1:54 oh a brother from another mother, I am very excited about the Dauntless. Formation flying and rolling into a dive through thick flak. It's going to be awesome
Just watched this video... every thingy looks good to me but a flew things I do on my copy... first, load and fuel need to be balanced to get optimum of range and altitude... next, 'step climb' to altitude. Flight at a lower altitude allows burning off fuel/weight. Next step is achieved with a lighter load... also climb at a lower vertical speed... say on take off, try a max of one thousand fpm, then as you climb higher reduce that to 500 fpm... as I gain altitude and speed, I try to change the propeller pitch as well as changings the mixture from full rich to cruise (marked on the pedestal). As I go through the long climb, in steps, I also watch the cylinder head temps as to much climbing threatens to over heat the heads which can cause damage. Overall, this is not your best bet for a 'study' level aircraft, but this I will say, after having a framed art piece of this craft for twenty years on my wall... 'it was not for nothing' that Howard Hughes bought this plane for TWA and even an example for himself to try for a world record! I can also say that I just read that some of these craft were in use right up until about 1960. Overall, there were scant few made. But they were based upon the b-17 bomber airframe so it was technically 'high performance' for the time. unfortunately for the type, WWII ramped up the rate of change and this plane was greatly overtaken by Lockheed and Douglas. They were all commandeered by the Army at the outset of the war and the first thing they did was rip out practically the whole of the interiors to lighten them up and also add enormous ferry tanks. Because there were so few of them to start with, it is had to find any concrete record of their use during the war, but from the scraps available, it seems to me they were used a lot to move VIPs around as well as maybe a few clandestine sea searches for submarines. I like this low cost model a lot and I have had some great fun already. I suspect that if you keep trying you will get it to at least twenty thousand feet (these early propeller craft did not always fly at maximum ceiling, as a lot depended upon the route, weather, winds aloft, and such). Carry on! Great video and You will find out a lot more on this wonder of history. THANKS for the great SHARE! AND to all, as delivered, this weas a very heavily fitted plane... two thirds of it were for sleeper 'compartments' and one third for lower fare passengers in a single seat aisle. The pressurization equipment was also heavy. The rule of the day is STEP climb; change the mixture and prop pitch to gain speed on each step and reduce rate of climb unttl only about 300 fpm at the last. "IMHO" but I could be wrong.
Totally agree on the power front, the whole point of this plane when it was introduced was to be able to "fly above the weather" and this simply doesn't cut it. We have modeled superchargers in the (unpressurized!) DC-3 so why not here? +1 for flying VFR with vintage propliners, it's a blast! Would love to see the B377 Stratocruiser and/or some early turboprops like the L-188 Electra or the Viscount.
Nice video. I got the 307 few days ago in the sale and I really wanted to like it but it's quite a buggy disappointment so far. It's not the the plane that is advertised, like in the PDF manual. Must be some weaker variant. Can't be the 307. Or it's just broken and totally bugged. Cuz while flying it I was also asking myself same questions: what am I doing wrong??? I slowly (very slowly) made it to FL180 and almost fell out of the sky :( Also, there has been an update but it didn't fix anything. The altimeter now has an extra 6 instead of an 8. Sloppy work, what can i say haha...
You should try onair manager for career mode. They have a free trial and the sub is relatively inexpensive. I picked it up last month and haven't looked back. Def adds a much needed element to msfs.
Typical video game bs. There is no way the newport could so vastly out match the pfaltz unless it had a very very green german pilot which would be doubtful to be allocated a pfaltz d x.ii
Hindenburg Daimler Engine Casing Recipe 1 .Empty toilet roll cut in half at the centre to make two smaller toilet rolls; 2. Cut the egg carton up so that each cardboard cell will fit over the the halved empty toilet roll. That was the Daimler Engine Chases casing for the Engine on the Hindenburg.
The Ju87-G with the 3.7cm cannons was difficult in real life, as in IL-2 GB, to be very effective with. You must be precise with your shots, because you have so few rounds of ammo. In the game this means getting your joystick tuned properly to not cause overcorrections as you make your gun run. You also need to be very patient to set up for the proper attack approaches. Hitting the sides and rear upper decks is the best way to destroy tanks, but requires a climb and short dive for each attack. Not a huge problem when there are no enemy fighters, but if there are.... If you still enjoy IL-2 GB, you might find that using the German air-burst bombs are very effective against armor. Use the AB250s (they are the ones intended for anti-armor) and learn how to set the fuze to detonate a second or two before they would otherwise hit the ground. You will need to learn how to use the Stuka's bomb release altimeter to make sure you have dropped at the proper altitude to give the AB250 enough time to fall yet still detonate above your target. Because it is a cluster bomb you can sometimes take out multiple tanks if they are closely packed.
TYPHOON BECAME A TANK BUSTER, AND GENERAL GROUND ATTACK, LOT OF POWER AT LOW ALTIDUDE, WAS PRIMARLEY GOING TO BE HIGH Altitude FIGHTER, BUT DIDNT PERFORM WELL ENOUGH
Id really like to build one. Theres a high altitude lab in japan. I want to design a machine a cryocooler that can be lifted with high altitude balloons at higher altitudes i believe the possibility of capturing helium gas will be much better. I read a patent for hydrogen helium gas mix thats safe. It should give 60.8poumds of lift per 1000cubic feet.
Se fabricaron más de 1100 fue el caza Insignia de la Regia Aeronáutica estaba equipado con un motor Alemán Daimler Benz 605 su única desventaja su escaso armamento según los pilotos Italianos era fácil de volar por lo que se mantuvo activo hasta el final del conflicto 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Yes, you are correct They should have called this series "The Battle of the Rhein" It starts on September 17, 1944 the opening days of Operation Market Garden and ends on April 1st 1945 shortly after the Battle of Remagen.
@one word here one word there There certainly were "smaller ones". The fact that "Hindenburg" was numbered LZ129 means that she was the hundred and twenty-ninth airship designed (but not necessarily built) by the Zeppelin Company. For a complete list, look up "List of Zeppelins" on Wikipedia.
The early 109's and Spitfires were fundamentally different types of fighter...the 109 an energy boom-and-zoom, the Spit a maneuvering dogfighter. As power levels and weights grew during the wartime development, the Spit gained the vertical edge over the 109 without losing its manuevering advantage.
