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[ramstein]

Just a note about the Corsair F4U. I was chatting (for a couple hours..) to a Corsair F4U pilot (Korea) who flew them off carriers (about 30 miles off shore). He mostly did ground pounding. Anyways, he was teling me about how much power it took to pull the F4U off the deck of a carrier, and the loadouts it could lift, under what conditions, windspeed, and lots more..

Basically I wanted to say since the pacific aircraft have been included since Forgotten Battles, Pacific Fighters, I really wondered if it was that hard to get a decent load of bombs and fuel off the deck. He told me that unless the carrier was moving fast enough and/or had enough headwind for lift, it was almost impossibe to get the Corsair off the deck without going into the drink/ so it seems it is like in real life lifting off a carrier. Though, it still maybe not as perfect as it could be. Especially since in this sim, if you carrier is sitting still it will not have the lift as in real life.

The WEP power is not mdelled as wel as real lif eeither, he said you could never use 100% power as it was too much and you could not go 100% very long at all when you did.
He told me about straffing and dropping napalm. He also knew Pappy Boyington, and didn't have anything good to say about him at all! I can't repeat what he said..

Lots of info... more info about diving cpeeds, stall speeds, and lotts more. Stall speed was maybe 75mph, because he would strafe about 30 feet off the deck at about 85 mph with combat flap. You could not point the aircraft straight down in a long dive. He started flying at age 12 crop dusting and was accepted into officer training as a pilot at age 17! Of course he did not say it that way he said it was really %%%$$###%$%%% wild that he was only F%$%##g 17!

Lots more, but mostly stories, trying to think of useful info for modeliing the aircraft in this sim. And yes, flak can and does blow the engine completely off a plane! The engines in the 1943 F4U did not have an electric start and it was known that the people who started the engine by pulling the props could lose their arms if the engines spit back and spun backwards.

enough for now..
cya later..