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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

 
 
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Old 08-28-2011, 07:04 AM
Rickusty Rickusty is offline
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Our pilots really were a brave lot, having to fight for 4 years of war with mostly obsolete fighters against such a foe as the RAF.
We had a great aviation during the spanish civil war. Our main problem was the lack of a good national liquid cooled V-12 high-powered engine
for our fighters. Our fighters had to rely on a low powered Fiat radial engine for most of the war.
I remember reading once that Ing.Mario Casoldi, the "father" of the C.20x series and the man who created the fastest ever sea-plane , the MC-72, once said that Fiat created their engines in "mule-power" instead of "horse-power"...

IIRC Fiat just didn't want to produce the C.202, arguing that the plane was "too complicated" and that it required too many hours for a single specimen to be completed. Which in fact was quite correct, but Macchi airplanes were in general great machines, and it's a shame that so few were produced.

This is the "G.50 problems" thread, if anyone wants to have a look btw.

I just hope we will have the opportunity to fly the Falco for simply four reasons:

1) It really was an amazing biplane fighter and quite aggressive looking as well, which isn't a bad thing
It was a well designed fighter plane, loved by its pilots (who in turn, loathed the G.50...)
2) At least we will have maneuverability on our side against the RAF and speed was almost the same as the G.50 so...
3) It actually was the only fighter type that saw actions in the BoB
4) We could create some cool Glad/Falco fights





Cheers
Rick

Last edited by Rickusty; 08-28-2011 at 07:24 AM.
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