19.04.2009, 04:35
No worries mate :wink:
*flight testers should check their emails.
I've distributed some revised modelling. It seems the RLM issued a directive in Apr45 that production Ta152C must delete the rear fuselage tank for CoG issues when carrying external stores. This lightens the C by around 280kg (and also reduces fuel tankage to below that of the Ta152H).
Plus I've revised engine performance curves trying to get those right using the data.
At 2500m maximum level speed should be around 575km/h true at kampfleistung (2500u/min) and 620km/h at sondernotleistung (WEP/MW50), this is what we're aiming for. Initial climb ought to be mid 13m/s and mid 15m/s respectively but this might not be sustainable due to increased weight over the preproduction series calculated test data.
I hope you're all enjoying the alpha Ta152C-0, that one's a real hotrod
According to the best sources, inferred by a Feb45 Focke Wulf document describing the incident it seems Kurt Tank may have been in fact flying Ta152V-6 (Ta152C-01) during his encounter with six Mustangs. With the 2400PS 603EC motor and only some 4370kg take off weight no wonder he left them for dead!
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I also have a request for any Frankenplane experts (Ranwers...)
I'd really love a Ta152H fitted with Ta152C wings to make a Ta152B-5 assault fighter which was to replace the Ta152C-5 that was planned. Basically it's a C-5 (ie. 3x Mk103 guns, no weapons in the cowling, external stores under fuselage and wings) but using the Jumo 213EB engine.
This way we can have the entire Ta152 series that was to enter production for a 1946 campaign. Give something for all these postwar Allied fighter mods to shoot down
*flight testers should check their emails.
I've distributed some revised modelling. It seems the RLM issued a directive in Apr45 that production Ta152C must delete the rear fuselage tank for CoG issues when carrying external stores. This lightens the C by around 280kg (and also reduces fuel tankage to below that of the Ta152H).
Plus I've revised engine performance curves trying to get those right using the data.
At 2500m maximum level speed should be around 575km/h true at kampfleistung (2500u/min) and 620km/h at sondernotleistung (WEP/MW50), this is what we're aiming for. Initial climb ought to be mid 13m/s and mid 15m/s respectively but this might not be sustainable due to increased weight over the preproduction series calculated test data.
I hope you're all enjoying the alpha Ta152C-0, that one's a real hotrod
According to the best sources, inferred by a Feb45 Focke Wulf document describing the incident it seems Kurt Tank may have been in fact flying Ta152V-6 (Ta152C-01) during his encounter with six Mustangs. With the 2400PS 603EC motor and only some 4370kg take off weight no wonder he left them for dead!
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I also have a request for any Frankenplane experts (Ranwers...)
I'd really love a Ta152H fitted with Ta152C wings to make a Ta152B-5 assault fighter which was to replace the Ta152C-5 that was planned. Basically it's a C-5 (ie. 3x Mk103 guns, no weapons in the cowling, external stores under fuselage and wings) but using the Jumo 213EB engine.
This way we can have the entire Ta152 series that was to enter production for a 1946 campaign. Give something for all these postwar Allied fighter mods to shoot down