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Flight sim "pilots"? Flying?
Just messing with you.
Isn't that like fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"
Or had his internet taken away for embaressing his parent's efforts at raising a child...Haven't seen the kid for ages. Probably grown up, I guess.
I think there are more mistakes there. For instance... I-16 Rata. To be honst the Polikarpov I-16 didn't have an official name. The name Rata was given to the plane by Spanish Nationalists while the Spanish Republicans were calling it Mosca. In the USSR the kite was named Ишачок - Donkey . The Finnish nickname for I-16 was Siipiorava - Flying Squirrel. Japanese pilots called it Abu and the Germens at the beginning of the Великой Отечественной войны - Flieger im Dienst. So.. calling it with the name Rata only is a kind of mistake methinks.
As far as the site goes, BasilBarfly, it's a nice effort.
I didn't get a chance to take a long look, but I did notice a few things that would need to be addressed.
In the Luftwaffe section, there is no mention of the MTO, which was a very critical theater for the Luftwaffe. Also in the Luftwaffe section, the Balkan Crosses had more variations (roughly 13 variations), such as a thin white outline, a thick white outline, a "gray" or subdued outline. There was also the black cross with a black outline among other styles. You'll also find that the Swastika icon for the horizontal stabilizer (rudder) also had several versions beyond what's represented (about 7 versions total).
The same applies for the USAAF insignia (there's at least 6 variants in all), like the star/blue background having a gold outline (North Africa, operation torch), the star/blue background with white tabs and red outline (red outline, summer '43) and so on...
Thanks, you are correct, it was the Spanish Nationalists that called it 'Rata'. I would like to use your provided information to correct my website,if thats ok with you?
Basil
No problemo. Also please check the thread because there is something incorrect with the Red Stars methinks.
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/ai...ussian-aircraft-markings-camouflage-9319.html
and here..
table of colors
Hi Basil, interesting information and great idea; I wish you the best with this. Just a few minor points worth mentioning.
The Lancaster: the idea of a four engined Merlin powered Manchester was actually thought of by Chadwick before the Manchester went into production. One of the problems with the Vulture - before the issues it suffered arose was that in 1937 it was thought that there wouldn't be enough of them to go round and this is one reason why Handley Page went with fitting four Merlins to its HP.56 proposal, which was offered to P.13/36 and awarded a production order alongside the Avro 679. The result was the renamed HP.57 Halifax. What is often overlooked with regards to the Manchester and Lancaster was that the Lanc had exactly the same fuselage, just strengthened to take the bigger wing. Also, the last Lancasters serving in a military role were not Canadian ones, but French; the Aeronavale operated maritime patrol Lancaster VIIs out of Tahiti and Noumea in the Pacific into the late 1960s. On retirement, a few of these went to museums in New Zealand, Australia and the UK - Just Jane, the Panton Brothers' Lanc at East Kirkby, Lincs is a former Aeronavale Lanc.
The Wellington's methond of construction was geodetic, not geodesic. Blenheims were not fitted with a power operated turret; it was manually operated. Blenheims were also used by Coastal Command. It is also interesting to note that the only surviving Bristol built Blenheims are extant in Finland.
I've only skimmed through a few pages and I hope you see these as constructive suggestions. Nevertheless, like I said earlier, great work and great idea.