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Hi, can you please define 'stable', do you mean it crashes to desktop or something else ?

Regarding the cylinders I guess this was simply overlooked by our modellers.

If your not happy with the purchase I can authorise a refund if you so desire.

Cazzie said:
Got mine, flys nice, but the Hellkitty isn't the stable platform the T-Bolt is.

One thing is "big" wrong though realflight, The R-2800 shows only 14 cylinders in the sim (two banks of seven cylinders). It should have two banks of nine cylinders to be correct. Small pickings, but on a payware airplane, one best have their specs in order. Doing and judging model airplanes make me a nit-picker.

Caz
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Bought it the other day and just flew it this morning. Beautiful model, flies so nicely that I wish we had a combat sim to put it in!

It wasn't necessarily overpriced at the original price. But it was over my personal limit. Hopefully the sale will do really well for you guys.
 
realflight said:
Hi, can you please define 'stable', do you mean it crashes to desktop or something else ?

Regarding the cylinders I guess this was simply overlooked by our modellers.

If your not happy with the purchase I can authorise a refund if you so desire.
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Strictly speaking in the aeronautical vernacular, no crashes or anything, it's just that the T-bolt is an easier airplane to fly, not as twitchy as the Hellcat. Then again, the Hellcat is a better handling airplane, it rolls quicker, turns quicker, and climbs quicker than the T-bolt. But don't try to dive or outrun a T-bolt in a Hellcat.

No it is an excellent flight model, missing only the two extra cylinders per bank. The is a little too much sheen to the finish for my taste, but that is subjective and one can correct this with a little less alpha on the main and spec textures.

Caz
 
realflight said:
Hi Spittle, can you show me the context in which it was written please.
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I can't find it now, I was on your site and it was the last bullet of a list of features for the aircraft. It said something about an expansion coming soon???? Perhaps I was confused or browsing a different plane while I was looking at your products. So I take it no expansion is in the works then?

Do the planes react to being shot by other planes in Multiplayer?

EDIT:

Actually I just watched the Promo video again and at the end of it when it list the features it says:

" An Expansion Pack is planed, Details to be released shortly. "

It has been a short amount of time since I watched the video so.......... ???
 
The expansion the vid was referring to was an addon in the Solomons, However after researching was complete.. another publisher was releasing screens of their own work in progress so I just dismissed the idea on the spot and no further work was carried out on it.

Its funny as I've not seen anything posted since from the developer about the project.. which has indeed angered me.. if they wouldnt have jumped in with both guns blazing then our solomon project would have been completed now.

We don't have the time or man power as the team is working on the Bearcat.
 
Do to the current climate, I've decided to reduce the Hellcat to $27.99 with imediate effect which will remain so making the hellct more affordable to all simmers regardless of their financial background.

I'm hoping this will indeed set a trend for other publishers by making their own products more affordable to the whole community.
 
Regarding the paint finish , the shine is not part of the alpha channels, I didn't use the alpha channels on this aircraft except for glass.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
The shine was part of the original paint schemes attempt to be as " shiny as a new Porsche " as these were supposed to have been,
the shine is part of the Material settings and can’t be undone using the paint kit .<o:p></o:p>
 
Chuck_Jodry-VJPL said:
Regarding the paint finish , the shine is not part of the alpha channels, I didn't use the alpha channels on this aircraft except for glass.<o:p></o:p>
The shine was part of the original paint schemes attempt to be as " shiny as a new Porsche " as these were supposed to have been,
the shine is part of the Material settings and can’t be undone using the paint kit .<o:p></o:p>
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Thanks Chuck, understand.
 
Chuck_Jodry-VJPL said:
Regarding the paint finish , the shine is not part of the alpha channels, I didn't use the alpha channels on this aircraft except for glass.<o:p></o:p>
The shine was part of the original paint schemes attempt to be as " shiny as a new Porsche " as these were supposed to have been,
the shine is part of the Material settings and can’t be undone using the paint kit .<o:p></o:p>
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Thank you Chuck, I better understand now why whatever the color I put in the specular texture, the Hellcat was still shiny. :)
Anyway even if the French Hellcat never shined so much (coming from US Navy "surplus"), this model is really amazing!!
Thank you again,
Regards,
Sylvain
 
:friday:

It is a fantastic Bird, John Wayne coms to mind everytime I fly her !! :woot:

A solomon add-on would have been super fun --

Look forward to your bearcat --

Many Cheers !!
 
Well, I've playing around with my Hellcat, and I like it a lot!
I agree with Caz, it feels very twitchy compared to the P-47 (and a lot of other aircraft), but that's not a bad thing for a fighter. I'm wondering about the sound though, at full throttle, it makes (a lot) less noise than at half that. Is that right?
As for the sheen, sometimes it feels a bit too much (the Gladiator suffered from this this too, only more so), but in other times it's beautiful, look at that wing shot.
One final point, it started spewing white smoke all of a sudden, while descending to the airfield. Why the smoke, what did I do wrong? and why so white, it was dusk after all?
I'm travelling a lot over the next two months, so don't expect any repaints soon, but it will happen, I just ordered a book on Dutch Hellcat pilots...
 
Monitor your cylinder head temp, try and keep it below 90, to reduce overheating use the prop pitch
 
RealFlight's right jankees, back off on the prop rpm and throttle rpm. At 10,000-ft or above set your fuel on auto-mix and throttle both prop and throllem to cruise range and trim to neutral. It should be noted that water injection was raely if ever used by Hellcat pilots during WW II. Helldiver could perhaps add to my opines. I'm just an old aviation histort nert, HD was there.

Other than the snitch about the number of cylinders RF, it's a gem. Please see that the developers correct that for the Bearcat, which was perhaps my favorites of all the Grumman Ironworks prop fighters.

I notice none of the "Minski"s were done, got the repaint kit, may have to get that sorted. :ernae:

Caz
 
hmm very odd indeed, the price has indeed been dropped from 34$ to 27.99$ and will remain so.
 
I'm getting a "connecting to server error" when I try to install it. Dropped a note off to the support address. Maybe a server is unavailable?
 
Hi Odie, I think our installation support team are already working with you on this problem.
 
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