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Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: Hangtime on February 29, 2000, 09:39:00 PM

Ummmm....

Nice! 'cept the rudder seems a mite weak.

Hang

Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: gatt on March 01, 2000, 01:29:00 AM

Man the kite is beautiful! WTG HTC!

Hehe, after a  steep dive and at 500mph IAS she rolls like and maybe better than a Focke-Wulf. Absolutely no cmpression (like PYRO said, tho).

Great fun to fly till HTC will fix her FM (I hope). I dont want another WB2.0 monster here. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Gatt
4th Stormo CT



[This message has been edited by gatt (edited 03-01-2000).]

Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: Duckwing6 on March 01, 2000, 04:18:00 AM

it has also VERY impressive Zoom capabilities .. zoomed from F1 (10feet agl, 5000Ft MSL) at 400 iAS WEP on with a 2.5G pull up into the vertical ..kept going till speed was around 65-70 IAS , chopped throttle and performed hammerhead turn (don't even used differential throttles) with  full right rudder and a tad of aileron into the turn... wet around smooth no signs of stall
now figure the alt.. top of the zoom climb was 11000 Feet MSL!

I really do hope we get compressability soon or this thing will be a mjor headache in the arena...

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Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: gatt on March 01, 2000, 05:31:00 AM

Yes Duckwing,

I think it is all in her primitive FM. The climb rate isnt impressive at all. So, IMHO this P38L flies [in the vertical plane] with very poor or no "skin friction".

PYRO said something about "no compression" so far for the Lightning. BTW the graphic is beautiful and, even if tweaked, she will be a formidable foe in the future.

Gatt
4°Stormo CT

Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: Gator on March 01, 2000, 06:17:00 AM

... she will be a formidable foe ...

As she should be!   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

But, don't despair, I'll be flying her, too, so at least one of the P-38 icons will not be too dangerous and will offer an easy kill ...

Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: Ripsnort on March 01, 2000, 08:15:00 AM

She was a formiable foe, but as mentioned, without her flight model complete, she's a threat to every A/C in the main arena.

Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: Tern on March 01, 2000, 09:07:00 AM

 

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Originally posted by Hangtime:
Ummmm....

Nice! 'cept the rudder seems a mite weak.

Hang

 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Must have been Hang's cat that wrote this.  It's always had a penchant for understatement. :P


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Title: 1.01 P38
Post by: Rude on March 01, 2000, 09:16:00 AM

Again...Just One Big Fat Target (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Thx HTC....My vision isn't what it used to be (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Rude Out!