Hiromachi

Yeah, those issues werent there yesterday when I tested it :) But we're on it already, Rudel is fighting it.

Mitsubishi was producing all kinds of things. Same as Nakajima. This was huge corporation of its time. I mean it was and is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. As for being proud. They absolutely should be. They started very late into industrialization, when US, UK, France or Germany were already heavily industrialized. They also were late in the race for "producing" engineers which left Japan with very limited manpower in this department (striking example is Jiro Horikoshi and his team that after completion of A6M was jumping back and forth in process of developing of J2M, upgrades to A6M and its successor A7M). So in a matter of decade they moved from being entirely dependent in aviation industry to being almost completely independent (which did not exclude cooperation, although Japanese had their own jet engine designs, infra red and radar technology development, etc.). But despite sincere attempts Japan could not overcome delays being consequences of previous decades and was at technological disadvantage in comparison to US or Germany. Which on its own is an irony considering today its pinnacle of technology along with Silicon Valley in US or couple other places.

I'm not sure where the entire idea come from. German - Japanese cooperation wasn't particularly great and although Japanese industry was influenced or directly supported by various German (and other) engineers in early 1930s, by late 1930s it largely became "self sufficient". If you take a look at Japanese aircraft designs, in 1920s Japan manufactured mostly aircraft acquired on licence from France, UK or US. By the end of 1920s and in early 1930s transition period began, where industry attempted to satisfy needs of Army and Navy with own designs, but still using multiple foreign designed components. Some designs were thus originally Japanese, while others like Type 91 fighter or Kawasaki Ki-10 either had air frame based on foreign construction (former) or engine of foreign origin (latter Ki-10 used liquid cooled inline engine manufactured under licence from BMW). By late 1930s this has settled as industry became fully capable of delivering airframes, engines (radial only though, as with Ki-61 and Ki-60 Daimler-Benz liquid cooled inline engine - DB 601Aa, was needed due to industries lack of experience in this field), weapons and ammunition. Radios and more advanced equipment might have been in some way dependent on foreign constructions (one of the B5Ns shot down over Pearl Harbor carried on board Fairchild made long range radio transmitter), but were also increasingly of native construction. Thus to assume that A6M was in any way influenced by FW-190 one would have to prove a lot of impossible things. For one, the construction and design process of FW-190 A began later than for Mitsubishi which received from IJN 12-Shi Carrier-borne Fighter requirements in 1937. So as pointed its 190A that might've been influenced by a Zero, which realistically is not a thing though. The other thing is that Japan - Germany cooperation did not work really well. Japan acquired a number of aircraft designs from Germany - He-112, Ju-87, Bf-109 E and later even FW-190 A-5 but only for testing, although some technical documentation for the 109 E was actually translated into Japanese. Production under licence was much worse. Mentioned DB-601Aa was manufactured in Japan under designation Type 2 or Ha-40 by Kawasaki or Atsuta (11 or 21, cant remember now) by Aichi. Yet neither company, due to Reich not permitting such sale, did not obtain crucial to that engine Bosch Fuel Injection System and Mitsubishi had to design one on its own. Given system operated at higher pressure than original Bosch system and caused variety of trouble, including fuel lines rupturing at extremes. On the other hand engine displayed some performance deviations from the original design (in favor of it, as engine had 20 - 30 HP more in some cases than Db 601Aa).

I will check it tomorrow.

Ok, now I see what you mean. Rudel already told you in Russian part of the forum that this will be fixed, should be in the next update: - Unlinked several parts from Argument 114 dummy to make whole airframe visible from cockpit. As for cockpit head limitations for VR, those would have to be implemented by ED on core level in order for us to be able to restrict head movement individually for our module.

I could stick my head out of pretty much every module I've tried so far, but i will ask Rudel if something can be done about it.

He's perfectionist. No amount of work has ever stopped him :)

I've asked for the SPO-10 (the experimental feature) to permanently replace previous solution, since there were no issues with it reported during testing phase.

Airframe to an airframe Zero is vastly superior to F4F. But no aircraft exists alone. Its a part of a whole ecosystem where pilot, tactics, doctrine and other factors play key role. John Lundstrom's First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign explains that in fine details, including tactics. Zeros in 1942 had very favorable K/D ratio against Allied aircraft. But not so for 1943, not to mention 1944. Little had that however to do with an airframe, but more with pilot skills and increasing Allied technological and material superiority.

It's just having a bad day :) We're working on that guys, dont worry.

No, thats only external.

After the next update which should contain list of changes indicated here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4347136&postcount=21

Apparently Cuban MiG-21s can carry R-73s. That requires some rewiring of the aircraft to provide power and operation to the APU-73 pylons. Normally MiG-21bis does not support those. However I dont see that happening any time soon, since we dont have any schematics or documents on how exactly was it done.

Cooling is needed in all climates. This is radar he's talking about, remember. As for alcohol only. It makes sense, since water tends to freeze in low temperatures which obviously would pose problems when you start the aircraft and want to warm up that radar. It could rupture cooling system or make its operation impossible. Alcohol on the other hand has much lower freezing point.

It's likely specific to Nvidia GPUs. At least is associated with a change in their drivers.

Whoever is experiencing it and notices solid FPS drop, please provide the track if possible. Just a short track from flyby when you try the radar on /off. We need it for internal review.

Yes, thats precisely what we're trying to do with new radar / gunsight system but as stated in an update, we need EDs cooperation in order to provide actual solution and fix. Temporary solution is to revert to older Nvidia drivers. I fly in VR and I'm using 442.50 from Feb which seems to help a lot.

Confirmed. I have some files to test new fixes and will see tomorrow if they change anything. If not I will forward it.

Maybe ... :)

Not really. The ones mentioned in newsletter were actual for the date it was posted. Anything post that is subsequently submitted or will be and I dont have insight into that until changelog will be composed.

Fixes arent released mistakenly. Only bugs :) We've released some fixes and submitted more that should come in following updates.

Will test it today, thank you for reporting it.

I have observed this issue on the day of launch, I suspect its somehow related to new suspension model. In any event, i have forwarded it to devs to solve it as soon as possible.

Yes, ED changes something in the code every now and than which affects the lights. We've readjusted lights again, they will come with Phase 1 update of external model. Also, I've forwarded that issue with pink light to Rudel as well. Thanks for bringing this up to our attention guys !

Confirmed, will forward to the devs.