• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Barracuda: Big fish from Fairey

WarHorse47 said:
Yes, beautiful.

How much weight do you add for the bomb racks?? Anybody know??
Click to expand...

It's in the cfg:

Code: 
station_load.0 =       0,      0.0,   10.48,      0.5,    "500lb_bomb1" // (500)      
station_load.1 =       0,      0.0,     8.28,      0.3,    "500lb_bomb2" // (500) 
station_load.2 =       0,      0.0,    -8.28,      0.3,    "500lb_bomb3" // (500) 
station_load.3 =       0,      0.0,  -10.48,      0.5,    "500lb_bomb4" // (500) 
station_load.5 =       0,      0.0,     9.38,      1.0,    "bombrack"       // (20) 
station_load.6 =       0,      0.0,    -9.38,      1.0,    "bombrack_R"   // (20)
station_load.4 = 1500,        0,         0 ,   -3.55,    "torpedo1"         // (1500)
station_load.7 =       0,        0,         0 ,   -3.51,    "AN-Mk1"          // (1600)
 
Looks like a later mark, the originals had the exhaust recessed in the nose fairing IIRC - an odd idea. Good to see Rob hasn't lost his touch with the move to Blender.
 
hairyspin said:
Looks like a later mark, the originals had the exhaust recessed in the nose fairing IIRC - an odd idea. Good to see Rob hasn't lost his touch with the move to Blender.
Click to expand...
Your quite right Tom.
The early models had a recessed exhaust but the main production batch of Mkll's had the Spitfire type.
A number of alternative setups were tried.


RobR
 
Beautiful plane! I admittedly never heard of this plane till I bought the latest DLC (Burma Road) for Order Of Battle WWII and the Barracuda features prominently as the British close air support bird during that conflict. Interesting history and love seeing developers making the less famous or more obscure warbirds. Thank you Richard.
 
The designers at Fairy (and all manufacturers who designed aircraft for the Royal Navy) were hampered by a multitude of obsolete Admiralty 'requirements'.
Technically (IIRC) the Fleet Air Arm had a deal of Royal Air Force oversight but they were rather busy in other areas.
The 'Barra' suffered from the same strictures as those that gave us 'unfortunate' designs such as the Short Sturgeon, Blackburn's appalling Firebrand and the Westland Wyvern, to name a few.
Nice rendition of the Barracuda Rob.
:encouragement:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top