January 28, 201412 yr The entry 3181, French CVL Bois Belleau, has Aircraft capacity=0, it should be=32
January 28, 201412 yr Author ... also Seafire F.III and F.XV for French use in Indochina). Were these withdrawn prior to 1950?
January 28, 201412 yr It's a very old reference, I will check it. Probably based on squadron story analysis.
January 28, 201412 yr Ok, probably not worth of include in on the DB, MkIII (employed in Indochine) retired in 1949 and MkXV in 1951, they were apparently a stop-gap measure waiting for the Hellcats: http://www.ffaa.net/aircraft/seafire/seafire_fr.htm
January 29, 201412 yr Author Ok, probably not worth of include in on the DB, MkIII (employed in Indochine) retired in 1949 and MkXV in 1951, they were apparently a stop-gap measure waiting for the Hellcats: http://www.ffaa.net/aircraft/seafire/seafire_fr.htm That is my understanding as well.
January 29, 201412 yr B-29 Superfortress/Washington types lack the speed at High, B-29 Tarzon lacks all the speeds.
January 29, 201412 yr Author B-29 Superfortress/Washington types lack the speed at High, B-29 Tarzon lacks all the speeds. The Tarzon entry is obviously an omission on my part. The other issues are similar to a problem we had with the afterburning jets earlier in this thread. Basically, some of these aircraft are incapable of high altitude cruise. Before now, I think I fudged the numbers by simply repeating the medium altitude cruise speed, which isn't entirely satisfactory from an accuracy point of view but forestalls GE function issues (especially when the AI is flying). If you leave those fields at zero, and then try to cruise at High, the aircraft will loiter and the player must push it to military speed. The AI, however, doesn't have the same smarts. So this approach is not useful. I didn't test putting a value "higher than military speed" in the field and seeing if the aircraft will automatically go to a military setting. Something I will do if you don't get to it first (be my guest). That might be another workable solution.
January 29, 201412 yr Curiously this afternoon I was reading the SAC charts B-29 speeds at heights, and at last I understand as in the tables is graphically showed as a B-29 can't flight above 35000 feet with normal power, and is forced to use maximum power, and I was wondering about if was possible or not to model it in HC, but I think not, not yet ... http://www.alternatewars.com/SAC/B-29_Superfortress_SAC_-_19_April_1950.pdf
February 1, 201412 yr Entry 13368 Sea Venom FAW.21 (UK) needs to be changed to "Runway: STOL aircraft" and "Propulsion: Jet, CVL cpbl" to be full carrier capable (also, Medium Altitude Military Speed should be higher, at least higher than Height Altitude Military Speed, same in other Venoms and Vampires).
February 3, 201412 yr I didn't test putting a value "higher than military speed" in the field and seeing if the aircraft will automatically go to a military setting. Something I will do if you don't get to it first (be my guest). That might be another workable solution. I'm sorry, that approach don't work. In the test (a B-29 employed by the AI and attacking at low altitude)I essay with military speed=270, cruise speed=271. The AI guided B-29 flies at cruise speed=271, don't employing the military speed My idea now is perhaps to set a cruise speed very near to military speed (in this example, cruise speed=269, military speed=270), we don't get less range because military power use (the AI will flight at cruise speed=269), but at least we get less endurance ...
February 4, 201412 yr Author I didn't test putting a value "higher than military speed" in the field and seeing if the aircraft will automatically go to a military setting. Something I will do if you don't get to it first (be my guest). That might be another workable solution. I'm sorry, that approach don't work. In the test (a B-29 employed by the AI and attacking at low altitude)I essay with military speed=270, cruise speed=271. The AI guided B-29 flies at cruise speed=271, don't employing the military speed My idea now is perhaps to set a cruise speed very near to military speed (in this example, cruise speed=269, military speed=270), we don't get less range because military power use (the AI will flight at cruise speed=269), but at least we get less endurance ... Thanks, Enrique. This is the approach that we will use in the interim.
February 6, 201412 yr Author I'm working in a table about the confuse CV-9 Essex class and his modernizations (based on many books aand evidence on navsource.org potos), but it will late. But as simplification we can add more ship names to the two modernized Essex types present on the DB: Entry 2074 Essex (SCB-125/52)(1/55-76), 8x127mm singles in open mounts, 6x2x76mm mounts, mostly with SPS-6C/D, SPS-8, SPS-10, SPN-6 radars fit, naval ECM Gen 1 (TDY and later). The conversion is independent of her dedication to CVS or CVA. Speed 32 knots: Intrepid Yorktown Randolph Wasp Bennington Kearsarge Antietam (angled deck test, not full SCB-125 conversion, keeps 4x2x127mm turrets) Hornet Ticonderoga (to 1973) Bon Homme Richard (to 1971) Hancock (to 1976?) Oriskany (to 1976) Shangri La Essex Lexington Entry 2077 Essex (SCB-144/61)(3/61-74), and also increasing the aircraft capacity to 95, as some were employed after the SCB-144 conversion as CVA, some 4x127mm singles in open mounts, 76mm all deleted, mostly with the SPS-30, SPS-43A, SPS-10, SPN-6, navigation radar, radars fit and SQS-23 (in some CVS, details below), naval ECM Gen 1 (TDY and later) and DECM Gen 1 (ULQ-6 and others?). The conversion is independent of her dedication to CVS or CVA, some few changing from one to another task, all the classified as CVS were classified CVS previously to her SCB-144 conversion, when classified CVS lossed all the 76mm guns. Speed 30 knots.: Hancock Intrepid SCB-144/FRAM II 1966 and SQS-23. Hornet SCB-144/FRAM II 7/64-2/65 and SQS-23. Randolph SCB-144/FRAM II 3/1961 and SQS-23. Wasp SCB-144/FRAM II 1964 and SQS-23. Kearsarge SCB-144/FRAM II 1962 and SQS-23. Bon Homme Richard Essex SCB-144/FRAM II 3/62-9/62 and SQS-23. Lexington Ticonderoga Bennington SCB-144/FRAM II 9/62-3/63 and SQS-23. Yorktown SCB-144/FRAM II 2/67-10/67 but was the only limited SCB-144 conversion without SQS-23. Other Essexes retains straight flight deck, of them three converted later to LPH, some or all straight decks (the LPHs?) with FRAM II benefits, and other two dont reactivated post war. The LPH conversion losed four boilers, power fall from 150000 shp to 75000, and máximum speed from 33 to 25 knots. Just so we're on the same page, are you proposing these as two new entries?
February 9, 201412 yr Just returned from a short trip the last four days. I'm not sure about new entries, in a few days I hope to end a table about the Essexes and perhaps the ideas will be more clear
February 18, 201412 yr Only as curious data, here the ESM equipment of the RAF's RB-29 Washingtons, as is American equipement, probably the same in the US variants: http://www.spyflight.co.uk/wash.htm
February 19, 201412 yr Author Only as curious data, here the ESM equipment of the RAF's RB-29 Washingtons, as is American equipement, probably the same in the US variants: http://www.spyflight.co.uk/wash.htm I've wondered about the same, but as Spyflight is saying that CSE "developed" an ELINT fit for the aircraft, I am left still wondering.
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