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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Wellington IC should be replaced by IIIC, Unsure of what units were equipped with, they may have arrived in theatre with IC but upgraded to IIIC Looking further.??

Thanks

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: JeffK

Wellington IC should be replaced by IIIC, Unsure of what units were equipped with, they may have arrived in theatre with IC but upgraded to IIIC Looking further.??

Thanks

Wellington MkICs were in India and were fairly common, but the MkIII and MkX the more usual types as the war progressed.

ORIGINAL: W T Door

I'm curious about changes to some of the planes in AE (it's sounding pretty good already).

Will the US four engine transports such as the C-54 appear? Yes

Some of the patrol planes such as Ventura/Harpoon series aren't terribly useful now, even though with the addition of radar, early sonobuoys and MAD they should be much more effective than in stock. Has this been addressed? Yes

How a back of the envelope comparisson of the PB4Y and PB4Y-2? ????

Will we have the C-46? I don't have any references handy, but believe it was pretty common in the Pacific theater. Yes

Okay - why the large drop in performance for the newer model? Was the new radar that much heavier/more wind resistant?

ORIGINAL: W T Door

Probably the lack of supercharged engines and typically lower altitude flight profiles. The engines can't be run as lean at lower altitudes that search and ASW missions will tend to dictate and the Navy used the non-supercharged engines since they didn't feel that there would be any need for high altitude flight. This is probably also the reasoning behind replacing the ball turret with a radar, the radar would enhance the search capability of the plane while the lower altitude flight path would largely preclude attacks from below.
I'm pretty sure that the LOFAR buoys that they used back then were dropped from a pretty low altitude, too. Consequently ASW flights tended to be low altitude for this reason and to accomaodate MAD. I had a shipmate who had been an accoustic operator on S2s and trained in TBMs. The method they employed was to drop a bouy, an accoustic charge and a dye marker. Apparently this was the genisis of the "now, now, now" call when launching bouys today, it timed the sequence of the drops for all this stuff.

It will also be interesting to see how the blimps operate in AE.

Thanks for the info, that's what I was looking for, now to sweat out the release date.....

ORIGINAL: TheElf

In addition to the following stats Thomas (brilliantly) often uses A/C of different series to help control the supply of those A/C in the game. So while two models might otherwise be identical aside from designation it benefits the pace of the game and realism to seperate the two so that the impact from production dleays, ramp ups, etc. may still be felt

PB4Y-1:
1 Top Turret, 1 Bottom Turret (both 2 x .50)
10 x 500lb internal
ASB Radar
Cruise Speed = 200
Max Speed = 303
Available 12-42
Max Range = 77 hex (3043 nm)
Norm Range = 20 Hex (792 nm)
Ext Combat RNG = 25 Hex (989 nm)
Max Alt = 32k'

PB4Y-2:
2 Top Turret (both 2 x .50)
8 x 500lb internal
ASG Radar
Cruise Speed = 158
Max Speed = 249
Available 7-44
Max Range = 64 hex (2522 nm)
Norm Range = 17 Hex (656 nm)
Ext Combat RNG = 21 Hex (820 nm)
Max Alt = 18.3k'

Someone pointed out that allied (US especially) air units will be in size of squadrons. What will the names be like?
As in WITP aka: 90th BS
or with name of their Group aka: 90th BS / 3rd BG

ORIGINAL: Cathartes

Someone pointed out that allied (US especially) air units will be in size of squadrons. What will the names be like?
As in WITP aka: 90th BS
or with name of their Group aka: 90th BS / 3rd BG

Yes.