[Hunin]

Check your PMs mate.

[Guest]

hey please everyone remember that wolf has played his part it helping with this mod - without his cockpit modding skills it would have been real painful for me hock: - so a big ty to wolf on this project

[Metatron]

Just great man. I'm very happy about this.

To give some insight on it's operational use:

Gefr Ernst Schroeder, pilot, II.Sturm/JG300:

'' My staffel kapitan and I had had a test gyro sight installed in our aircraft. With the aid of this sighting mechanism I was able to down two B-24s within seconds. The [first] aircraft turned on it's side and plunged. Also, the neighbouring machine was already smoking from a previous attack. Both left engines were burning. I only needed to change aim to shoot again. Then this one stood in bright flames. The new aiming device was functioning astonishingly. I was so surprised and fascinated that I flew alongside my victim and stared at the metro-high flames which were pouring out of this Liberator all the way back beyond the elevator. Then this great machine clumsily laid itself on it's back and went down...''

Schroeder flew Fw-190 A-8 Red 19 ''Kolle-alaaf''

From Boiten and Bowman's ''Battles with the Luftwaffe''.

[Willy]

Way to go MrJolly & wolf :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[Metatron]

I hate to say this guys... But I was just looking at the way the gunsight was rotated and it was probably right in the first place.hock: The reason being there should be two horizontal dots to correspond to the enemy aircraft's wingspan... :?

[Hunin]

Good pics.

What do we do about the fixed ( static ) reticle?
An enhanced version of the existing Ta 183 reticle or a new one based on the graphic?

[Metatron]

I'd stay to stick with the existing one...

[Sturmbock]

[Guest]

yes i thought it was odd that it needed rotating - i think you are correct in saying the diamonds should be on the wing tips - so i need to put the sight back again lol

[Sturmbock]

About Ta 152C and EZ 42:

Two Fw 190D prototypes were modified with DB603L engines as the Fw 190V20/U1 and Fw 190V21/U1; the V20 was destroyed in an air raid on August 5, 1944. The V21 first flew on November 3, 1944, powered by a DB603E. In the meantime, three Ta 152C development aircraft, the V6, V7 and V8, were under construction, with plans to power them with the DB603L.

The Ta 152V6, powered by a DB603LA engine, was otherwise similar to the Fw 190V21, and made its first flight on December 17, 1944, flown by Hans Sander. The Ta 152V7 was similar, with the addition of the R-11 all-weather kit, thus representing what would be the Ta 152C-0/R11. This aircraft first flew January 27, 1945, again at the hands of Hans Sander. The Ta 152V8, with incorporated the new Revi EZ 42 gyro gunsight, was the development prototype of the Ta 152C-1, and flew on January 14, 1945.


I think the EZ 42 should be restricted to:

[Hunin]

I'd exclude the A8 from that list.
The vast majority didn't have them.
Otherwise I agree.

So the complete list would look like:

Do 335B (V13), 1944
Fw 190D-9, 1945
Ta 152C, 1945
Ta 183, 1946
He 162C,1946
He162D, 1946
He Lerche, 1946
Me 262A-1a. 1944
Me 262A-1/U4, 1945
Me 262HGII, 1946

[Guest]

here is an update
shows the proper normal reticle + the gyro reticle displayed together
you can of course have either one selected

[Hunin]

Wonderfull.

[Sturmbock]

[Metatron]

Kool. 8)