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Offline TonyJoey

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2008, 07:32:42 PM »
All for it would be a fun addition. :aok :salute
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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2008, 11:15:43 PM »
I saw a video of this thing flying, it could turn like having a knife slice through water, i'd agree, all for Ki-43?  :salute Im IN.
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Offline QRS

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2008, 07:07:51 AM »
Thanks much gentlemen for your support for this great plane as well as your kind comments.

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2008, 05:30:10 PM »
The below is an interesting quote from a piece comparing the P-40E to the P-40N that discusses the Ki-43 (Oscar)  by:  Lt. Sammy A. Pierce, 49th Fighter Group/5th Air Force.

“…The Oscar was probably the slowest Japanese fighter in the theater and had very little armament, but it was a performing fool. An experienced pilot in an Oscar was not as much a threat to an experienced P-40 pilot because of the Oscar's lack of guns and the P-40's ability to take it, but he could send you home talking to yourself.”

Web Site:  www.P-40.com
(Note:  For some reason that URL didn't work.  I found it at: http://staff.jccc.net/droberts/p40/p40a.html 

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Offline GrimCH

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2008, 07:36:14 PM »
The KI-43 was fun in Air Warrior, was labeled a dweeb ride,tho.

It would be nice to have it, especially for FSO or Scenarios. I'm sure it would be a popular ride in the MA :)
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Offline BaDkaRmA158Th

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2008, 08:05:01 PM »
It has my vote.
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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #21 on: June 08, 2008, 09:35:51 AM »
Hai!  :aok
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Offline 442w30

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #22 on: June 08, 2008, 10:50:22 AM »
Another Hai vote for Oscar- perhaps both version so that EW would have one and MW the later version.  Both could come in handy for FSO and other scenarios as well. 
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Offline Becinhu

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2008, 06:42:09 PM »
How about a Ki-27 "Nate" or a A5M4 "Claude". Both only fielded 2 7.7mm guns in the cowling, but the A5M4 was numerically superior to the zero at Pearl Harbor. But alas...while extremely nimble your gonna hafta work for kills.
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Offline Bino

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Re: Ki-43
« Reply #24 on: June 08, 2008, 09:46:28 PM »
Quote from: Becinhu on June 08, 2008, 06:42:09 PM
How about a Ki-27 "Nate" or a A5M4 "Claude". Both only fielded 2 7.7mm guns in the cowling, but the A5M4 was numerically superior to the zero at Pearl Harbor. But alas...while extremely nimble your gonna hafta work for kills.

Where do you get your info, please?  According to what I've read, there were only a few A5Ms still in front-line service by December 1941, on board CVLs Hosho, Ryujo, and Zuiho.  And none on the six big CVs that attacked Pearl.

That said, I, too, would enjoy flying a nimble little "Claude" in AH.  :aok
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