Mogster

Here’s the flight log of R5868 the RAF museum’s Lancaster. Although the crew does change and it’s taken up by various people you can see it’s often flown by the same pilot/crew for periods of time suggesting it was a preferred or personal aircraft. https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-12-Avro-Lancaster-R5868.pdf

I find that hard to believe. When you read pilots memoirs they seem to be flying the same aircraft, sometimes with personally applied names, decoration, kill tallies.

ED have said the Battle of Britain is on the menu. That’ll mean the Spit mk1 and 109 E. The BOB planes would also be useful for Barbarossa style scenarios, we already have the very nice I16 from Mr Octopus. According to ED Silver Dragon Octopus G has a new and unannounced DCS project in the works. It seems likely it’s another Russian plane, or at least an Eastern front suitable aircraft. I enjoyed the Eastern Front campaigns in Maddox IL2. I can see a Yak being easier than an La. La’s being wooden haven’t survived well. References seem difficult with Russian planes also, although having a Russian speaking team working on them would make things easier I’d imagine.

I can imagine we’ll see more 109, 190 and Spitfire variants.

The La 9 would only only be useful for Korea, it entered service after WW2.

I’d imagine the P38 will arrive sooner than later. Surely it falls into the low hanging fruit category of WW2 single seat aircraft with easily available data and readily available airworthy examples. P38 P40 P39 Hurricane F6F F4F

Starting as EDs Su 27 Flanker series 25 years ago DCS has always been about modern jets. DCS WW2 is a relatively new departure as is modelling WW2 aircraft to the level ED are doing. As it’s a relatively new niche the business model is a bit up in the air also, I’m not sure EDs bare bones, “here’s your plane, go fly it” approach seems as reasonable for WW2 as it does for modern avionics heavy jets. Also it takes time to draw players away from established products like IL2 46, IL2 BOS and MSFS, flight simmers tend to be older players who are set in their ways…

The Ju88 was more of a traditional multi crew medium bomber though. If it was caught be day fighters it was curtains. The Mosquito was different as it could at least run from day fighters and give them trouble in the right hands. I do agree some of the late war Ju88 G variants were paced though although no where near as maneuverable as the Mosquito.

The “dangerous dustbin”…

We could have even more fun with the Molins

The only role the Mosquito couldn’t perform was day fighter. The RAF spent a lot of time and effort trying to develop tactics that would work when the Mosquito encountered single engined fighters but nothing really did, it was a waste of time. The best tactic was to run away which the. Osquito was good at. If people think the Mosquito will be handy in the day fighter role they are going to be disappointed, it’s a fast bomber, intruder and bomber destroyer.

They are the same RP-3 or 60lbs rockets. There were many different types of warhead though I think.

The new external model does look amazing.

Sounds dicey with a full load of ammo, bombs, RPs.

Miles M39 Libellula?

ED haven’t said they’ll never do it, just not now. Given the nature of the aircraft it doesn’t surprise me that data and documents are difficult.

The US allowed private citizens to buy surplus aircraft after WW2 so pilots could buy an example of the plane they flew for $1500 and shove it in their barn if they wished. Some of these were sold on later and re-armed, P51s (and F4Us) were still equipping small airforces in Africa and S America through the 70s. The last dogfight and shoot down between piston fighters was in S America in the 70s I think. So it’s no surprise that there’s still plenty of P51s knocking about. I’m sure the Merlin being fairly common makes maintenance easier. Even if you could restore a Tempest V to airworthy you’ve got the added problem of the Napier Sabre to contend with which no one has even seen running for years unfortunately.

We paid Ilya Shevchenko money, wherever he is… Not ED. If we had a contract it was with Luthier, not ED, as I understand it ED never saw any of our Kickstarter money. The way things went I’m just glad I received anything in return. Tbh I feel like I’ve got a bargain with the content I’ve already been supplied with.

More https://www.keymilitary.com/article/mosquito-added-bite This article suggests Molins + RPs were a standard loadout. The Molins equipt Mossies had the outer 30 cals removed to reduce strain on the airframes.

Yes. We have “DCS WW2” with planes, assets and maps and it’s easy to see the advantages of focus already. Going forward why not have DCS Korea? DCS Vietnam? DCS Europe 1980 “Red Storm Rising”. Some planes and assets would be transferable, some would need to be new but it would give everything a sandbox to fit in to and it’s easy to see which parts are missing and if stuff was to be made which would have most value. This will be increasingly important when the dynamic campaign is ready.

The Spit already has the pops and bangs when you throttle back, so hopefully the Mosquito will as well.

From a marketing point of view I’d be surprised if we have 2 WW2 releases close together, I’d expect a couple of months at least. I may be greedy but I am interested to see what’s next on the DCS WW2 menu though We were aware of the Kickstarter planes but now (other than the 262) they are done so it’s ED and their partners choice.

An article with some Farnborough photos. It’s hard to identify all the types present. There’s definitely an He 177 at the back, Ta 152 also, Mb5. https://falkeeinsgreatplanes.blogspot.com/2014/11/captured-enemy-aircraft-at-farnborough.html More, post #38 https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/captured-aircrafts-uk.32131/

I suspect P51s are common as they were used long after WW2, same for F4Us, P38s and P47s are quite rare. Spitfire’s aren’t really in short supply. There are quite a few Mossies in preservation, even the prototype has survived incredibly, it’s just that making them airworthy is expensive. The real gaps in the UK WW2 warbird single seat roster are the Typhoon (only one) and Tempest V, Whirlwind also. IIrc the UK in the 1940s (and Germany I think still) had laws about private individuals owning military hardware so they couldn’t be sold off like obsolete RAF aircraft are now. If they weren’t preserved by the government “RAF historic branch” they were scrapped. It’s tragic to see photos from Farnborough in the late 1940s with lots of really rare, particularly German, types lined up next to each other waiting to be scrapped. Tbh the US scrapped a lot of captured rare German and Japanese stuff also. Worse there are very few German, Japanese, Russian WW2 originals in existence, even common types.

The rocket install looks odd so far outboard on the wings but I suppose it’s the only way to clear the enormous props.