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[ANDYTOTHED]

What about the P-51H?



Do allow for the tail assembly and they look fairly similar

[Spinnetti]

What about the P-51H?
Do allow for the tail assembly and they look fairly similar

Nope. I mean, you can make what you want of course, and it will be great, but the real thing was very different than the P51.. I built a Radio controlled model and as I researched it, I found many, many differences. For a franken stand-in, maybe ok, but given the fine work in IL2 now, it would be a shame to do it less quality than the rest....

[ANDYTOTHED]

 North American Design Chief Edgar Schmued incorporated two P-51H Mustang fuselages lengthened by the addition of a 57 in (145 cm) fuselage plug located behind the cockpit where additional fuel tanks and equipment could be installed. These were mounted to a newly designed center wing section containing the same six .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns as a single-engine Mustang, but with more concentrated fire. The outer wings were strengthened to allow the addition of hard points for carrying additional fuel or 1,000 lb (454 kg) of ordnance. The two vertical tails were also from the XP-51F, but incorporated large dorsal fillets for added stability in case of an engine failure. The aircraft had a conventional landing gear with both wheels retracting into bays under each fuselage center section.

The only difference I have found (apart from it having another plane strapped to it) is that the later models used Allison engines.
This meant that the later models had bulged engine bays to allow for the stupidly large radiator.


I do not doubt your words, nor your own research. All I'm saying is that atleast 30% of a late model P-82 used P-51 tech for example parts of the airframe and wing.

[Spinnetti]

North American Design Chief Edgar Schmued incorporated two P-51H Mustang fuselages lengthened by the addition of a 57 in (145 cm) fuselage plug located behind the cockpit where additional fuel tanks and equipment could be installed. These were mounted to a newly designed center wing section containing the same six .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns as a single-engine Mustang, but with more concentrated fire. The outer wings were strengthened to allow the addition of hard points for carrying additional fuel or 1,000 lb (454 kg) of ordnance. The two vertical tails were also from the XP-51F, but incorporated large dorsal fillets for added stability in case of an engine failure. The aircraft had a conventional landing gear with both wheels retracting into bays under each fuselage center section.

The only difference I have found (apart from it having another plane strapped to it) is that the later models used Allison engines.
This meant that the later models had bulged engine bays to allow for the stupidly large radiator.

I do not doubt your words, nor your own research. All I'm saying is that atleast 30% of a late model P-82 used P-51 tech for example parts of the airframe and wing.

No worries, and certainly close enough for game purposes!

[BravoFxTrt]

Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun, lol

[bomberkiller]

Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun, lol

    

[Wildchild]

I can't tell you how many times P-82 pilots replaced parts with '51 parts just to make it more reliable.

And yes, they used the Allison version of the Rolls Royce Merlin. The only difference was the name. (In WW2, P-51D's were sent out of the factory with Allison-Merlin's liscensed to be build in the US, and once they got to the U.K. they would replace broken parts with RR parts)

[A1_Phoenix]

You misspelled "Packard", Wildchild

[Wildchild]

Dammit, Sh*t happens. 

[HotelAlpha]

Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun, lol

 


Precisely!     

Make a Twin Starfighter for me and I will be very happy, even better a twin Spit!

[GUZKNIFE]

Works in 4.12 SAS ModAct 5.11 Thank you!

[dsawan]

hi, put it in 4.12 latest modact and no go.The model does not sjow in the plane selection same with loadout, just the text. is there another naddon that goes with it.