I Folgore.....

[Guest deleted@50488]

So curiosities I didn't know about:

 

 

1)  "As with the C.200, to counteract the torque of the engine, Castoldi extended the left wing by 21 cm (8.5 inches). This meant that the left wing developed more lift, offsetting the tendency of the aircraft to roll to the left due to the rotation of the propeller, which was an ingenious solution to a problematic issue faced by all aircraft designers." ( in Wikipedia )

 

- BTW: Haven't checked if this design feature can be glimpsed in our C.202 but I'll try to latter today :-)

 

2) "On 21 August 1941, Tenente Giulio Reiner, one of the most skillful and experienced pilots of 9° Gruppo, flew the "military control flight" in Lonate Pozzolo, The Ufficio tecnico (Technical Bureau) recorded the maximum speed of 1,078.27 km/h in the Folgore in a vertical dive, with 5.8 G. forces while pulling out of the dive. Ingegner Mario Castoldi, the designer of the 202 questioned whether Reiner had properly flown the test. In fact, during the vertical dive, Reiner had to face very strong vibrations throughout the airframe and in the control stick, while the flying controls were locked and the propeller blades were jammed at maximum pitch. The clean aerodynamics offered by the inline engine permitted dive speeds high enough for pilots to encounter the then-unknown phenomenon of compressibility" (in Wikipedia )

Edited August 13, 2015 by jcomm

[No_85_Gramps]

Interesting information.

[Finkeren]

The thing about the unequal length wings is pretty well known information and yes, it is most certainly noticeable, both IRL and in sims (I think it was apparent even in the old IL2)

 

I first became aware of it as a young kid, when I built a C.200 model kit and noticed, that the wings didn't look the same. At first I thought it was poor modeling work and was afraid the parts wouldn't come together right

Edited August 13, 2015 by Finkeren

[Guest deleted@50488]

The thing about the unequal length wings is pretty well known information and yes, it is most certainly noticeable, both IRL and in sims (I think it was apparent even in the old IL2)

 

I first became aware of it as a young kid, when I built a C.200 model kit and noticed, that the wings didn't look the same. At first I thought it was poor modeling work and was afraid the parts wouldn't come together right

 

Hehe. it's been a looong time since I left modeling, mainly Airfix and later Monopoly ( 1/32 scale ) with some Haswgawa, Nitto-Kagakku and even Aurora and other esotheric brands.

 

My first ever kit was a Ju.87 ( Heller 1/72 ). It was my father who assembled it. No painting :-/

Edited August 13, 2015 by jcomm

[Finkeren]

Scale modeling was a childhood thing for me as well. I gave it up at around age 16, though by that time I had become quite good at it and built over 100 pieces (mostly WW2 aircraft)

 

My first was one my one my father made for me as well, very similar to you, it was a Spitfire Mk.1 which he told me was "the best plane of the war"

[Guest deleted@50488]

Scale modeling was a childhood thing for me as well. I gave it up at around age 16, though by that time I had become quite good at it and built over 100 pieces (mostly WW2 aircraft)

 

My first was one my one my father made for me as well, very similar to you, it was a Spitfire Mk.1 which he told me was "the best plane of the war"

 

 

Hehe,

 

my father loved everything about Germany, including their war machines. He built a Stuka when he was around 14 around 1944, made of wood and cardboard, and a molded canopy.  Submarines were his other fashion :-)

 

I never had the chance to show him a flight simulator like those we have today, although by the time he passed away I had already used Jane's ww2 Fighters, one of my preferred ...  He would have admired il2 BoS, I am sure :-)

Edited August 13, 2015 by jcomm