Mogster

Well according to Silver Dragon Mr Octopus is working on a follow up to his I-16. Personally I’d be more surprised if it wasn’t Russian and WW2 so…

Is it crypto though really? I’m still not convinced. NV 4000 will be 2023 probably, maybe big energy demand.

I suspect demand for these high end gaming GPUs was relatively small previously. During lockdown and furlough people had the time and money to get into high end PC gaming. No holidays, no hospitality, no entertainment and wages still being paid leaves people with a lot of disposable time and income it seems. I do wonder who’s paying £2500 for a 3090 though

Aye OK, I was advocating the Ju52 in a more general sense really. Surely their absence just indicates that air transport was pretty much impossible for the Luftwaffe over France/Holland in mid 1944. How many LeOs did the Luftwaffe actually operate? Not many? The Ju52 is far more important in the context of the whole of WW2.

Used plenty in the Atlantic also. A PBY shadowed the Bismarck.

Yes but commercially releasing 2 modules close together makes no sense. Also we’ve had no indication that the F4U is ready for prime time.

Its Mosquito time. I don’t think we’ll be hearing more about the F4U for a while.

No it’s the Ju52. J52 was much more common, much more rugged.

There are differences in RR and Packard Merlins but pretty much all Merlins rotate clockwise.

Merlins rotate clockwise, Griffons anti clockwise. The only Merlins to rotate anti clockwise were on the DH Hornet and they were special and even had different designations. I think the idea was to produce as many Merlins as possible and to do so make the manufacturing as, in modern terms “lean” as it could be. Anything superfluous was dropped so as to maximise the number of Merlins turned out. The RR Peregrine for the W Whirlwind was canned to make more Merlins in its place, the Pergegrine engine came in clockwise and anti clockwise versions iirc. The Mosquito and Lancaster worked fine with their clockwise Merlins it seems so the compromise must have been judged worth making.

Would be historical for the FB Mosquito also.

Difficult to model due to the details of the Sabre engine, same goes for the Tempest.

Pathfinders. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Wolstenholme Kenneth Wolsteholme is a household name in the UK as the voice of the 1966 World Cup final. Less well known is that he also flew 100 missions with bomber command earning the DFC flying Mosquitoes with 8 Pathfinder Group.

I understand what happens to the propeller but what does the feathering button actually do when it’s pressed then? Is it like a toggle?

The RAF AFDU didn’t view the Mosquito as a good day fighter. They spent quite a long time flying 43 era Mosquitoes (Merlin 23) against RAF and captured Luftwaffe types concluding that the Mosquito wasn’t a capable offensive day fighter. They did rate the Mosquitoes capacity for defensive evasion though it’s speed and ability to corkscrew made it difficult to hit. Interestingly apparently the AFDU converted a Mosquito into a single seater, lightening it by 1500lbs and finding it’s rate of climb and manoeuvrability improved. In this condition they judged it able to defeat all but the highest performing day fighters, Spit and 109, but able to defeat 190 and Typhoon class heavy fighters by out climbing them. This probably encouraged DH to proceed with the Hornet.

‘Bob’ Braham had 9 aerial kills flying the Mosquito FB in daylight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Braham_(RAF_officer) Crazy stuff…

Impressive rain on windscreen effects though, you can’t say that’s not immersive. Driveclub has the best rain on glass effects I’ve ever seen, there’s even a bit of smearing and streaking due to dirt trapped between the class and rubber.

They’re not wiping though are they?

Yes, the Channel map looks nice but it really is tiny. Taking off in the Spit from Biggin it’s surprising how quickly you can reach the bottom of the map.

The A10C has exactly the same alarm. There’s a nice gear horn mute button you can press on the WH throttle though…

That’s the main problem I see with modelling the 262, you have to attempt to model it’s fragile engines.

Surely you never start the aircraft in the hanger anyway, you’d blow the doors of or suchlike…

Agree 100%, but for some reason people only seem to want to fly late war super props. The same goes for the PTO.

Yes.