Mogster

Watching this video the other day I did notice how easily the aircraft rolls. It’s almost as if it’s only the brakes that are stopping forward motion. 2:30 he just rolls forward at walking pace with the prop visibly just idling.

Agree completely. The reason I moved away from FFB was wanting a modern stick and there really are no modern high end consumer level FFB sticks. A couple of hundred GBP for a good peripheral I can justify, but a grand for a stick, not really.

Yes right for Merlin, left for Griffon.

So you get a months free of everything each year? I’m sure ED have market research to back up this decision but it does seem like a lot to give away. It’s refusing cash for those impulse purchases… Didn’t Matt W say that the modal time of use of a DCS module was 10 minutes? That’s a heck of a lot of people buying then never really getting beyond their first flight, now they can put their toe in the water without buying. At least no one with a flight stick has an excuse for not installing DCS and giving whatever takes their fancy a try now.

He has it back by the end, Just not enough altitude to recover. The report suggests the engine quit due to incorrect carb setting. I’d guess a lot of guys died in similar incidents during WW2.

Yes. I can imagine that’d be quite disconcerting if you’d been flying Merlin Spits for a couple of years… The Mk XIV would be nice to have, if only to see just how different it is to the MkIX we have.

Definitely. Spit XIV deployment was very limited, only around a 100 or so operational at any one time compared to over 1000 Spit IXs available. The Griffon Spits were beasts, many average pilots struggled to adjust to the changes after being very familiar with Merlin variants and would be RTU to their Spit IX squadrons. The Tempest was a similar hot rod, limited deployment to better pilots in a handful of squadrons while the Typhoon had nearly 20 squadrons on station by 1945.

500kgs is 1000lbs near enough. That’s a big carry for a WW2 fighter.

Post Chastise the converted Lancasters were used for research, agent and supply drops drops and as general hacks for the rest of the war and afterwards. The last were broken up in July 1947. Gibsons AJ-G survived till then, although it is recorded as being damaged in a takeoff incident in late 1946. It’s inconceivable to me AJ-G wasn’t preserved, even if damaged it could have been repaired at a later date. It should have pride of place at Hendon aviation museum. It’s provenance was obviously known as its control column and throttle quadrant were removed and are now at Lincs aviation museum. More info https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/pleszak.blog/2019/08/20/what-happened-to-the-lancasters-used-on-the-dambuster-raid/amp/

Actually now I think about it it’s more BAe UK Salmsbury making significant F35 components with the aircraft being assembled in the US, up to now at least the UK F35s seem to be arriving from the US. There is an F35 gate guardian outside the Salmsbury plant now. Yes, I thought ED had a separate WW2 team. It does feel like WW2 is being abandoned somewhat. It’s unfortunate as 3rd party devs will probably factor this in when deciding to commit to making WW2 aircraft for DCSW.

I see your point but the EF is a UK product though, or at least partly by consortium. The Tornado and Jag were the same. Harrier was a completely British effort with collaboration later. The UK F35 and AH64s are built in the UK under licence, or at least assembled locally. UK involvement in F35 has been quite large.

Aye, the always exposed landing gear and the cheese wheel make the AH-64 particularly visually offensive The Russkies know a thing or two about making a cool looking military rotor craft, the Mi24 and Kamov 50 both look frightening. Id say that in the UK at least the WW2 Mosquito would probably get more recognition than the current RAF and UK AAC stable. The EF, F35 and AH64 don’t really seem to have captured the imagination of the public the way the Jag, Harrier and Tornado did in the 80s. Maybe it’s the reduction in air shows, who knows?

It’s seems like one only and it was already in a bad state iirc, fit for ground running only. Most of the airframes featured flying in the films flying sequences still survive in museums.

With all these “bridles” littering the sea floor I wonder if future civilisations will be able to determine what they were used for...

I find it amazing now that in the early 60s the 633 squadron producers could turn up so many flyable Mosquitoes, around 10 I think, just in the UK. Now just having a single flyable example based in the UK would be a thing of wonder

Yes. It seems the instrument could turn but the turning was just manual by a group of squaddies. It’s the same result, no?

I find it more surprising that in WW2 some factions had useable radar and others didn’t, the proof of concept work was completed in the 1880s. Mid 1942, Midway, the USN has 45minute warning of surprise guests, the Japanese are only aware of an attack when the USN is knocking on their door. It changes the whole battle and quite possibly world history. It seems incredible that the Japanese, viewed as possibly the most technologically advanced of nations now in 1942 has a surface fleet totally without radar.

Even the “dead” middle position of the flaps selector? That one is especially annoying.

No, but it seems like a way forward. Imagine a Northern UK, Iceland, Scandinavia map. With land use changes it could be used for WW2 and Cold War and current “what if” scenarios. EF2000 had a similar map back in the day.

Yes I don’t see why we could have a bit more warning as the tank gets low. Your car engine typically doesn’t just quit as your fuel runs out, rpm will start to drop and return as the remaining fuel sloshes around and pickup becomes sporadic.

Yes

I agree some longstanding issues need to be looked at but ED are hardly “throwing” WW2 modules out, we haven’t had a release for 12 months nearly...

The modern Marianas map is looking great. No WW2 news at all again this week? A year or so ago it felt like DCS WW2 was really gathering pace. Not so now, you can see the numbers of new posts dwindling in the WW2 section also, people are drifting away unfortunately.

I was slightly obsessed with 633 Squadron as a kid, and the Dambusters. It didn’t help that both were regularly on TV on Sunday afternoons in the UK as they still are... The casting of George Chakiris as a Norwegian in 633 Squadron always makes me laugh...