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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: spitfiremkv on April 04, 2002, 08:57:01 PM

Title: biplanes in AH
Post by: spitfiremkv on April 04, 2002, 08:57:01 PM

Wouldn't it be nice to fly some of the pre-war biplanes that got to see action in WW2, even if only in second-line units....

They'd be:

Polikarpov I-153
Fiat CR 32,42-used quite a lot
Gloster Gladiator
Avia B54(i think)
Grumman F3F
Heinkel He-51
Curtiss SBC Helldiver
Arado Ar-68
Fairey Swordfish-that was actually very successful in WW2
Henschel He-123 (i think)

Well,if you can think of some more, just reply and add them to the list.

Title: biplanes in AH
Post by: 8ball on April 05, 2002, 02:11:41 AM

Why would anyone actually fly a bi-plane?

Title: biplanes in AH
Post by: Hortlund on April 05, 2002, 03:32:04 AM

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Originally posted by 8ball
Why would anyone actually fly a bi-plane?

Why do people fly spits...or the N1K...or the La7?

Perversions? Dillusions? Inferiority complexes? Premature ejaculation problems? Who knows...

Some questions are just better left unanswered...

Title: biplanes in AH
Post by: Samm on April 05, 2002, 03:33:59 AM

Because they move faster that way .

I would like to see some of the more obscure early war plane in AH too . In due time .

Title: Re: biplanes in AH
Post by: MadBirdCZ on April 05, 2002, 03:57:00 AM

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Originally posted by spitfiremkv

Avia B54(i think)

Its Avia B.534 Golly-geen it! ;)  And yes I would like to see it too in AH but as it seems the IL-2 sturmovik from Maddox will have B.534 sooner... But anyway I already lost my faith in seeing B.534 in AH acording to a question I asked HiTech about biplane support by AH engine and about actually incorporating biplanes into AH in the future. Answer was - Yes AH engine does support biplanes and also that it is highly unlikely that they gonna be introduced to AH... :(

And why would people want to fly early war biplanes? I don't know about others but the reason why would I fly the B.534 is that it would probably be the one and ONLY Czech airplane that saw action during WW2 since the great allies sold our country to germans :mad: and we had to surrender without fight, B.534s saw quite some action during the liberation of our country at the end of the war...

Title: biplanes in AH
Post by: spitfiremkv on April 05, 2002, 11:37:46 AM

reason to fly biplanes: Cause they turn and turn and turn..on a dime and monoplanes can't turn with them :D
well,that won't help much against a better armed faster monoplane, but it'd still be a lot of fun. And it would be fun in scenarios like What if..WW2 1935 or Spanish Civil War.
But I agree with those that want HTC to concentrate on improving realism in the planes already present.
Some biplanes would still be nice ... :)