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Offline Hangtime

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« on: February 29, 2000, 09:39:00 PM »
Ummmm....

Nice! 'cept the rudder seems a mite weak.

Hang
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Offline gatt

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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2000, 01:29:00 AM »
Man the kite is beautiful! WTG HTC!

Hehe, after a  steep dive and at 500mph IAS she rolls like and maybe better than a Focke-Wulf. Absolutely no cmpression (like PYRO said, tho).

Great fun to fly till HTC will fix her FM (I hope). I dont want another WB2.0 monster here. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2000, 04:18:00 AM »
it has also VERY impressive Zoom capabilities .. zoomed from F1 (10feet agl, 5000Ft MSL) at 400 iAS WEP on with a 2.5G pull up into the vertical ..kept going till speed was around 65-70 IAS , chopped throttle and performed hammerhead turn (don't even used differential throttles) with  full right rudder and a tad of aileron into the turn... wet around smooth no signs of stall
now figure the alt.. top of the zoom climb was 11000 Feet MSL!

I really do hope we get compressability soon or this thing will be a mjor headache in the arena...

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Offline gatt

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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2000, 05:31:00 AM »

Yes Duckwing,

I think it is all in her primitive FM. The climb rate isnt impressive at all. So, IMHO this P38L flies [in the vertical plane] with very poor or no "skin friction".

PYRO said something about "no compression" so far for the Lightning. BTW the graphic is beautiful and, even if tweaked, she will be a formidable foe in the future.

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Offline Gator

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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2000, 06:17:00 AM »
... she will be a formidable foe ...

As she should be!  

But, don't despair, I'll be flying her, too, so at least one of the P-38 icons will not be too dangerous and will offer an easy kill ...
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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2000, 08:15:00 AM »
She was a formiable foe, but as mentioned, without her flight model complete, she's a threat to every A/C in the main arena.
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2000, 09:07:00 AM »
 
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Originally posted by Hangtime:
Ummmm....

Nice! 'cept the rudder seems a mite weak.

Hang

  Must have been Hang's cat that wrote this.  It's always had a penchant for understatement. :P


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Offline Rude

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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2000, 09:16:00 AM »
Again...Just One Big Fat Target

Thx HTC....My vision isn't what it used to be

Rude Out!
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