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Originally posted by PanzerAce:

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Originally posted by Unknown-Pilot:

I'm not sure it was quite "double", but yes, did have to increase p/w a little. And they also added the vert/hover stabilization (the flaps and exhaust gas jets), but they did THAT using tech that could have been pulled off at the time. So it is HARDLY "beyond fantasy" as you say.

The vert/hover stabilization system would have been solved had they had the time, and, all it would have taken then was either dropping CR and ramping up the boost, or, using a turbo prop, which isn't hard to figure out.

In 1946? Maybe not with everything else going on, but eliminate the material shortage, give them some breathing room and remove Hitler (as per the IL2 1946 story line) and it's actually VERY concievable.

....And a great addition to the game, no matter what all the crap plane whiners may have to say. lol

But anyway, point is, engine power aside, it would have worked. So it's really not all that far out.

Same is true for even the Ta-183. I just wish they would have given us the 2nd tail, which is the one that would have worked, instead we got that FM with the 3D model of the more "well known" tail. Ugh.

The only really far fetched plane is the 162D, the forward swept wings would require materials not invented for quite some time. THAT's really pushing things.

It sucks balls that they couldn't give us an uprated 229 though. The 262HG II is using the same engine size (at least on tbe model) but has a more advanced engine in it. The same could slot easily into the 229. And they'd be insane not to - it's just too obvious and too easy.

(but then I suppose one could say the same about MW-50 on the Pfeil as well..... )

Forward swept wings aren't believable and wouldn't work with the materials they had? Good thing nobody told that to the guys that flew and built the Ju-287.

Also, for the 229, really I just wish that in addition to the V series pre production one we have, that they gave us one of the A-0s, bombload and everything.

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Flight tests began on 8 August 1944, with the aircraft displaying extremely good handling characteristics, as well as revealing some of the problems of the forward-swept wing under some flight conditions.