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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: AceGec3D on September 19, 2006, 06:13:08 PM
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This is the ultimate German plane, made in January 1945 (i think) The HO-IX is a plane way ahead of its time! AND WE NEED IT ON ACES HIGH!!!
Armed with 4x 40mm cannons, and 500kg bombs on each underwing wrack, the HO-IX has exceptional handling and a top speed of 600mph!!! Able to out-turn a spitfire, its every german WWII pilot to fly it, but now, WE SHOULD BRING THIS CORNERSTONE IN HISTORY TO LIFE!!!
(for more info, go to aceshigh2flyer-btigec.piczo.com)
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It is already in the Il-2 series. None saw combat.
The correct designation is Go229.
"Gotha Go 229 V-3
The third prototype was built therefore by the Gothaer Waggonfabrik, it corresponded as far as possible the V-2. With end of war was the prototype was finished the prototype nearly. It was captured in the factory buildings by the Americans and shipped into the USA. There it stands today in the Garber restoration Facility of the NASM."
With end of war further versions were in the development:
Gotha Go 229 V-4
Two-seat night fighter with a nose fairing for the admission of a radar equipment
Gotha Go 229 V-5
Two-seat fighter-bomber with up to 2.000 bomb load
Gotha Go 229 V-6
Two-seat fighter-bomber with up to 2.000 bomb load
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And this flew operationally when?
This isn't secret weapons of the Luftwaffe :)
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The HO-IX?, we have those already. ;)
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Purdy. Id like it as a LRR plane. I like this though:
(http://p4.piczo.com/img/i140051723_4845_4.jpg)
It reminds me of a.... Rafale is it?
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Canard type planes are an interesting concept, but it doesn't seem like anytime soon before we see it taking over the majority of aircraft designs. Figuring out elevons alone seems like a brain-splitter for laymen like me.
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The only real benefit they have is better stall recovery. The canards stall first, thus dropping the nose, thus recovering from the stall.
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Originally posted by Krusty
The only real benefit they have is better stall recovery. The canards stall first, thus dropping the nose, thus recovering from the stall.
Or if your tail gunner was a pork pie...
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yea, but seriosly, this aircraft would have changed the war DRIMATICLY! and it looks cool :)
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Hi Ace,
>This is the ultimate German plane, made in January 1945 (i think) The HO-IX is a plane way ahead of its time! AND WE NEED IT ON ACES HIGH!!!
Great plane :-) To bridge the time until its introduction to Aces High, you could give the simulator X-Plane a try. It's completely useless in the "fly online and fire your guns at other players" category, but you can make any plane you'd like to see and get a scientific impression on how it might behave in real life.
(It's not like other simulators where you need to know how the plane behaves in real life and then reverse-engineer it in the simulator - you actually forward-engineer the virtual plane, and if you do that well enough, it will be very close to the real thing.)
I actually found a beautiful Horten Ho IX built for X-Plane 6.x a couple of years back, which gave me the impression that the type was a bit difficult with regard to directional stability. That might very well be historically accurate :-)
Regards,
Henning (HoHun)
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Originally posted by AceGec3D
yea, but seriosly, this aircraft would have changed the war DRIMATICLY!
No.