FSW have just released the P-40 Warhawk for anyone that is interested...

[Trooper117]

Flight Sim World have released the P-40...  

 

[Danziger]

Interesting...

[Jade_Monkey]

They mention how they included pilot's accounts and not just the manual specs for speed. That's a hot topic for the P40 in IL2.

 

I hope the P39 is not as strict in that regard. The P40 is practically useless, i dont even know why i take it out for a spin anymore.

[Feathered_IV]

I don't touch Il-2's P-40 either.  It's only good for screenshots.  If it is true to life, then it is surely one of the most ineffective aircraft of WW2.

[Hoss]

As soon as he said merlin engine in front of you instead of Allison I stopped watching it............... 

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

As soon as he said merlin engine in front of you instead of Allison I stopped watching it...............

There was a P-40 equipped with a Merlin engine, presumably that's the one they're modelling.

[Legioneod]

As soon as he said merlin engine in front of you instead of Allison I stopped watching it............... 

P-40F and P-40L both used Packard built Merlins.

[Danziger]

Yeah supposedly the models before and after the E model were great and the one we got was the worst performing P40.

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

We got the most widespread one, for better or worse. No P-40 was objectively great relative to the opposition, but they were all OK in capable hands working together. Having that degree of symbiotic cooperation is extremely rare online, however.

[Dakpilot]

We got the one that was used at the end of the Moscow campaign and at Stalingrad, of all the P-40's that 'grew the legend' ours was probably the least effective regardless of all the hard work and useful service the E model and its pilots gave. The success of US pilots in Mediterranean was initially mostly with Merlin engines, those being in the P-40's first deployed there

 

Cheers, Dakpilot

[Legioneod]

We got the one that was used at the end of the Moscow campaign and at Stalingrad, of all the P-40's that 'grew the legend' ours was probably the least effective regardless of all the hard work and useful service the E model and its pilots gave. The success of US pilots in Mediterranean was initially mostly with Merlin engines, those being in the P-40's first deployed there

 

Cheers, Dakpilot

The P-40E engine isnt really the problem, the problem is the way it is modeled in-game. To restrictive and unrealistic, if not for the gimp engine the P-40 would perform much better in-game.

[Royal_Flight]

That video makes it look really appealing.

It looks like it could be a P-40F as it doesn't appear to have the extended tailfin, although I didn't get a good enough look from the video.

 

But yeah, bittersweet as it reminds you of the massive engine modelling-shaped shortcoming in 'our' P-40.

We did get the version with the lowest power-to-weight ratio, but even still it should be better performing as has been mentioned millions of times by people with better access to the facts than me, the engine limits are far too conservative.

It's a fun experiment to take the P-40 up for a spin in easy mode with no engine limits and see what it can do if you get more than five mins at combat power...

 

Would have been good to have got a Tomahawk IIA (P-40B) because I've always thought the earlier models look much more aggressive, and would have been lighter so better performing.

 

 

But hey, I've dragged the thread miles off-topic. Apologies

[Trooper117]

I'm with you on the early P-40B... it was one of my favourites in the old IL2

[katdog5]

looks goofy