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Offline PR3D4TOR

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2011, 05:55:12 PM »
If the N is a late-war model, I wonder why they never put more power in it like the Brits did with the Spit and the Jerries with their 109?
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Offline Widewing

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2011, 06:21:14 PM »
Quote from: PR3D4TOR on October 07, 2011, 05:55:12 PM
If the N is a late-war model, I wonder why they never put more power in it like the Brits did with the Spit and the Jerries with their 109?

The first P-40Ns were delivered in March of 1943, making it a mid-war fighter..... Improvement over earlier models was very modest, at best.
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Offline clerick

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2011, 06:42:24 PM »
Didn't it have a slightly longer fuselage?  If so does anyone know if that's been molded in the game?
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Re: P-40N
« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2011, 06:59:48 PM »
Quote from: clerick on October 07, 2011, 06:42:24 PM
Didn't it have a slightly longer fuselage?  If so does anyone know if that's been molded in the game?

yes and part of rear cockpit is slanted down for more visibility
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Offline EagleDNY

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2011, 07:32:07 PM »
I'll give her a try +1
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Re: P-40N
« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2011, 07:33:11 PM »
Couple questions in looking into this...  approximately 1200 were built with merlins, 4000 w/ allison engines.  There were also variants that carried 6 guns, but had a slower top speed, ceiling, and climb rate.

Which Engine variant will we have?  Will MG loadouts be optional (4 or 6)?
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Offline ScottyK

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2011, 09:46:03 PM »
i dont care who u are but the P-40 is sexy looking :rock
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Offline BaDkaRmA158Th

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2011, 11:30:41 PM »
Which Engine variant will we have?  Will MG loadouts be optional (4 or 6)?
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Offline Guppy35

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #23 on: October 08, 2011, 12:56:18 AM »
Allison engine.  Intake on top of the engine is the giveaway.  Merlin 40s had no upper intake.
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Offline Noir

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #24 on: October 08, 2011, 02:52:24 AM »
mmmmh 378mph at 10k? How will be climb rate?
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Re: P-40N
« Reply #25 on: October 08, 2011, 03:52:06 AM »
Quote from: PR3D4TOR on October 07, 2011, 05:55:12 PM
If the N is a late-war model, I wonder why they never put more power in it like the Brits did with the Spit and the Jerries with their 109?

They did ...Allison V-1710-81/99/115 1200hp to 1360hp or so....depends on the batch. The largest batch was P40N-20CU V-1710-99 at 1523 this batch also upped the P40N to 3-500lbs. -25 provided self sealing tanks. 220 P40N-40CU had the V-1710/115

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2011, 04:25:34 AM »
P40s just keep getting more interesting - now I realize they carried 3 bombs?

Oh... hello perk farming! :D
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Offline SmokinLoon

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #27 on: October 08, 2011, 11:03:15 AM »
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!  I   :salute  HTC for adding in the P40N, it does a great job at rounding out the P40 series!  HTC has done well with the Spitfires, 109's, P47's, F4U's, Zeke's, P38's, and not the P40's!!!  Job well done!  Any bets if they allow for both the 4 or 6 gun package (my money is on they offer both)? Also, didnt the N model allow for more ordnance (multiple bombs) to be carried?

I wonder if HTC will change the P40B to the P40C as they hinted they were going to do.  IIRC, the only difference between the 2 was the addition of the undercarriage shackle for the drop tank and ordnance? 

Nice job, HTC.   :aok

Now... about the He111, Pe-2, Tu-2, Beaufighter, Ki43 Oscar, and a few other glaring holes in the AH line up ....     ;)   
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #28 on: October 08, 2011, 11:30:19 AM »
anyone else here go through their childhood spending their allowance and whatever money they could earn buying p-40 models and watching the flying leathernecks every time it came on tv? at $4 to $7 per model plus all the glue, paint, sandpaper, paint brushes, fishing line...i'm pretty sure i had over $200 (1970s value) in just p-40s alone.

can't wait to fly these toon p-40s in the toon skies...  :x
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Offline Zoney

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Re: P-40N
« Reply #29 on: October 08, 2011, 12:31:41 PM »
Growing up, my dad's friend, Chuck Doyle, out of Minnesota had a P51d and a P40 with the sharks mouth paint job.  I know my dad lusted after the P51 because, well because it's a P51, but it didn't hold a candle to that beautiful P40 that I coveted.  I was allowed to help clean and wax these works of mechanical art, and I knew it was a priveledge.
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