Friends,
please stop requesting for more airplanes, while we already have so many to enjoy at this moment. I have already said along time ago, the Fokker Dr.1 is still being worked on. It is not finished yet and
cannot fly properly. Somethings are still missing, and I am sure you would not want to have an airplane
that does not fly good in your game? Correct?
So, until the Master-Mod-Artists finish their work without stress from everybody always asking for more
airplanes, we must enjoy what they have already created for us. These things take along time to be created. It is NOT easy.
They already created some excellent machines for us all to enjoy. Let us leave the guys in peace to work on the airplanes,
they are doing a great job.
If your going to say to me, "Yeah, Max ol´chap, they are good but some look like `Frankenplanes´ they look very weird."
I will say to you honestly as a friend, that these so-called Frankeplanes look very much like the real aircraft that actually flew
in World War 1 in combat. Honestly they do!
How many airplane types do most people actually notice in history books or photos about WW1?
I am sure many people just remember the most famous ones, like Fokker Dr.1, the Albatros D-series, the Sopwith Camel,
The Spad and probably a few 8 other airplanes.
But in reality there was something like 1000+ diferent airplane types flying in combat in WW1.
Some of them are soooooo incredibly crazy looking aircraft that they make our IL-2+Mods `frankenplanes´ look very cool!
I have thousands of books about airplanes and about WW1+WW2 and about 600+ of those books are just about WW1 aircraft
with many photographs and information.
If you would like, I can take a few scans of those photos and post them here for you to compare them to our lovely "Frankenplanes".
You will see that our planes are very sexy compared to the real airplanes.
Which means, we got some very great mods flying in
the IL-2 right now, so lets stop calling them Frankenplanes. They are Sexy machines!
You may be correct if you also say that some of these airplanes fly very strange, but you have to remember that these aircraft
were from 1915-1918.
These Great War aircraft were flying into combat just about 11 years after the Wright Brothers first put an airplane flying in
the skies! ???
It was a great time to experiment alot of new things in airplanes. New inventions in airplane design, wing configurations,
new engines, etc. etc..
Many of the real airplanes actually never flew properly either, they actually sucked big time. Many of them had wings falling off,
engines malfuctioning all the time, castor oil leaking all over the place. radiators that blew up and burned the pilots face, so
many crazy things that could go wrong... really went wrong! Even the most famous airplanes sucked big time. Many pilots died
because of their problems in flight. But also remember, that these were the most advanced aircraft on Earth at the time. It was
like the P-51 Mustang or the Messerschmitt-262 was to World War 2 at that time.
So what many of you call IL-2-Frankenplanes, actually they behave in this same realistic manner as the real airplanes from that
time period.
It is as if you are a test-pilot and a fighter-pilot at the same time, and you are flying into combat an aircraft that anything bad
could happen at any second. It is a very fragile airplane, just like the real machines.
I often have my lower wing snap right off my Albatros D.III after I make a quick maneuver during combat.
In the real airplane this also happened many times. The Albatros was actually very prone to having its lower wing snap-right-off
the airplane and break in the same situation. So
I honestly believe and support always the way our Mod-Artists have created
these airplanes for our game.
Because these airplanes are behaving very much like the real machines from WW1.
Anyway,
let us stop asking for more new airplanes and complaining that these are "Frankenplanes"...
...As the old proverb says,
"Good things will come to those who wait".
One day soon the Fokker DR.1 and many many other cool airplanes will be finished and ready for you to
enjoy.
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Topic: DBW 1916 update v4 (UPDATED! 29.03.2019) (Read 441211 times)
