Recent content by tonycat77

Don't forget variable valve timing!

Lmao, you better off not knowing those references my man, lmao

As they say, ignorance is bliss...

Look, unless you claim that some anime character is your actual wife and you married her, you're pretty safe from being a target.

I find myself increasingly frustrated with the state of the internet, where consolidation is on the rise, and there's a growing desire to limit rights related to issues like "hate speech," "terrorism," and "child abuse." To illustrate this point, I'd like to share the story of Kiwi Farms, as...

Let's say you're argentina or a democractic non aligned hungary or Romania in the 1930s, which plane, politics and contracts aside would serve as the best? I'd say the best choices are the Spitfire and Bf-109. He-112, Hurricane and P-36s as distant second places.

i'd suggest any transport to use as much steel and wood as possible to free up resources for frontline aircraft. Also use Jumo-211s, Other threads here showed they still had thousands of them in crates up to 1945.

Russian tank engines develop around 1200hp-1500 using a crankshaft derived from t-34's (and ww1 bmws!) that originally had 500hp. Tank engines are also highly detuned due to the much larger stress and torque needed. Assuming a 3x factor, we would get early turbojet class power out of a modern...

Honest, have you thought about giving that data to some developers? They would pay big cash for it. Get some NACA files on 1946 captured aircraft and you'd be sitting in liquid gold.

Both top dog sims canned their Pacific campaign expansions due to a lack of flight data on japanese aircraft, they would be paying top dollar for that... Also several DCS modules were made with either pilot or even in the case of the JF-17 a partnership agreement with the manufacturer.

To be fair that was more of a logistical war, Allies would've won with P-39s and Hawker hurricanes alone. You can get a idea of thing, There are now famous sim drivers competing in real life events: https://boxthislap.org/sim-racers-who-have-jumped-from-sim-rig-to-the-real-world/

Even so, i don't think you need that much accuracy to at least get a feel for the thing, also modern flight sims are resource hogs, you need a very fast cpu to run something like DCS or IL-2 Cliffs of Dover or Battle of stalingrad. Sure you can't get a flight license on sims alone, but they are...

I see, i guess the best option would to develop something similar to a ki-49/ki-67/p1y1 ginga then. DB-603 got canned before ww2, i wonder what would've happened if it got prioritized instead, also the 213 first ran in 1940, but only entered production by late 43, i think we could had saved a...

I think you can try and get a earlier ju-188/JU-88S, add the wooden bomb pannier and remove that horrible draggy lower gunner I think you could shave off a lot of weight by removing the dive bombing strengthening, they welded shut the dive brakes anyway when they received from the factory...

I know I know, sims aren't reality, but at least they have some aerodynamic modelling. With that said, I don't really like to fly the P-51, it's usually starts with drop tanks and flying slow and above the b-17s or b-29s you're supposed to be escorting. If you try to pull hard on it, the wing...