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Blackburn Botha
Hi Guys ,
I personally always thought that with a Bristol Pegasus or maybe an early Bristol Hercules ; the Botha could have become a reliable if not a good aircraft .
Next question , why didn't someone think of putting two Rolls-Royce Merlins in a Lockheed Lightning P-38?
Just a question , that will probably always remain unanswered .
Regards to all,
1150
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Please keep up the good work Uncle TGT as most of us morons are in awe of what you accomplish !!!
Hi Guys ,
I personally always thought that with a Bristol Pegasus or maybe an early Bristol Hercules ; the Botha could have become a reliable if not a good aircraft .
Next question , why didn't someone think of putting two Rolls-Royce Merlins in a Lockheed Lightning P-38?
Just a question , that will probably always remain unanswered .
Regards to all,
1150
PS .
Please keep up the good work Uncle TGT as most of us morons are in awe of what you accomplish !!!
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1150,
No need here. With Turbocharged Allisons, the P-38's performance was actually outstanding. Its performance in the Mediterranean and the Pacific proved it. The cold, wet climate of Northwestern Europe, coupled with combat altitudes that Lockheed had not envisioned and improperly-blended British AvGas caused her major problems in the ETO, especially with the intercoolers.
UncleTgt - Do you want me to take a crack at the Botha?
1150,
No need here. With Turbocharged Allisons, the P-38's performance was actually outstanding. Its performance in the Mediterranean and the Pacific proved it. The cold, wet climate of Northwestern Europe, coupled with combat altitudes that Lockheed had not envisioned and improperly-blended British AvGas caused her major problems in the ETO, especially with the intercoolers.
UncleTgt - Do you want me to take a crack at the Botha?
UncleTgt
SOH-CM-2026
Rami,
The original package has separate player & AI airfiles by Peperez, but it's pretty old. If you think you can combine the elements into a single airfile to suit, that would be useful.
Be warned, it has the left hand torque issue like the Whitley, you can't stay on the runway without using the engines, & that makes the take-off run massively long. IMHO it needs similar tweaking of the rudder control in the prop wash whilst sitting on tarmac (section 1101, entries for yaw & maybe side forces).
That said, I'd much rather have a better Anson airfile - 200kts+ in an Anson is hard to believe ...
The original package has separate player & AI airfiles by Peperez, but it's pretty old. If you think you can combine the elements into a single airfile to suit, that would be useful.
Be warned, it has the left hand torque issue like the Whitley, you can't stay on the runway without using the engines, & that makes the take-off run massively long. IMHO it needs similar tweaking of the rudder control in the prop wash whilst sitting on tarmac (section 1101, entries for yaw & maybe side forces).
That said, I'd much rather have a better Anson airfile - 200kts+ in an Anson is hard to believe ...
, an early WIP of a trainer skin...
UncleTgt
SOH-CM-2026
Ian,
My 1943 Botha repaint is based on a single reference for 11 Radio School, there aren't any photos I could find
L6202, 6-20 ? My interpretation of this a/c ident looks like this. Does this coding correct? I know OTU a/c were often double digit numbers, I'm thinking I should drop the "6"...
My 1943 Botha repaint is based on a single reference for 11 Radio School, there aren't any photos I could find
L6202, 6-20 ? My interpretation of this a/c ident looks like this. Does this coding correct? I know OTU a/c were often double digit numbers, I'm thinking I should drop the "6"...
UncleTgt
SOH-CM-2026
Guys I went smaller & tried to keep everything in line...
Ian, hear what you say about the radio school, I'll change the font to make them narrower...
Picked up some interesting snippets from the web. It seems the bomb bay was positioned slightly to port, with a narrow walkway down the stbd side. So, when a torpedo was loaded, it dropped offset to port, & the resulting forces nearly tipping the aircraft over.
No wonder they never used them as torpedo bombers, not even for training.
Also 11 Radio School was used to train operators on ASV & BABS RDF systems, so it probably needs some radar aerials adding to the payload as an option.
Ian, hear what you say about the radio school, I'll change the font to make them narrower...
Picked up some interesting snippets from the web. It seems the bomb bay was positioned slightly to port, with a narrow walkway down the stbd side. So, when a torpedo was loaded, it dropped offset to port, & the resulting forces nearly tipping the aircraft over.
No wonder they never used them as torpedo bombers, not even for training.Also 11 Radio School was used to train operators on ASV & BABS RDF systems, so it probably needs some radar aerials adding to the payload as an option.
From what I recall there was some talk about doing this but Allison put the kibosh on it.