atlantic) 1930-1932
A Noorduyn Aviation, Ltd. (Canada) 1946
B Beech Aircraft Company 1937-1945
B Boeing Aircraft Company 1923-1959
B Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company 1942-1944
B Aerial Engineering Corporation (Booth or Bee Line) 1922
BS Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company (England) 1922
C Cessna Aircraft Corporation (also E) 1943
C Culver Aircraft Corporation 1943-1946
C Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company 1922-1946
C De Havilland of Canada, Ltd. 1955-1956
CH Caspar-Werke Gmbh (Germany) 1922
D Douglas Aircraft Corporation 1922-1962
D Frankfort Sailplane Company (target drones) 1945-1946
D McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (to H) 1942-1946
D Radioplane Corporation (drones) 1943-1962
DH De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. (England) 1927-1931
DW Dayton-Wright Airplane Company 1923
E Bellanca Aircraft Corporation 1931-1937
E Cessna Aircraft Corporation (formerly C) 1951-1962
E Detroit Aircraft Corporation (to Great Lakes) 1928
E Edo Aircraft Corporation 1943-1946
E G. Elias & Brothers, Inc. 1922-1924
E Gould Aeronautical Corporation (gliders) 1942-1945
E Hiller Aircraft Corporation (helicopters) 1948-1962
E Piper Aircraft Corporation (airplanes) (also O/P) 1941-1945
E Pratt-Read (gliders) 1942-1945
F Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation 1931-1962
G A.G.A. Aviation Corporation (gliders) 1942
G Bell Aircraft Corporation (for Bell-built Great Lakes) 1935-1936
G Eberhart Aeroplane & Motor Company 1927-1928
G Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation 1922
G Globe Aircraft Corporation (target drones) 1946-1959
G Goodyear Aircraft Corporation 1942-1962
G Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation (ex-Detroit) 1929-1935
G Gyrodyne Co. of America (drones, rotorcycles, to N) 1960
H Howard Aircraft Company 1941-1944
H McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (formerly D) 1946-1962
H Snead and Company (gliders) 1942
J Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corporation 1929-1935
J North American Aviation Corporation (successor to 1937-1962
General Aviation)
K Fairchild Aircraft Corporation (Kreider-Reisner) 1937-1942
K Kaiser Cargo, Inc. (Fleetwings Division) 1943-1945
L Bell Aircraft Corporation (helicopters after 1946) 1939-1962
M General Motors Corporation (Eastern Aircraft Division) 1942-1945
N Gyrodyne Co. of America Inc. (drones, rotorcycles) 1960
N Naval Aircraft Factory 1922-1945
O Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (Plant B) 1931-1950
O Piper Aircraft Corporation (also E/P) 1960
O Viking Flying Boat Corporation 1929-1936
P Piasecki Helicopter Corp. (formerly P-V Engineering) 1946-1960
P Piper Aircraft Corporation (gliders) 1942-1943
P Pitcairn Autogyro Corporation 1931-1932
P P-V Engineering Forum (later Piasecki, Vertol) 1944-1962
P Vertol Aircraft Corporation (formerly Piasecki, P-V; 1956-1962
to Boeing 1960)
P Spartan Aircraft Company 1940-1941
PL George Parnall & Company (England) 1922
Q Bristol Aeronautical Corporation (gliders) 1941-1943
Q Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation 1928-1962
Q Stinson Aircraft Corporation (to Convair, 1942) 1934-1936
Q Charles Ward Hall, Inc. 1926
R Aeronca Aircraft Corporation (gliders) 1942
R American Aviation Corporation (gliders) 1942
R Brunswick-Balke-Collender Corporation 1942-1943
R Ford Motor Company 1927-1932
R Interstate Aircraft & Engineering Corporation (drones) 1942-1962
R Maxson-Brewster Corporation 1939-1940
R Radioplane Division, Northrop Corp. (target drones) 1943-1962
R Ryan Aeronautical Company 1941-1946
RO Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali Romeo 1933
S Schweizer Aircraft Corporation (gliders) 1941
S Sikorsky Aviation Corporation (helicopters after 1943) 1928-1962
S Stearman Aircraft Company (later Boeing-Wichita, 1939) 1934-1945
S Stout Engineering Laboratories 1922
S Sperry Gyroscope Company (target drones) 1950
S Supermarine 1943
T New Standard Aircraft Corporation 1930-1934
T Northrop Aircraft, Inc. 1944
T The Northrop Corporation (later Douglas-El Segundo) 1933-1937
T Temco Aircraft Corporation 1956
T Timm Aircraft Corporation 1941-1943
T Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation 1922
U Chance Vought Corporation (now Ling-Temco-Vought) 1922-1962
V Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (Vega, Plant A) 1942-1962
V Canadian Vickers, Ltd. 1942-1945
V Vultee Aircraft, Inc. (to Consolidated as Convair, Y, 1942)1941
VK Vickers, Ltd. (England) 1922
W Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Ltd. 1942-1945
W Waco Aircraft Corporation (gliders after 1942) 1934-1945
W Wright Aeronautical Corporation 1922-1926
X Cox-Klemin Aircraft Corporation 1922-1924
Y Consolidated (to Convair 1942) 1926-1942
Y Convair (Consolidated-Stonson-Vultee) 1942-1962
Y General Dynamics (General Dynamics-Convair est. 1961) 1961-1962
Z Pennsylvania Aircraft Syndicate ?