Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Saxman on August 31, 2009, 12:49:25 AM
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Let's see the F4Fs get a face-lift. And while we're at it, how about getting a true F4F-3? There were more differences than just the number of guns. The -3 was 1000lbs lighter at combat loads, had longer range, was faster and climbed better.
The F4F-3 was used extensively during the first year of the war. She was the model used at Coral Sea, and most of the Marine squadrons at Guadalcanal were equipped with the -3 (the addition of folding wings in the -4 led them to supplant the -3 on the carriers, although most of the Navy pilots preferred the -3s).
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Im up for the update, but if we get the -3, what good r the zeros? :D
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isn't the FM-2 a F4F-3 produced somewhere else ?
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isn't the FM-2 a F4F-3 produced somewhere else ?
No.
The FM-2 is essentially an F4F-8. Different engine, even LIGHTER than the -3 and -4, larger vertical stabilizer.