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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Hening on March 19, 2001, 07:24:00 AM

Title: Night Fighters
Post by: Hening on March 19, 2001, 07:24:00 AM

Salute to Aces High for the inclusion of moonlite periods in the arena.  The nightime action of WWII was furious and exciting but often overlooked.  It would benefit the sumulation to include night fighters with radar to get the true feel.  BF110s (w/possible Jazz Music gun emplacement), Mossies (already requested) and a radar option for some of the existing aircraft to be selected in the hanger?

F/L Hening
416RCAF www.416rcaf.org (http://www.416rcaf.org)

Title: Night Fighters
Post by: Staga on March 19, 2001, 07:35:00 AM

Jazz music? You meant schrage musik?

Title: Night Fighters
Post by: Sturm on March 19, 2001, 08:10:00 AM

Some do not know or maybe how it is spelled.  Literal translation means slanted music I believe.  I have also heard of it being called Jazz music.          

Title: Night Fighters
Post by: gatt on March 19, 2001, 08:20:00 AM

Something tells me that we will see late war Mossies and Me-410 in the arena, but not Bf110 (even the late /R variants).

Title: Night Fighters
Post by: Hening on March 19, 2001, 11:51:00 AM

"Jazz Music" was the term or translation used to identify the gun emplacement in the rear of the BF110 that was fixed upward and used to set off the fuel tanks of the lancasters after getting underneath the fuselage during night flights.

The translation was used in a few texts and design drawings that were translated by the U.S. Defense Department.

Hening
416RCAF