OT: new World of Planes screenshots

[winny]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

urmmm winny??? I think its pretty clear that you can't see that guys hands. But I agree with what you wrote. This could be true about the spitfire and other lighter fighters

but I was originally talking about the P-38. I watched an episode of Showdown-Air combat about Richard Bong and the P-38 driver every time he was shown flying had both hands on the yoke.

You can tell that his right arm is forwards and his left isn't from his shoulders. He also waves at one point, and his arm comes from the side not in front.

P-38 was a big Aircraft, maybe heavier..?

Also, the reason British Aircraft had a spade grip was so that they could use 2 hands, so it was obviously thought that 2 hands may be needed at times.

I still don't think you'd sacrifice a such an important control as the throttle unless you had to. To be not on the throttle in combat would be dangerous, getting from stick to throtle under high G can't be easy and, there's a delay.

Also if you're using 2 hands because it's heavy then when you let go, to go to the throttle, you're gonna invoulantarliy lose control, like I already said, it makes no tactical, or physical sense to believe that, as you said, "warbird pilots mostly flew hands on stick, especialy in combat."