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[slejsa]

I would like you to make a suggestion creating one of the best French WWII aircraft - Arsenal VG 39. Nowadays we have got already finished noce mod of older VG 33. I think that rebuilding of VG 33 to VG 39 shouldnt be so hard, because they are very similar.
The final development in the VG 30 series of fighters to be flown, the VG 39 commenced its flight test programme on 3^rd May 1940, and the prototype differed from the VG 33 primarily in having a 1200hp Hispano-Suiza Type 89ter 12-cylinder liquid-cooled engine with an elongated propeller shaft, a revised wing structure which retained the profile and contours of the earlier wing, and a wing-mounted armament of six 7.5mm MAC 1934 M39 machine guns. During flight testing the prototype VG 39 attained a maximum speed of 625km/h at an altitude of 5750m. The planned production model, the VG 39bis, was to have embodied a fuselage similar to that of the VG 36 and to have supplemented the wing armament with a 20mm engine-mounted cannon, the definitive model having a 1600hp Hispano-Suiza 12Z engine. (source:http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/arsenal_vg-39.php) The prototype took off for the last time on 15^th June 1940. Shortly afterwards it was destroyed on airfield Toulouse-Blagnac in order to didnt gain by proceeding Germans.
General characteristics
Category: fighter
Producer: Arsenal de l'aéronautique, Vilacoublay, France
Production Period: June 1940
Number of Produced: 1
Maiden Flight: 3.5.1940
Crew: 1
Empty Weight: 2 210 kg (4 872 lb)
Take-off Weight: 3 000 kg (6 614 lb)
Wingspan: 10,80 m (35ft 5,2in)
Length: 8,81 m (28ft 10,85in)
Height: 3,32 m (10ft 11in)
Wing Area: 14,00 m² (150.69 ft²)
Wing Loading: 214,286 kg/m² 43.89 lb/ft²
Type of Engine: Hispano-Suiza 12Y-89ter twelwe-cylinder liquid-cooled Vee-engine rated at 882,6 kW (1 184 hp) hor take-off
Propeller: driving a three-blade variable-pitch metal propeller
Fuel Tank Capacity: 440 l (96.786 UK gallons / 116.236 US gallons)
Maximum Speed: 625 km/h in 5 700 m (388.4 mph in 18701 ft)
Cruise Speed: 586 km/h (364.1 mph)
Climb Rate: 17,02 m/s (3 350.4 ft/min)
Time to Climb to: 4,92 min to 5 000 m   (16 404 ft)
Service Ceiling: 11 000 m (36 089 ft)
Range: 1 160 km (720.8 mi)
Armament: 6x fixed forward-firing 7,5 mm (0.295 inch) MAC M-34-39 machine-guns, monted in the wings + 20 mm HS-404 cannon (planned only)


comparing of VG 36 and VG 39

[singüe]

+1

[pierre118]

it is almost same 3d of VG33, I think someone have just to change FM

[Camomille]

It would be fantastic... but we have few idea of the Vg39bis's characteristics. Vg 39 ("prototype", 1200 Hp, vg33 design) flew, but not Vg 39bis (vg 36 design, 1600 Hp)

+1

[pierre118]

I have a friend wish is in fond the VG familly, and did his personal mod for having the VG39 by changing the Fm
if you want it ?

[slejsa]

It sounds promising.

[101tfs]

soon

[David Prosser]

Interesting.

[gilles64]

Very good news!!

Greetings,

Gilles

[Mr.Craig]

101tfs is on a roll with all these French planes! Looking forward to this one.

[DONAGHY]

very nice cant wait

[UberDemon]

want it... as in whinny fit-throwing on the floor want it.