[No.5 Studly]

It would be nice to see a P40N or K in this game hock:

[Tesla]

I've PM'ed someone to see if they can import it for me.

[Guest]

An XP-40Q would be interesting but totally what-if final model of the the Hawk. It was good but not good enough to beat out fighters already in production.

[Loht773]

Yeah I agree but the P-40 F was the best P-40 in service (at least as a high altitude fighter) and it really deserves to be in game. Its one hell of a fighter!


Plus the model is done (thank you Tesla!) and we only need a new FM, a default skin and a new slot to get it in game, the problem is everybody is busy doing something else, may be when some of the work is done this could be in game pretty fast.


Cheers!

[American]

Here a shot of the default P-40E's dreadful innacuracies...

You know bee that your putting a orthographic drawing of the p-40 against a model that's at a field of view of 45

It might not be that inaccurate but it is off..

[Phas3e]

A little OT but 2 P40s newly restored flew this week one in NZ and a F in Aussie

[vanir]

Yeah that chin scoop was lengthened and the frontal shape changed because the Merlin carburettor air intake was moved there from the Allison one. Early F had the E airframe, but very quickly the longer airframe in common with the M was used for better directional stability at take off.

The Merlin's biggest change is the two speed supercharger manually operated by the pilot. It has better performance than the E which was pretty much alongside it, but it's a pretty early Merlin and performance of the M with the more refined Allison (in common with the K) is about the same. The Merlin just really delivers the same performance at a slightly higher altitude than the M and has a slightly higher ceiling, so the F is a better fighter while the M is a better fighter-bomber.

If you really want to get a performance improvement do the L that was made for Northern Africa, it's the lightened F by less fuel store and fewer guns for improved initial climb rates, turn and acceleration. That's really the hotrod version. As an RAAF enthusiast though I would like to see the F for cosmetic purposes, we used a small number of them, just that its FM is going to be not very much different to the M (with the addition of that two speed supercharger). So it is mostly just a cosmetic change in mission building and a slight difference in pilot atmosphere (different engine sound, manual supercharger).

I would like to see new visual models for the existing P40E and M though, new slots if we have to. Like Bee said I cringe so much when I look at them I can barely stand flying them, even though I do rather like to make RAAF missions in the South Pacific...which relied almost entirely on the P40E and M for the bulk of the war (with a handful of F).

[78thFG_Doodle]

I love the P-40 Warhawk, this plane would be great to have.

[Guest]

+100000000000000000000

[Loht773]

I agree!

We only need a new FM, a new slot and a skin and its done. The problem is everyone is busy, maybe if some of the guys working on the RAAF P-40s gets ineterested it might get done.



Cheers!