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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: funked on April 14, 2001, 01:37:00 PM
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Virtual Northolt Wing is happy to have yet another plane of a former pilot of the real Northolt Wing. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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(http://www.raf303.org/308/308banner.gif) (http://www.raf303.org/308)
FunkedUp, Officer Commanding, 308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF (http://www.raf303.org/308)
Northolt Wing (1st Polish Fighter Wing) (http://www.raf303.org/northolt)
"We had been forced to fight. And now that we are fighting, we thought, we'll teach you rotten Huns how to fight. We'll shoot your pissy little fighters out of the sky, we'll rip your dirty great bombers to shreds, we'll make you wish to Christ you'd never heard of the aeroplane!"
[This message has been edited by funked (edited 04-14-2001).]
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quit trying to steal our cookies, funked (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
go away you silly toy airplane pilots..
<G,D,R>
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Hehehe... I am going to LOVE this bird. I already do. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Thanks in advance HTC!
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Sean "Lephturn" Conrad - Aces High Chief Trainer
A proud member of the mighty Flying Pigs
http://www.flyingpigs.com
Check out Lephturn's Aerodrome (http://users.andara.com/~sconrad/) for AH articles and training info!
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Everyone knows Gabby never got any kills until he started flying the jug--a real man's airplane. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
BTW, thanks HTC!
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Sancho
63rd FS, 56th FG
"Zemke's Wolfpack"
(http://www.jump.net/~cs3/sigs/mahurin_sig.jpg)
Hell hath no fury like 8 50 cals and 18 fire breathing cylinders.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that's the saddest day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now for sure I will never have Gabby's late war camo with bubble top and inv stripes.
Pyro hates me, I have no friends (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
<pops his pepsi and tries to get drunk>
(http://home.cfl.rr.com/rauns/gabby.gif)
[This message has been edited by SFRT - Frenchy (edited 04-14-2001).]
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Oups, I forgot to say that the new P-47D-11 is remarkably well realized, WTG HTC!
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Jugs are for girls.
<g,d,r>
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By Gabby's own admission, he didn't have the skills required to be a killer in the Spitfire. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Can some one do a brief run down on the differences between these planes?
AW only had one Jug, and I never flew it (it was a dog in arena play in AW).
Which one would you fly, when and why??
thanks.
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Advantages? The D-11 will be lighter. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I know the D-5 was about 1100 lbs lighter than the D-25 and the D-11 wasn't too different from the D-5. And the razorback jugs were more stable in turns than the bubbletops (before the dorsal fillet was added).
Drawbacks? *Slightly* less HP and a non-existent 6 o'clock view. Also it had the earlier and less efficient non-paddleblade propeller.
Hopefully this D-11 will have a hot-rodded engine that can pull 72" MP and retrofitted with a paddleblade prop. (http://www1.jump.net/~cs3/smilies/devil.gif)
One other thing, I don't have my books available right now and I don't remember if the D-11 had underwing pylons for bombs/tanks mounted from the factory. The screenshots shown lack underwing pylons. Anyone?
After we get this plane, I will probably use the D-30 for air-to-ground work and the D-11 for sweeps and escort missions. I might take the D-25 up to add some latin spice every now and then. The 56th FG will be spending a lot of time in this plane, which wears our historical namesake's markings. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Sancho
56th Fighter Group "Zemke's Wolfpack" (http://www.jump.net/~cs3)
[This message has been edited by Sancho (edited 04-15-2001).]
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Underwing pylons were factory-fitted starting with the D-15 I think.
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Personally I hope we don't have the under wing pylons. I want that baby clean and polished, with modified waste gates. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Using a Jug for A2G is sacrilidge! What a waste of a superior machine.
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Sean "Lephturn" Conrad - Aces High Chief Trainer
A proud member of the mighty Flying Pigs
http://www.flyingpigs.com
Check out Lephturn's Aerodrome (http://users.andara.com/~sconrad/) for AH articles and training info!
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D-11 came only with a centerline hardpoint from the factory. I think some were retrofitted with wing pylons.
FYI D-11 had ADI but not the "paddle" prop.
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burn the jug (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Hazed
3./JG2 (http://members.home.net/winyah999/3jg2.htm)
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Yes..give us 72" MAP! (Or at least give the D-30 it's 64" MAP it should have)
Daff
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CO, 56th Fighter Group
www.56thfightergroup.org (http://www.56thfightergroup.org)
This is Yardstick, follow me"
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Isn't the cockpit of the Razorback wrong? In all my pics i have i can't see through the last window. Except this its a nice model.
Lem
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Yes the cockpit area behind the pilot armor should be enclosed. I've seen a jug or two with that area open, where a rear seat was installed (for example in the restored "Little Demon" at Galveston museum--viewed in Squadron Signal's P-47 walkaround book), but this was on a modern restoration and definitely not typical of wartime jugs.