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Is the garbling of the "Thunderbolt" name on that last screen a result of resolution, or does it need to be moved. Doesn't look very good...

Don't forget, we are working with two different verisons of the game, I am added the data base from one into the game of another

the plane name slot is 20 long, but it appears that the screen, is set to less, that will be worked on later

it looks bad now, but it is not importent enough to break off the bug hunts to fix, once the bugs and features are pretty well in hand, then we can get back to the making it pretty

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

oh, and in case your wondering

the 56th first flew with 108 gallon tanks on Sept 27, 150 gallon tanks on Feb 20th 44

Did they use only one tank or three ? Was it possible to use three 108/150 gal tanks or had the wing tanks to be smaller ?

now that is the confusing part

I have seen pic's of the 150 tank under the wings

but some reports still say the wing pylons were not strong enough, and had to be made stronger to hold the heavier tanks, bombs

over all, I think it was the new wing on the D-20 that it had the wings that were strong enough to carry them

(LOL I got a pic of a P-47M with 150 wing tanks, but, the M didn't have wing shackles)

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
over all, I think it was the new wing on the D-20 that it had the wings that were strong enough to carry them

Just to be heretical, is it worth having all the competing variants? Can they be mixed in one unit? If not, it might be worth considering boiling them down to representative versions; as a Spit fan I don't see a lot of point in the HF/LF variants of the Spit IX being modelled, although I would argue for a late-war bubble-canopy, rear-fuselage tankage, E-wing variant.

(LOL I got a pic of a P-47M with 150 wing tanks, but, the M didn't have wing shackles)

That's why we need a P-47N for '45 as well as the M [:)]

On another note, if the Kittyhawk IV is the P-40N, the altitude performance should be slightly worse than the Merlin-engined F- and L models. They'd gone out of production by the spring of '43 - are they being produced in the new game? I know the 12th AF were still using their stock of F and L's as late as the end of '43.

On another note, if the Kittyhawk IV is the P-40N, the altitude performance should be slightly worse than the Merlin-engined F- and L models. They'd gone out of production by the spring of '43 - are they being produced in the new game? I know the 12th AF were still using their stock of F and L's as late as the end of '43.

roger all of the P-40s have odditys

yes, the F and L will be better at Med Alt then the III or IV, but all will still be very poor at High alt

there will be a limited production of the F and L until 44, none for the III, bigger for the IV, in 44 only the IV will remain in production