Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: bustr on July 08, 2010, 09:57:45 PM
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The AH web page nor the trainers site seem to have a repository of traditional regulation WW2 gunsights with breif explanations and how they were used that can be downloaded. Since it looks like with Baumers excellent presentation HiTech and company are about to revamp the gunsight coad. I've seen players over the years ask if anyone has a copy of an older AH gunsight. With the revamp it would be an opportunity to put in a gunsight downloads location.
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I think this would be a good thing to create in the AHwiki.
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I'd love to see this, with both a historical and non historical section.
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Baumer,
I was hoping you would have a hand in this. Your presentation using pages from the original U.S. manual was inspired. I read a translated german manual from the period earlier this year. It uses a slightly racey illustration of a cabare singer along with comic book style illustrations but, it makes it's point. It also has an excellent explanation of how to use the Revi cross and ring reticle to gauge range and lead. The name of the german manual is "Schiessfibel" or "Horrido!". I used to have an active link to it translated in english. The only links now are to the original, but the illustrations are classic.
http://rafiger.de/Homepage/Literatur/Schiessfibel.pdf
http://www.archive.org/details/Horrido-DesJaegersSchiessfibel
Everyone has custom gunsights in this game. Lord knows over the years I have created about 100 trying to find the perfict match for my eyes. No one has ever posted a page with all the real gunsight graticles and the theory behind their specific structure versus howto use them. Offline when I created gunsight graticles I've kept the rule of 200 and 400 for my primary ring and secondary ring based on following the drones around the circle for many wasted years of my life. With your excellent presentation to HiTech I'm anxiously awaiting the changes so I can go back to using the WW2 traditional sights. You gave me one of those "light bulb" moments with the Mk8 graticles. I suspect an AHWiki page dedicated to this on as many of the regulation WW2 graticles as possible, with downloads and original gunnery manual theory discussions can turn on a virtual Airforce of "Light Bulbs".
Baumer, again thank you for your excellent thread on Gunsights.
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Agree. Great idea. Excellent threads too. I'm looking forward to this developing. Would really like the Mk 8 historical in the F4U and F6F I fly.
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I know AKDogg has an excellent colection of sights,he might be persuaded to contribute to the Wiki.
Not really my place to say but he has a link to the sights in these forums so I see no harm in mentioning it.
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I know AKDogg has an excellent colection of sights,he might be persuaded to contribute to the Wiki.
Not really my place to say but he has a link to the sights in these forums so I see no harm in mentioning it.
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They are free to use or to be placed anywhere. Only credit I ask is where they came from.
http://www.arabian-knights.org/files/HistoricalSights.zip
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Thx Dogg,I would think simply putting your link into the wiki would cover both bases. :aok
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