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Title: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: justIN on October 20, 2014, 10:36:48 PM
Not sure how many planes needed to be used to be considered for the game. The TA-152 had like 43                            Specifications (G.55/I)[edit]
Data from "Centauro - The Final Fling"[24]
General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 9.37 m (30 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 11.85 m (38 ft 10 in)
Height: 3.13 m (without the antenna mast) (10 ft 3¼ in)
Wing area: 21.11 m² (227.23 ft²)
Empty weight: 2,630 kg (5,798 lb)
Loaded weight: 3,520 kg (7,760 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 3,718 kg (8,197 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Fiat RA.1050 R.C.58 Tifone (license-built Daimler-Benz DB 605A-1) liquid-cooled inverted V-12, 1,085 kW (1,475 hp)
Performance

Maximum speed: 623 km/h (337 kn, 387 mph (417 mph with WEP)) at 7,000 m (22,970 ft)
Range: 1,200 km, or 1,650 km with two 100 l (26 US Gal) drop tanks under wings (545 nmi, 627 mi (or 891 nmi, 1,025 mi with drop tanks ))
Service ceiling: 12,750 m (41,830 ft)
Rate of climb: 5 min 50 sec at 6,000 m (Dimensione Cielo, Caccia Assalto 3 Edizioni Bizzarri, Roma 1972, pag. 15) ()
Wing loading: 154.0 kg/m² (34.15 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.308 kW/kg (0.190 hp/lb)
Climb to 7,000 m (22,970 ft): 8.57 min
Armament

G.55 Serie 0:

1 × 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 cannon, engine-mounted (250 rounds)
4 × 12.7 mm (.5 in) Breda-SAFAT machine guns, two in the upper engine cowling, two in the lower cowling/wing roots (300 rpg)
G.55 Serie I:

3 × 20 mm MG 151/20s, one engine-mounted (250 rounds) and two wing-mounted (200 rpg)
2 × 12.7 mm Breda-SAFAT machine guns in the upper engine cowling (300 rpg)
Provision for 2 × 160 kg (353 lb) bombs on underwing racks (N.B. Egyptian and Syrian aircraft used Machine guns in the wings instead of cannon)
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Arlo on October 20, 2014, 11:27:59 PM
Again .... images sell:

(http://www.drugisvetski.com/graphic/fiat_g_55_presek.jpg)

(http://www.aviationsmilitaires.net/media/views/fiat_g55_3v.jpg)

(http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/458/pics/123_13_b1.jpg)

(http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/855/thepurestform.jpg)

(http://pro-samolet.ru/images/stories/ww2/italy/fiat-g55-centauro/fighter_fiat-g55_centauro-16big.jpg)
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: justIN on October 20, 2014, 11:29:53 PM
Thanks for the pictures, Yes it does make it more appealing.
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: bozon on October 21, 2014, 07:48:42 AM
All these 1943 Italian fighters look the same to me. That is not necessarily bad - they all look good!

+1
I'd rather have these than some last day of WWII what-if fighter. This and the Re2005 will not even be hangar queens.

Do they come in leopard skin like the c205?
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: ONTOS on October 21, 2014, 09:48:59 AM
I've been for the Fiat 55 all along. Great bird. +5 :aok
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Rich46yo on October 21, 2014, 10:13:01 AM
+1
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Coalcat1 on October 21, 2014, 02:01:27 PM
It's got the same armerment I carry on my 109s, looks pretty, and looks like it would see some use, something I sure as hell would fly, big +100 for AH3
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: -ammo- on October 21, 2014, 02:45:22 PM
+1
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Nefarious on October 21, 2014, 08:07:38 PM
Another fine addition! +1
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Mitchell on October 21, 2014, 09:46:37 PM
+ 1  :aok
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Karnak on October 22, 2014, 12:20:19 AM
Would be a fine addition.

The cockpit framing does look like a relic from 1940 though. Rear visibility would be poor.
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: MrKrabs on October 22, 2014, 12:28:46 AM
Just don't know how this isn't part of our line-up yet...

I simply love the Italian birds especially the C.200 which outta get some consideration as well... I guess it's too ugly for people's taste... "then again they'll fly the I-16"

GIMMEH MAI C.200!

Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Scherf on October 22, 2014, 05:52:58 AM
Didn't realise it was so speedy.
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: bustr on October 22, 2014, 02:54:00 PM
So we have seen HTC deliver us the first production version of major aircraft or the largest production run of an extensive family. The first run of the G.55 was the Serie 0 which saw combat. With units flying mixed serie 0 and 1 as planes were produced.

G.55 Serie 0:

1 × 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 cannon, engine-mounted (250 rounds)
4 × 12.7 mm (.5 in) Breda-SAFAT machine guns, two in the upper engine cowling, two in the lower cowling/wing roots (300 rpg)

The Breda got moved to the wings due to maintenance and servicing complications.

As you read though, the impression is, some number of serie 1 up to about 200 were ultimately produced. And you know how boom stick silly AH players are when it comes to their appetites towards squirting everyone else.

Which G.55 are you gents wishing for?

1 × 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 cannon, engine-mounted (250 rounds)

Or.........

3 × 20 mm MG 151/20s, one engine-mounted (250 rounds) and two wing-mounted (200 rpg)

Or is there not enough weight difference for the performance code to care about, such that we can choose Serie0 or Serie1 armament packages in the hanger?
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: Arlo on October 22, 2014, 03:07:31 PM
What about curtain 3? Is Jay gonna bring something down the aisle?
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: justIN on October 22, 2014, 09:58:21 PM
   As the title says the Fiat G.55/1

So we have seen HTC deliver us the first production version of major aircraft or the largest production run of an extensive family. The first run of the G.55 was the Serie 0 which saw combat. With units flying mixed serie 0 and 1 as planes were produced.

G.55 Serie 0:

1 × 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 cannon, engine-mounted (250 rounds)
4 × 12.7 mm (.5 in) Breda-SAFAT machine guns, two in the upper engine cowling, two in the lower cowling/wing roots (300 rpg)

The Breda got moved to the wings due to maintenance and servicing complications.

As you read though, the impression is, some number of serie 1 up to about 200 were ultimately produced. And you know how boom stick silly AH players are when it comes to their appetites towards squirting everyone else.

Which G.55 are you gents wishing for?

1 × 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 cannon, engine-mounted (250 rounds)

Or.........

3 × 20 mm MG 151/20s, one engine-mounted (250 rounds) and two wing-mounted (200 rpg)

Or is there not enough weight difference for the performance code to care about, such that we can choose Serie0 or Serie1 armament packages in the hanger?

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Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: bustr on October 23, 2014, 11:18:15 AM
Be carful, we may well end up with a Ki-44 with the four Ho-103. So we could end up spending a few years begging for the Serie1. Look at our Ki-43, we still get occasional wishes for two Ho-105. I'm about five years into asking for all engine HUB mounted cannon to be set at "0" azimuth, since the real ones could not be angled up through the engine like our convergence application allows us to.

HiTech seems to have a permanently implanted anti crystal ball disrupter device in his skull. I have better odds to win the California lottery than to see into HiTechs choices. Kind of makes the dramas off the ball field more interesting. :aok
Title: Re: Fiat G.55/1...........production 349
Post by: EagleDNY on October 23, 2014, 08:39:26 PM
+1 I'd fly it.