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Damned useful

I've just doubled the size of my VBCW air component with a Gloster Gladiator. State of the art stuff with an enclosed canopy don'tcherno. This monoplane stuff that the Boche are showing off in Spain will never catch on.

You might need more guns for that single head on pass that the Gladiator gets against monoplane bombers.

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 9:31 pm State of the art stuff with an enclosed canopy don'tcherno.

What! No need for a natty scarf thrown at a jaunty angle? Dammit, will no-one think of tradition!?

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 9:31 pm State of the art stuff with an enclosed canopy don'tcherno.

What! No need for a natty scarf thrown at a jaunty angle? Dammit, will no-one think of tradition!?

I was tempted to do a Mk 1 Hurricane with a two bladed prop. I did find out a few odd Hurricane facts. Yugoslavia made some under licence and realised that the coming war might make Merlin engines hard to come by they trialled one with a Daimler Benz engine. The Belgians built three with 4 13.5mm machine guns instead of 8 Brownings.

Do you use planes in your games then ?

The one that always got me was 2 of the german planes were designed to use it as well!

Didn't the first Me109 fly with a Rolls Royce engine?

Not sure, but the 2 junkers were designed with it in mind.

Also remember the Gladiator and the Hurricane were both adopted as stopgap improvements until enough of the Interceptor they wanted were available. The first to give the raf a high altitude interceptor, the second to share some parts with the Fury it was replacing and give them an all round monoplane fighter.