Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: folkwufe on January 31, 2007, 06:27:43 PM
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I think we should have a couple more jets... like the p-80 shooting star, and the russian devil's broomstick (i forgot the model name), and maybe the japanese kikka. any inputs?
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None of them did see any combat in WW2. So it's a big NO.
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the devil's broomstick was made in like '43 and the shooting star i think came of the production line in like '45... im not sure about the kikka
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The Kikka was a prototype that never would have made production because Japanese industry was so far gone at that point in the war they could barely keep piston-engined planes from falling out of the sky.
P-80 is a post-war plane. It never saw any action in WW2, because it was too precious. They had a scarce amount of them and didn't want to lose one, so even though they MIGHT have made it into the closing months of the war (after all the fighting was done) they weren't allowed to.
The "devil's broomstick" was a rocket fighter design that was destroyed and scrapped after it developed oscilations at high speeds and killed a couple of test pilots in a row. It probably never saw action, and I wouldn't go believing Ubisoft when they produce a what-if hypothetical mission set (they mention this is a "what-if" in the readme).
None of these saw the war. The only one that came close was the P-80, but it didn't.
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I think a couple shooting stars got to Europe for testing in late 1944 or 1945. I think maybe 12 total existed at that point.
They did not see combat until Korea.
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Didn't they send 4, and 2 of them crashed on tests? So they grounded the other two or sent them home?
Or am I thinking of another plane?
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I think 2 of them crash on delivery or acceptance trials.... fuel flow, fuel pump.... I'd have to do some digging.
You thinking about the right plane though, I'm pretty sure.
One of the one's killed was an Ace.... one of those pulled from front for war bonds and such too, IIRC.