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First time I landed at National airport, I was amazed it was right on the Potomac!...

Holy cow!
 
Just made it through this entire thread.
 
BTW, this is not a placekeeper thread.
 
I think I am about ready to have AE released.  Keep up the good work guys.
 

ORIGINAL: Pascal

ORIGINAL: HMSWarspite

4" clearance when taxying = not viable on anything other than the most high quality strip... And for good measure the B26 was a pig - a real widow maker if you didn't know what you were doing. I thing horrendous accidental losses might also have been a worry!

According to Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography, the 'widow maker' story about the B-26 was a myth.

Some aspects of it were (like the story that it couldn't fly on one engine). However for inexperienced pilots (i.e. Not Doolittle) it was a hand full... Classic case of an expert telling a normal mortal 'don't know what the problem is, it's easy - see'

final 6 pack. Dixie guessed right and these are his requests:

Beautiful Lanc there, Cathartes![&o][&o]

ORIGINAL: Cathartes

final 6 pack. Dixie guessed right and these are his requests:

Beautiful [&o] Thanks mate [:)]

Every one of those look fantastic!

Especially like the birdcage Corsair..Very much appreciate how you have managed to subdue your colors to show how they really looked in use..

Cathartes' art range from the superb to the suplime (and there's a lot of it too!). My favorite ATM is probably the Thunderbolt Mk I.

The original game had some issues representing floatplanes of certain types. I think there are some Dutch bombers that were floatplanes, but are not capable of operating without an airbase in the game. Is the system made more robust? Shouldn't the "float-capable" attribute be independent from what the aircraft can do *once it is in the air*? 

Not sure I understand what you mean?[&:]

I mean the Dutch Fokker T.IVa, which is classified as a torpedo bomber and cannot be flown without an airbase, which is nonsense (it was a floatplane and even the in-game picture shows that...).

Oh, that one... There's been plenty of controversy about the T.IV, and for what it's worth, I have no idea why this was made a torpedo bomber in stock.

In AE, it's a patrol plane, like the PBY, the Do-24, the Sunderland and so on, and it doesn't carry a torpedo, since it never did in real life.

Sounds good, but...I'm assuming that there isn't some hardcoded restriction to prevent floatplanes from being used in attack roles? Certainly Emilies and Catalinas could and did carry torpedoes?

BTW, stumbled on this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_H5Y I'm not expert by any means, so I have no idea if the Wiki article is correct, but are these things in the database? Seems like they were used operationally...

No, patrol planes can be equipped with torpedoes or bombs, as player intent and present supplies dictate. There's a new toggle button for that.

As for the H5Y, it's not currently in the DB. With only 20 built, and with very little operational use, I'm thinking there probably wasn't enough documentation for its use, and it didn't make the cut.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Oh, that one... There's been plenty of controversy about the T.IV, and for what it's worth, I have no idea why this was made a torpedo bomber in stock.

In AE, it's a patrol plane, like the PBY, the Do-24, the Sunderland and so on, and it doesn't carry a torpedo, since it never did in real life.

Oh boy, now I can grumble every time a T.IVa torpedoes one of my ships. [:D]

Are you SURE the Focker TIVa even made it to the DEI?

One other thing (only a minor complaint) - in Witp the air combat animation had no scale for the different AC types involved (eg. the fighters were as big as the bombers). In CHS this has been fiddled with a bit, but still not great. Will we see some sort of realistic scaling in AE?

ORIGINAL: Flying Tiger

Are you SURE the Focker TIVa even made it to the DEI?

That's irrefutable historical fact. 11 of them were used for training purposes by MLD (Royal Netherlands East Indies Naval Air Force) squadrons GVT-12 and -14.

ORIGINAL: Flying Tiger

One other thing (only a minor complaint) - in Witp the air combat animation had no scale for the different AC types involved (eg. the fighters were as big as the bombers). In CHS this has been fiddled with a bit, but still not great. Will we see some sort of realistic scaling in AE?

The plane tops are made by TheElf, so they're of fantastic quality, and generally to scale.