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Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Kronos on March 27, 2002, 06:53:27 AM

The tail is part of a P47 from the 9th AF, and connects to a light in the cockpit.  Who knows what its for?  You might just be surprised.

Title: the light
Post by: Kronos on March 27, 2002, 06:57:03 AM

another pic

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: illo on March 27, 2002, 06:57:48 AM

Auto 6 call! :D

Title: Re: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Widewing on March 27, 2002, 07:15:06 AM

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Originally posted by Kronos
The tail is part of a P47 from the 9th AF, and connects to a light in the cockpit.  Who knows what its for?  You might just be surprised.

Tail warning radar was incorporated into many of the late war U.S. fighter aircraft. It was standard on the P-38L and a field mod for the P-47 and P-51. It simply lit a light to notify the pilots that an aircraft was close behind it. This looks like the dipole antenna commonly used at the time.

My regards,

Widewing

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Kronos on March 27, 2002, 07:46:50 AM

Exactly.  The reason I brought it up is cause there has been alot of talk recently about "auto ck6 calls" and people wanting to get rid of the check 6 feature we have now.  People might not know that some WW2 late war aircraft actually had these "check 6" radar antennae.  Personally, I think if it was on the plane, and you can prove it, HTC might be willing to look into adding it as a feature.

My book only shows that it was there, not ranges and such though.  Would be interesting to know how far back and to what angles it would detect aircraft.  I'm pretty sure it was a reasonably short distance.

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Mickey1992 on March 27, 2002, 08:05:25 AM

80% of the time, the aircraft on my 6 is a countryman.  I think that after a while I would just ignore it.

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Yeager on March 27, 2002, 08:24:10 AM

Way cool!

HT, incorporat this on planes so equipped and BAG THE ESP 6call

SHIVER ME TIMBERS!!!! ARGHHHHHH

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: SunKing on March 27, 2002, 11:10:10 AM

oh come on.. next you guys will be crying for bots to fly your planes.

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: MadBirdCZ on March 27, 2002, 11:41:16 AM

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Originally posted by SunKing
oh come on.. next you guys will be crying for bots to fly your planes.

Actually in offline mode the drones could do something else than just circle... I dont mean to propose incorporating an AI module.. No not this.. My thought is more like lets say If you get close to the drone it might do a barel roll or some other basic ACM so new players might be able to try to stay behind the drone or fly the plane to get an angle on it... ?

Just my $0.02  ;)

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Kronos on March 27, 2002, 11:47:18 AM

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oh come on.. next you guys will be crying for bots to fly your planes.

Can we????

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Exile on March 27, 2002, 11:52:23 AM

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Originally posted by SunKing
oh come on.. next you guys will be crying for bots to fly your planes.

I tried once, but Drex's rates were a bit steep. ;)

Title: Try and guess what this is for
Post by: Tac on March 27, 2002, 12:01:24 PM

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