II/JG17_HerrMurf Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Nate, looks like you're gonna get that wingman now!!
FlatSpinMan Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 That Catherine Zeta Jones but was hilarious. She was a stunner, wasn't she? Out of interest, given the number (and quality, might I add) of plane-woman fantasists, who would the Hurricane be - not some lantern-jawed Trop version, btw? Ditto for the 110 (any version) and the 109 E in BOF/BOB schemes.
Feathered_IV Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 I-16 is Wee Jimmy Krankie... No no no NO!!! The I-16 is a cute little Russian gymnast. I never want to google another name like the one you just suggested ever again.
sallee Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 No no no NO!!! The I-16 is a cute little Russian gymnast. I never want to google another name like the one you just suggested ever again. LOL! I can imagine the shock of seeing that for the first time......if it helps, you can think about the fact that she and her husband were "swingers".....
Feathered_IV Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Thats a she? Crikey. I can understand why her husband might swing though. Anything for a bit of MiG on the side.
Finkeren Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) That Catherine Zeta Jones but was hilarious. She was a stunner, wasn't she? Out of interest, given the number (and quality, might I add) of plane-woman fantasists, who would the Hurricane be - not some lantern-jawed Trop version, btw? Ditto for the 110 (any version) and the 109 E in BOF/BOB schemes. Easy: The Hurricane is Lena Dunham, not much to look at, but with loads of carisma and much more talent, than you'd think. The Bf 110 is Pamela Anderson, slender, sleek appearance that's completely ruined by a pair of big bulbous... engines. Relatively useless except late at night, when you really oughta be sleeping. The 109 is Helena Bonham Carter. She's at her best, when she's really evil and screwed up and likes to hurt people. Edited February 14, 2015 by Finkeren
sallee Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Thats a she? Crikey. I can understand why her husband might swing though. Anything for a bit of MiG on the side. Not for nothing do Scots women have a reputation for beauty. Perhaps that's why they invented Whisky.
DD_Arthur Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Please can we stop with the Krankies now. I'm feeling bilious
ShamrockOneFive Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 This was a very well timed image Looking forward to the MiG-3. All this talk about the MiG-3 and I decided to go and check out the old Blinding Sun campaign that came with IL-2 1946 where you spend about half of it flying the MiG-3ud. It's a better plane than I remember and the campaign is fantastic. 1
Feathered_IV Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Blinding Sun is one of my all-time favourite campaigns. Must have played it through a dozen times. Maybe it will get a remake one of these days.
ShamrockOneFive Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Blinding Sun is one of my all-time favourite campaigns. Must have played it through a dozen times. Maybe it will get a remake one of these days. A good idea! I hope it does too. It looks like we'll have everything required to make it too... although I'm curious what the devs have planned for aircraft like the Yak-1 and LaGG-3 that served in the battle but were slightly earlier sub versions.
Finkeren Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Looking forward to the MiG-3. All this talk about the MiG-3 and I decided to go and check out the old Blinding Sun campaign that came with IL-2 1946 where you spend about half of it flying the MiG-3ud. It's a better plane than I remember and the campaign is fantastic. Once the MiG-3 was lightened and simplified a bit and had the automatic slats installed (the version us IL-2 old-timers know as 'MiG-3ud') it was not at all a bad aircraft. It was just more demanding to fly than the Yak and significantly more complicated to operate than the I-16s it replaced, which lead to its poor reputation. In reality it had excellent medium-high altitude performance, was way more maneuverable than the LaGG-3 and was rather reliable (for an early war VVS aircraft) The few air regiments that actually recieved proper training on the MiG achieved rather good results throughout 1941 when they weren't deployed in ways that absolutely did not fit the MiG-3 like low level ground attack. Looking very much forward to it. Unfortunately, judging by the image posted in the DD we will get the early 1941 version of the MiG-3, which means it will propably have quite poor handling. I hope the devs will reconsider and give us the version that was actually the most common during BoM, or at least let us have the modifications as unlocks.
DD_Arthur Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Memories of a "party"? I spent five years of my late teens - early twenties based at Arbroath. Yes, it does bring back some fairly hideous but thankfully hazey memories of double-bagger nights
sallee Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Yoinks....the heady aroma of Arbroath Smokies.
DD_Arthur Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Double-bagger night. I believe it would be called a "unit bonding exercise" these days. Edited February 14, 2015 by DD_Arthur
ShamrockOneFive Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Once the MiG-3 was lightened and simplified a bit and had the automatic slats installed (the version us IL-2 old-timers know as 'MiG-3ud') it was not at all a bad aircraft. It was just more demanding to fly than the Yak and significantly more complicated to operate than the I-16s it replaced, which lead to its poor reputation. In reality it had excellent medium-high altitude performance, was way more maneuverable than the LaGG-3 and was rather reliable (for an early war VVS aircraft) The few air regiments that actually recieved proper training on the MiG achieved rather good results throughout 1941 when they weren't deployed in ways that absolutely did not fit the MiG-3 like low level ground attack. Looking very much forward to it. Unfortunately, judging by the image posted in the DD we will get the early 1941 version of the MiG-3, which means it will propably have quite poor handling. I hope the devs will reconsider and give us the version that was actually the most common during BoM, or at least let us have the modifications as unlocks. Interesting. Yeah I looked it up and it does look like it has the identifying marks for an early model rather than the later one. Who knows... we'll see what details they release in the coming weeks. I'd be kinda surprised if the leading edge slats equipped MiG-3ud wasn't made available.
Finkeren Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Interesting. Yeah I looked it up and it does look like it has the identifying marks for an early model rather than the later one. Who knows... we'll see what details they release in the coming weeks. I'd be kinda surprised if the leading edge slats equipped MiG-3ud wasn't made available.I'm considering starting a thread to call the devs attention to it. What we call the MiG-3ud was basically the production standard from July 1941 onwards, so by late 1941 it would've been the predominant version in service. As for having the slats as unlock, I would hope so, but we didn't get them for the LaGG-3 in BoS (which would've brought it up to Series 35 standard) For the MiG there's the added complication, that at some point after the introduction of slats, chances were made to the cowling, which made the later 'long nosed' MiGs visually distinct from their 'short nosed' predecessors. I hope we can get the devs to make the later version as the standard. Edited February 14, 2015 by Finkeren 1
Yakdriver Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Out of interest, given the number (and quality, might I add) of plane-woman fantasists, who would the Hurricane be - not some lantern-jawed Trop version, btw? Ditto for the 110 (any version) and the 109 E in BOF/BOB schemes. 109E: jasmine dridevil - vade retro retro vade!!! 109 F4/G2: olivia wilde - perfection. 110E/F: jennifer carpenter - not a classic beauty, but she looks like she can take you to hell and back - and have fun while doing that. Edited February 14, 2015 by Yakdriver
Trooper117 Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Some of you forget... these are 1940's birds... you need to be thinking of women in that timeframe. 1
Yakdriver Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 i ain' interested in girls of that timeframe.they are either gone now or ... err... well... not exactly my hunting grounds?!
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