Unofficial plane list.

[The_Goalie_94]

I only need a LANCASTER...then i will buy this game FOR SURE!!!!

[Swagger7]

Isn't it possible that both the P51A and the P51D are in the game? Perhaps they needed both of them for the campaign modes? Also, I'm missing the P-38 & P-40 Didn't Anton specifically say that the P-38 wasn't in the game? A Hawker Tempest would be neat as well. OH well, hopefully there will be a bunch of DLC planes!

[David603]

Originally Posted by Swagger7

Isn't it possible that both the P51A and the P51D are in the game? Perhaps they needed both of them for the campaign modes? Also, I'm missing the P-38 & P-40 Didn't Anton specifically say that the P-38 wasn't in the game? A Hawker Tempest would be neat as well. OH well, hopefully there will be a bunch of DLC planes!

Both the P51A and P51D are ingame, but you are right in that the P38 has been confirmed absent, and I haven't seen a P40 or Tempest either.

[haitch40]

tempest was nice but id like a spit mkV my favourite spitfire

[Tally-Ho]

I would pay for DLC if it included the Mosquito and Stringbag.

[cydno]

Originally Posted by haitch40

tempest was nice but id like a spit mkV my favourite spitfire

I think I saw one in a trailer (the one with shorter wings)... This version of the spitfire was called by some of the RAF pilots as "clipped", "clapped" and "cropped" and was definitively not the pilot's choice.

[haitch40]

Originally Posted by cydno

I think I saw one in a trailer (the one with shorter wings)... This version of the spitfire was called by some of the RAF pilots as "clipped", "clapped" and "cropped" and was definitively not the pilot's choice.

r u talking bout the spitfire with flat wing tips? thats a spitfire IX

[David603]

Originally Posted by cydno

I think I saw one in a trailer (the one with shorter wings)... This version of the spitfire was called by some of the RAF pilots as "clipped", "clapped" and "cropped" and was definitively not the pilot's choice.

The only Spitfires we know about in game are the IIb, the IXc and the XVIe. The IIb is the one in the demo, the IXc is the version with a pointed tail and the XVIe has the bubble canopy. I think the IX and XVI have an option for the wing type because I have see the IX with and without clipped tips.

[mondo]

Originally Posted by cydno

I think I saw one in a trailer (the one with shorter wings)... This version of the spitfire was called by some of the RAF pilots as "clipped", "clapped" and "cropped" and was definitively not the pilot's choice.

That refers to the MkVB when they were still in service in 1944 and were all approaching the end of both the airframe lives and engine lives i.e. clapped.

They had Merlin 45M with a cropped (the cropped bit )supercharger and a higher boost/octane fuel an to give them more power at lower altitudes so they could be used in the 2nd TAF. The lack of wing tips was to give a better roll rate at lower altitudes (clipped).

It was very much the pilots choice in 1941 but by 1944 it was scraping the barrel. Although they were just as good performers as the Spit IX at very low altitude where the 2nd TAF operated most of its aircraft. They only had 60 round drums for the Hispano MkII though.

[cydno]

Originally Posted by mondo

That refers to the MkVB when they were still in service in 1944 and were all approaching the end of both the airframe lives and engine lives i.e. clapped.

They had Merlin 45M with a cropped (the cropped bit )supercharger and a higher boost/octane fuel an to give them more power at lower altitudes so they could be used in the 2nd TAF. The lack of wing tips was to give a better roll rate at lower altitudes (clipped).

It was very much the pilots choice in 1941 but by 1944 it was scraping the barrel. Although they were just as good performers as the Spit IX at very low altitude where the 2nd TAF operated most of its aircraft. They only had 60 round drums for the Hispano MkII though.

Good and interesting speech mondo...
You are of course right in all this and I said this was not the pilots choice because of differents sets of RAF pilots memories from 1943 to 1945 that I have read.