[Davew]

http://www.riseofflight.com/en/index.html Won't be long now....

"Game represents 2 parts of the conflict, namely Germany and the USA."

Why only Germany and USA? Why not France, Britain or Russia?

Due to the small planeset that will be released initially, they have chosen an airforce that had a small selection of distinct aircraft. That way they at least have a chance of representing something small, but representing it well. All the other nationalities are to be added in stages, beginning soon after release.

This is a departure from the release-style of the Il-2 series, where they try (and fail) to represent the entire conflict in one hit. Leaving out key aircraft and then adding others willy-nilly in a long and agonising line of profitless patches.

Seems a little bizarre to select the US though, that sounds more like a marketing decision.
The US were hardly in WWI, let alone in terms of an airforce. Most yanks flew for the French - that Indian Head escadrille (Lafayette?)...

IMHO, would have been much better to include the relevant participants in the WW1 air war - England, France, Germany... And then include the US as they developed the sim. *Shrugs*

It's a bit like making the PTO of WW2 with Japan and Australia initially, and then including the US and UK once the sim had been developed....

Jagr - I'm more than happy to help if i can. I can't do the 3d modelling, but i have a fair amount of reference material on WW1 aircraft from all the combatants if you need performance data.