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Originally Posted by Wutz
True, because some feel everyone must fly bombers as they wish, or not at all, and there are enough "Fan boys" that welcome that, as harder must be more real...
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Indeed Wutz, part of the IL2 community shows signs to switching from the rather truthful flight sim to a common fancy computer game with imaginary rules they can change by their own liking.
However, historical facts still remain facts. Bombers were armed with fuses and bombs that suited best for each mission. Throughout the war, means of hitting enemy were constantly improved to be
easier rather than
more difficult - that is quite selfevident, isn't it..?
Ignoring history is of course allowed, but doing so may make people behind such unrealistic mods appear rather restricted or even ignorant.
A JU-88 Veteran About Bomb Fuses
In a recent
history gathering I met Mr.
Kusti Lehmusvuori. In spite of being almost 90 he was in very brisk shape with lucid mind and memories. He served as a bomber radio operator and gunner for some 55 war flights in Finnish
Blenheim and
JU-88 crews.
He described the
electrical fuse circuit of German JU-88 bombs quite as I had earlier heard about it and written to the
message above. He also added that the bomb fuse capacitors were charged from onboard batteries that resembled the anode batteries of the radios of those days. Bombs were of course launched
one by one and not as pairs like with IL2 sim.
We also discussed about airplane radio operator work of those days with the rather unreliable
Marconi radios of Blenheims and the advanced
FUG 10 radio gear of JU-88 that he descrobed as being 'from another planet' as compared to earlier radios. When asked, he even remembered accurately the '
Gibson Girl' emergency transmitter placement onboard..! However, I guess further writing about early aircraft radio operation and navigation practises might be a bit off topic in this thread so I save that info for later discussions.
Regards,
- J. Hartikka -
History Addict
Finland
Original wartime photos on messages:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...d=1#post210220 and
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...782#post213782 and
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...588#post216588
Bomber veteran Kusti Lehmusvuori in a newspaper article with photos of the restored motor of the ill fated JU-88 nr JK-254:
http://yle.fi/alueet/pohjois-karjala...tml?origin=rss