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Fantastic update - more living breathing aircraft from A2A - excellence in the extreme. Great job by the team.

The war-time P-51's weren't as highly polished as the ones people fly for fun now, and the metal was a dull color. Its just like the A2A B-17's, just left bare but unpolished.

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Pure excellence, nothing less, can't wait to immerse myself again , how about a little update on spitfire bu..., i meant problems.

that looks finished to me, come on, bring it on!

and no shine please, I like my birds old and dirty..

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Excellent! I really enjoy watching these development videos

Greetings
Tim

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In this particular livery the wings are painted gray. The fuselage is (mostly) bare metal.

regards
ROB

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Oh, ok this explains it very well.
can't wait for the P-51

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"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

You guys really amaze me: fantastic attention to detail; thank you so much.

Glad to see that the P-40 may come with a Soviet Air Force livery; that would be fun.

Excellent update news!! You guys @ A2A are amazing!!

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Jim B.
R/W C172N Pilot
SWVA Captain, NorCal Hub

The only word that can come out of my mouth after watching this is AMAZING!!!!!!!

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Владимир Левков/Vladimir Levkov

Aviation is proof that,given the will,we have the capacity to achieve the impossible

You know you've been an A2A customer for a while when you notice how big Capt. Jakey is getting! Great work guys, can't wait to get y hands on all of 'em!

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Buddy Morgan



i5 2500k - Asus P8P67 Pro - G.Skill Ripjaw 8GB - EVGA GTX 570 Fermi

Scott,

I think you guys might have an animation problem on the P-40. When you say you are pushing the hydraulic "button", I'm pretty sure that is the trigger for the guns. What -should- be animated is the hydraulic "toggle switch" which is the thing that looks like a bicycle brake. The pilot would operate it with his pinky and his ring finger. I've watched the video in question and I think it depicts that. Also, the training manual by Periscope Film LLC, page 25, shows that as well. No "thumb action" involved there.

DISCLAIMER: If I'm wrong about that, then I'm wrong, but you might want to double check because I would have sworn that was how it worked in one of the online training films.

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The operation of the flaps, while on the ground in the P-51 that you demonstrated, got me thinking: Do you model Flap Droop and Flap Creep on the P-40?
I think if you put the flap handle in the down position while on the ground that the flaps should droop on their own when the system is not pressurized, on the P-40). Also, a checklist for the p-40 found at http://www.aerofiles.com/checklist-p40.htmlsays "Note: return landing gear and flap control levers to neutral after completion. The flaps will creep up if selector is not in neutral (positive lock)."

(okay, its back to Skyrim for BigJuicySpider )

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There are two options and both are correct: the button on the top of the stick or the toggle switch in front of the stick. We decided to choose the button as it is visible. The toggle switch in front of the grip will be removed in the final version.

regards
ROB

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Close, the top button on American fighters is usually either the radio transmit button or bomb/weapon release. The trigger on the front of the stick (the red one) is the gun trigger. As they said here, the early P-40's with the "on demand" hydraulic system had the button on the top or on the pinky.

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?????. Nice work with modeling the hydraulic system(s). I hope it'd eventually end up in Spitfire MkI and MKII pneumatics so that it won't self-recharge after engine is shut down.

There's a video to audio desynch with the cowl flaps. It could of course be from video capture and editing phase. Or just video being delayed due to CPU's limit in processing. You can clearly hear the cowls bang close when they're still on the "open 1/4" marker (or whatever you'd call it). Video is delayed, thus audio comes before it's proper timing.

On the other hand, there's another sound that gets produced when you complete the move by releasing the mouse button... if you move the radiator flaps, stop, and keep it still, releasing the mouse button still produces a noise (not a loud bang, though) even if the lever wasn't moved while mouse button is released. This time audio is delayed. The audio would need to be played when movement of mouse pointer is stopped, not when button is released. This might be a bit more difficult to fix than the bang when radiator is completely shut but I think it was done properly in the Cub: varying pitches dependent on how fast the control stick is moved. And especially the rudder pedals...

It's still beta so I'm pretty confident the first public release will be outstanding and have the timing and sound sampling fine tuned. Hydraulic sounds seem to be tuned to perfection already: you can hear the load on hydraulic pump as pressure approaches target pressure: remains constant when gears retract, losing rpm steadily after surplus pressure is created after they're locked in position. Very nice indeed that you can actually hear whether your pump is pumping without load, with load, or air bubbles within the system. Give some extra hint of when you have a problem and what type of problem you have.

I'm quite certain this will be one marvelous accusim aircraft and from the number of systems modeled, it's going to be a handful and rewarding thing to fly... once mastered. No battling against temps, though. Not this time. A refreshing change of pace in every aspect. Same goes with P-51... and even more so with F4 Phantom II. Though the last time we heard of that one was when it was still having engine testing and modeling in a F-104 airframe... who knows where that project is now. Last mention of it was in "A2A Simulations Development Update Oct 2010", I think.


EDIT: Haha. Word "s3xy" with an "e" gets censored with ?????. No pr0n advertisements on A2A forums.
Let's see how long it takes for that Youtube video to get flagged inappropriate due to s3xually explicit content because it sure is.