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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Nisky on April 10, 2008, 04:03:58 PM
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The sea hurricane mkIIC was equipped with a 1280hp Rolls-Royce XX engine , top speed of 341 at 22,000 ft, and armed with 4 20mm cannons. From what i can find a lot of them were catapulted from a total of 35 merchant ships but a number were converted for carrier based operations. In august of 1942 near malta , Sea Hurricanes from 3 carriers shot down 39 axis planes, with the loss of just seven.
Just a wishlist post to maybe up are CV's plane list. What do guys think?
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The sea hurricane mkIIC was equipped with a 1280hp Rolls-Royce XX engine , top speed of 341 at 22,000 ft, and armed with 4 20mm cannons. From what i can find a lot of them were catapulted from a total of 35 merchant ships but a number were convertered for carrier based operations. In august of 1942 near malta , Sea Hurricanes from 3 carriers shot down 39 axis planes, with the loss of just seven.
Just a wishlist post to maybe up are CV's plane list. What do guys think?
I can just see it now, hurricane coming off of a CV and Hoing everything. :lol :lol
NO
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We have the seafire. I say, "Sure."
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From what i can find a lot of them were catapulted from a total of 35 merchant ships but a number were convertered for carrier based operations.
Then... why would we have them?
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Because 400 were used on fleet carriers with a total of 1200 converted for sea operations.
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If they were never converted for carrier use, then how were 400 used on carriers? :huh
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Because 400 were used on fleet carriers with a total of 1200 converted for sea operations.
Wikipedia:
Sea Hurricane IIC
Hurricane IIC version equipped with naval radio gear; 400 aircraft were converted and used on fleet carriers.
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Next British CV aircraft should be the Firefly.
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Next British CV aircraft should be the Firefly.
The Fairey Firefly
:eek: :eek:
4 20mm's and up to 2 1000lbs bombs. :O :O
(http://www.hms-vengeance.co.uk/images2/firefly1.jpg)
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Thats a big frakkin picture.
Whats the role of the back seaters in that plane?
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Makin sammiches for the pilot.
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Makin sammiches for the pilot.
What kind of fool lets his wife in the plane? :D
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sounds like the recipe for wifey-ack at CLOSE RANGE!!! :O :O
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Whats the role of the back seaters in that plane?
The Firefly was designed to a specification set when the Royal Navy still believed that the workload on a fighter pilot would be too heavy if he had to navigate and fly the fighter alone. It was the last Royal Navy fighter to follow that design philosophy as the subsequent Sea Fury shows.
Seafires were ad hoc because the RN needed something better than Skuas, anything.
The Firefly was the first British aircraft to fly ov er Tokyo in WWII.
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Thats a big frakkin picture.
Whats the role of the back seaters in that plane?
It's for the observer.
it dose 316MPH at 14,000ft.
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Sea Hurricane IA
The Sea Hurricane IA was a Hurricane Mk I modified by General Aircraft Limited. They were modified to be carried by CAM ships (catapult armed merchantman). These were cargo ships equipped with a catapult for launching an aircraft, but without facilities to recover them. Thus, if the aircraft were not in range of a land base, pilots were forced to bail out and be picked up by the ship. They were informally known as "Hurricats".
The majority of the aircraft modified had suffered wear-and-tear from serving with front line squadrons, so much so that at least one example used during trials broke up under the stress of a catapult launching. A total of 50 aircraft were converted from Hurricane Mk Is.
Sea Hurricane IB
Hurricane IIA Series 2 version equipped with catapult spools plus an arrester hook. From October 1941, they were used on Merchant aircraft carrier (MAC ships), which were large cargo vessels with a flight deck enabling aircraft to be launched and recovered. A total of 340 aircraft were converted.
Sea Hurricane IC
Hurricane IIB and IIC version equipped with catapult spools, an arrester hook and the four-cannon wing. From February 1942, 400 aircraft were converted.
Sea Hurricane IIC
Hurricane IIC version equipped with naval radio gear; 400 aircraft were converted and used on fleet carriers.
Sea Hurricane XIIA
Canadian-built Hurricane XIIA converted into Sea Hurricanes.
ack-ack
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Put the Carrier born Hurri in the game. I hate the A6Ms and I'm alright in the F4U. I want something that can turn better and that can be taken more seriously when we have carriers off the shore.
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yes to the sea hurri and yes to the fairey.
They are British so they MUST be included into Aces High. :t
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I honestly belive that if we add this we do need a swordfish. The swordfish is amazing and was an important in the mediteranian (correct my spelling if u wish). I will save my swordfish wanting for my own topic when i get back from dayton.
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I honestly belive that if we add this we do need a swordfish. The swordfish is amazing and was an important in the mediteranian (correct my spelling if u wish). I will save my swordfish wanting for my own topic when i get back from dayton.
isnt that thing slow as all getout?? :huh
i dont know i have only read about it once and it claimed it was a divebomber
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I honestly belive that if we add this we do need a swordfish. The swordfish is amazing and was an important in the mediteranian (correct my spelling if u wish). I will save my swordfish wanting for my own topic when i get back from dayton.
The FAIREY BARACUDA would be a better pic for AH2 IMHO.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Fairey_Barracuda_Mk_I.jpg)
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Eww. :)
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I just posted about the sea hurri a few days ago. Funny to see 2 threads about it. That Fairey Firefly is bad! I vant von! :aok
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I just posted about the sea hurri a few days ago. Funny to see 2 threads about it. That Fairey Firefly is bad! I vant von! :aok
This is an old thread that someone bumped.
ack-ack
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ach ya I see. :D
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What kind of fool lets his wife in the plane? :D
lol
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The Firefly was designed to a specification set when the Royal Navy still believed that the workload on a fighter pilot would be too heavy if he had to navigate and fly the fighter alone. It was the last Royal Navy fighter to follow that design philosophy as the subsequent Sea Fury shows.
Seafires were ad hoc because the RN needed something better than Skuas, anything.
The Firefly was the first British aircraft to fly ov er Tokyo in WWII.
Fairey Firefly in Action (http://youtube.com/watch?v=usvJNuoxiRQ&feature=related)
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The FAIREY BARACUDA would be a better pic for AH2 IMHO.
That is an ugly-arse plane.... big beefy wings too.
:aok for the Firefly
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The sea hurricane mkIIC was equipped with a 1280hp Rolls-Royce XX engine , top speed of 341 at 22,000 ft, and armed with 4 20mm cannons. From what i can find a lot of them were catapulted from a total of 35 merchant ships but a number were converted for carrier based operations. In august of 1942 near malta , Sea Hurricanes from 3 carriers shot down 39 axis planes, with the loss of just seven.
Just a wishlist post to maybe up are CV's plane list. What do guys think?
NO MORE HURRICANES!!!!!!!! Unless they modle then correctly.
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I'd love a Sea Hurricane at some point. Shouldn't be #1 on anybodies list though.