Mosquito Mk. XVIII

[Tank-Ace]

Negative ghost rider, the pattern is full.

[F77]

Going back to an earlier post... I tooka  MKXVI Mossie dogfighting in the DA.  At distance both mossie's ID as a "MOSS" and it's only close up that it distinguishes between the two.

It was good fun seeing all the aircraft scatter!  Light she makes a great dogfighter and ties people up, pity that there's not even a peashooter!

[Bruv119]

+1 to the TSE TSE. 

I can't look cool killing gvs with that 410 cannon with the mossie I can.   

[Megalodon]

A complete pig that could barely fly.

You know, you don't need to toejam on every wishlist post for a non-German unit with your incessant demands for only German units to be added.

...and you know that how... its your wealth of knowledge or you read in a book <unlikly>... maybe you used to fly them?

Then quit toe jamming every thread like you do. We dont need another mossi for a long while.

We need the Dewoitine D520 



incessant French demand,

 

[Karnak]

...and you know that how... its your wealth of knowledge or you read in a book <unlikly>... maybe you used to fly them?

Yes, read it in a book.  Sorry, but the Hs129 was not well liked and it was not a very good airplane.  Putting the 75mm cannon on it made it an outright dangerous airplane to its own pilot.  There were also more Mosquito Mk XVIII built than Hs129 with the 75mm cannon and those Mosquitoes were far, far, far more successful.  Asking Tank-Ace not to spam threads about non-German stuff with posts about German stuff is not unreasonable.

Then quit toe jamming every thread like you do. We dont need another mossi for a long while.

I did not start this thread, nor have I said the Mossie XVIII should be added anywhere in it.  I acknowledge that I would like to see it, but, as I've said before, I can't justify supporting its addition given its low production numbers.  At least not until an awful lot of other aircraft are added before it.

And is it really shocking for me to comment in a Mossie thread?  There are one or two guys on this board who are more knowledgeable about the Mossie than I am, but that still leaves me near the top for supplying data on them and it was simply data which I was supplying in this thread until Tank-Ace tried to hijack it with his "Only German stuff should be added." fetish.

We need the Dewoitine D520 



incessant French demand,

I have advocated for the D.520, but in the appropriate threads for it.

[Megalodon]

Yes, read it in a book.  Sorry, but the Hs129 was not well liked and it was not a very good airplane.
There were also more Mosquito Mk XVIII built than Hs129 with the 75mm cannon
There are one or two guys on this board who are more knowledgeable about the Mossie than I am, but that still leaves me near the top for supplying data on them and it was simply data which I was supplying in this thread until

What Book?






17 Mosquito FB Mk.XVIII  <  25 Hs-129B-3  Panzerjager Hs-129  by Martin Peeg
Shipbuster: Mosquito Mk XVIII “Tse-tse” an operational history’ by Alex Crawford


Supply some data on this plane

[Megalodon]

27 Mossie XVIIIs were built, some were converted from FB.MK VIs, which is where the confusion on numbers comes from.

There were 17 total   source? I will include the test versions so 31 Hs-129 with the 75

[Karnak]

There were 17 total   source?

Mosquito by Sharp and Bowman.

[Megalodon]

I stick withthe guy who researched it specifically thanks

[tuton25]

The German 50mm is full auto.  All that means is it fires at is maximum cyclic rate if the trigger is held down.  The 57mm Molins gun had a rate of fire of slightly better than one round per second if I recall correctly.

The B-25's 75mm, on the other hand, was manually loaded and could not be operated in any kind of maneuvering situation.

I was insinuating that it had a higher rat of fire.....

[Tank-Ace]

Holy necro bump!!!!

[tuton25]

Holy necro bump!!!!

So????