General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: hitech on May 10, 2019, 02:22:28 PM
Title: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: hitech on May 10, 2019, 02:22:28 PM
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EMail Topic:Hello Mr. Addink: Where do deleted BB threads go?
I am looking for a thread of around 2004-2005 titled "FW-190 Veteran experience"
or "FW-190 Pilot experience" or FW-190 Veteran pilot experience"
It went on for at least 4 pages, maybe as many as seven, and the OP was a relative (nephew?), relaying his family member's experience as a FW-190A Western Front Ace.
If you genuinely don't know where a thread on your site went, perhaps you could contact your moderator(s) of the time?
The thread was likely deleted because the FW-190A pilot in question was an ace that used turnfighting exclusively, downthrottled before the merge, and easily out-turned P-51s at low altitude and low speeds, shooting them down after being tailed... This was a quite astonishing viewpoint, and something which, in the thread itself, was already drawing some totally unjustified hostile comments (of the lamest patriotic kind in some cases)... Probably in part this was due to the P-51's iconic status having clearly veered into the irrational...
Most documented P-51 encounter reports (with the FW-190A) also show the complete opposite relationship at low alttudes.., [I suspect now because of something called "muscle memory" (from training at high altitudes), where the FW-190A was very delicate to handle...] This could have induced a moderator to think the family member's low atitude claims were faked, or misleading.
Whatever the reason for the thread's deletion, this thread is the critical source of my theory on prop load asymmetry, and I will continue to mention it as the originating spark of all the subsequent research I have done on this issue... This will soon be of some significance, as my theory is now not only understood to be sound, but discussed by several PhDs, And really, it is rather an embarrassement to think that the "Old Flight Physics" assumed that a prop loaded to 30 pounds per square feet over 100 square feet, would take much less than one pound to be tilted one degree continuously...
So I do hope you manage to locate the thread. (yes I did try Internet Archives, other types of archive searches, and scrolled through the entire period several times...)
Keep in mind how this was likely the only time an actual WWII FW-190 ace pilot ever provided exclusive FW-190 content to Aces High BB, this actually creating a multi page thread, offering stunning details (like the wood prop ground striking risk, or the choice of 3 types of aileron chords, quite visible in photos, but never mentioned by any sources)..
. Just be aware that deleted threads do not always go away... Hopefully you will find it, but rest assured that, in either case, in a few years, you will hear way, way more about all this.
On the good side: Simulation dogfights will, one day, actually resemble what the real things looked like... A perspective for which we should all rejoice.
Guess who composed this fine production of knowledge beyond the limits of mortal man.
Some people make my head hurt.
HiTech
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: CptTrips on May 10, 2019, 03:26:00 PM
I don't know, but who ever he is, the Board of Directors should fire Zack and put THIS guy in charge of Aces High.
THIS GUY knows comedy!
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: morfiend on May 10, 2019, 04:11:13 PM
A failed board game developer? I dont recall his name off hand but he had some inside stuff like how a 190 could out turn a spit if it throttled down or some such nonsense.
:salute
PS: Not sure how you deal with this stuff......Oh right there's always a single malt to straighten out your brain.....
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: Meatwad on May 10, 2019, 04:11:16 PM
More power simply pulls them into too wide a radius (which does not happen to pushers, for obvious leverage reasons)
I forgot how some people could make me laugh.
Also I never really associated Gaston with the character from Beauty and the beast before. A more appropriate handle I could not think of. HiTech
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 11, 2019, 04:51:02 PM
I wonder if Gaston is still banned from the Ubisoft forums.
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: Squire on May 16, 2019, 12:50:38 AM
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On the good side: Simulation dogfights will, one day, actually resemble what the real things looked like
...and years from now he will roll his Fw 190...and be out turned by a P-51. :rofl
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: MiloMorai on May 16, 2019, 05:40:39 AM
Is Gaston and a guy from Montreal (from the early 2000s) the same guy?
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: morfiend on May 16, 2019, 11:46:21 AM
No,now you're going to make me try to remember his name.... He did the film hunt and prey with a 47. Lepape was his name,or for the english speaking folks,The Pope.
:salute
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 17, 2019, 03:30:24 PM
Gaston also has never played this game, nor IL2, another game he criticized.
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: Squire on May 20, 2019, 03:03:00 AM
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/468867011198553211/
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: bozon on May 20, 2019, 05:27:41 AM
Guess who composed this fine production of knowledge beyond the limits of mortal man.
Some people make my head hurt.
HiTech
Gawd I hope it wasn’t me. :uhoh I did some heavy drinking the other day. Woke up and found myself married with 3 kids and a dog. Who knows what else I’ve been doing while under the influence... Sorry HT.
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: Krusty on May 20, 2019, 06:39:28 PM
Terrence Howard now doing flight physics.... ?
No, I know who it is... but still think Terrence in disguise is a more earth-based answer.
Title: Re: Guess who I recieved this from
Post by: bangsbox on June 05, 2019, 11:35:36 AM
Hitech,
You are one of my favorite people in the community along with Dantoo. Better shaming of absurdity, ignorance, and stupidity I rarely come across. I love when knowledge, logic, and wit win the day. :salute