Razorback Sneak Peak Video

[Lewis - A2A]

Happy New Year Everyone!

P-47 RazorBack WIP video showing just some of the new features;

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1pRSuC7 ... annel_page
(Once the YouTube video comes up, click on Watch in HD, then the FULL SCREEN icon)




And of course a few screenies,







This aircraft so far has really made me realise how hard it is to fly these high performance aircraft for hours at a time without the worry of anyone shooting at me! Ive yet to get the '47 up to bomber altitude for escort in a timely manner without damaging the engine. How the real lads did this and then fly on for 6+ hours is beyond me, amazing stuff.

[Scott - A2A]

Lewis,

These early P47's you could not perform high power climbs without leveling off and opening cowl flaps to cool the engines. However, you should have no issue with just a standard climb as long as you keep reasonable speed to keep adequate air flowing through the engine. Also, you can keep cowl flaps wide opened on climb too if you need. I think the next video may want to be a startup and climb out.

Scott.

[Lewis - A2A]

Yes, the instructional type vids for the 377 helped many and would no doubt help with the p47. I was wrongly applying some of the same rules re: the 377 to the P47.

Ive no problem getting up its just that by the time I was up the Bombers would have got bored and started enroute to Europe meaning i'd be struggling to catch them. The appreciation comes from all the added realism. Having flown our fighters without Accu-sim for so long I geuss I have picked up lots of bad habits that with Accu-sim of course mean bad things will happen!

I wouldn't like getting my ass chewed up by the CO because I had damaged the engine on my first mission!

[Villicus]

Man I really liked the sound of metal flying when you fubared the supercharger!

[GOZR]

I'm looking for valkyrie321 ... anyone? it's about the P47
Thank you.

[CodyValkyrie]

Yup, that's me. Send me a PM.

[Skycat]

Hmmm, after carefully comparing the above cockpit screenshot to the in-game WWII Fighters P-47 (w FSX upgrades) I see a few changes have been made:

1. Gunsight reticle added, obviously, but also there is a dive speed (?) placard in the space under the gunsight.

2. Electric propeller control switches are removed from the box above the throttle quadrant which seems technically correct if not aesthetically perfect. (It appears this control was found on the top left corner of the main switch box of early razorbacks, when these planes were equipped with the Curtiss Electric propeller. In bubbletops, electric propeller controls were located as a separate box above the throttle quadrant. Thunderbolts equipped with Hamilton Standard hydraulic propellers -- including the P-47D-22 RE, the only Razorback with the Hamilton Standard prop AFAIK -- would only have had a propeller lever on the throttle quadrant.)

3. Recognition light switches are now located below the primer handle instead of on the cockpit wall. This is an interesting design change that I can't verify as correct for Razorbacks but it does seem accurate for later bubbletop P-47Ds.

4. Small 3D changes around the oxygen regulator: more hoses?

5. The parking brake handle now has an instruction placard mounted above it; it looks like the 3D of that whole area has been improved. An interesting observation is that the compass appears to be a little higher than its original position; at the very least, it is no longer inline with the hydraulic pressure guage and clock that bracket it. This positioning looks correct compared to relevant vintage PFOIs. Nicely done!

6. Something has changed on the label around what is/was the starter switch. Looks like it now has two positions ... 'Energize' and 'Engage' perhaps?

7. The Avionics Switch (top right of panel) looks like it has been turned into a bulb of some kind, probably a fuel pressure warning light?

8. White stripes are now added to box in the main guages. I can only find pictorial evidence of these markings on late war production Thunderbolts, specifically the P-47N in vintage manuals and a P-47D-30 in museum photographs. I have yet to see these markings in any razorback manuals or cockpit photos. I suppose these could have been added to razorback P-47 panels as a late war/ post war upgrade but I'm kind of thinking that would have been the exception instead of the rule. No big deal though, ultimately the A2A P-47D v3 will exist in the modern world FSX simulates, not circa 1944.

Speaking of 3D changes, any chance that the throttle lever will be resculpted to its vintage shape?

[Scott - A2A]

Well I think it is fair to say you like the P47. It's impressive all the detail you pulled out of the video.

I do not think we will have two separate throttle quadrants for release. The one we have now has ADI activated 1/8" from full throttle, and has a master ADI switch as well.

The entire aircaft has been rebuilt - both the looks and the function.

Scott.

[JJB17463rdBombGroup]

Scott before you release this could you consider contacting Bill Yowell and JanKees in this thread.
Notice JanKees repaint of Bill Yowell's brother (Jack) Yowell, John Jasper Jr's P-47
I think that it would be nice to have this aircraft in the new upcoming WOP III Thunderbolt.
Is there some way this could be included? You could also credit both of them too.
http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtop ... 18&t=12758

[Codeseven]

Scott before you release this could you consider contacting Bill Yowell and JanKees in this thread.
Notice JanKees repaint of Bill Yowell's brother (Jack) Yowell, John Jasper Jr's P-47
I think that it would be nice to have this aircraft in the new upcoming WOP III Thunderbolt.
Is there some way this could be included? You could also credit both of them too.
http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtop ... 18&t=12758

Thanks for making the suggestion to honor Jack Yowell, that would really be great! Also, I enjoyed the video of your Father and have alot of respect for his service to this country.

Scott or Lewis, not meaning to rush things, but being a huge fan of the P-47, is there an expected release date for the much anticipated Razorback? Thanks


Codeseven

[rc flyer]

Man, it just keeps gettin' better and better with you guys
The 377 such a joy to fly, so immersive, and now I see this
The Jug is one of my all time favorite warbirds. I fly RC (as you might deduce by my username) and have owned many WWII vintage models. I'm currently flying a razorback P-47 with operating flaps and it is a sweet and very predictable flyer. Anyway, to get back on subject, I have a quick question. Will Acceleration be required for the supercharger or will it be handled like the 377 if you only have SP2?

Steve

[Stuntie]

....
Ive no problem getting up its just that by the time I was up the Bombers would have got bored and started enroute to Europe meaning i'd be struggling to catch them. ...

Clatch them on the way back and claim to the return escort.

[ROB - A2A]

Man, it just keeps gettin' better and better with you guys
The 377 such a joy to fly, so immersive, and now I see this
The Jug is one of my all time favorite warbirds. I fly RC (as you might deduce by my username) and have owned many WWII vintage models. I'm currently flying a razorback P-47 with operating flaps and it is a sweet and very predictable flyer. Anyway, to get back on subject, I have a quick question. Will Acceleration be required for the supercharger or will it be handled like the 377 if you only have SP2?

Steve

We've managed to find a solution for the "Acceleration - SP2" differences and the final statement is:

Acceleration is NOT required. The aircraft is the SAME and FULLY functional on BOTH systems.

regards
ROB

[ICDP]

Scott before you release this could you consider contacting Bill Yowell and JanKees in this thread.
Notice JanKees repaint of Bill Yowell's brother (Jack) Yowell, John Jasper Jr's P-47
I think that it would be nice to have this aircraft in the new upcoming WOP III Thunderbolt.
Is there some way this could be included? You could also credit both of them too.
http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtop ... 18&t=12758

I read that thread with great interest and it spurned me to do the P-47D Razorback of Jerry Wurmser. Unfortunately I can't do Jack Yowells aircraft as it is a bubbletop.

I don't think Scott or Lewis would mind me posting a single screenshot of my rendition of Jerry's razorback.