Developer Diary 258 - Discussion

[Bo_Nidle]

Looking forward to this one. Huge fan of the Razorback P-51B/C.

 

But don't forget to lose the D whistle, as the Razorbacks didn't/don't whistle like the D/K bubbletops.

[Bremspropeller]

On 8/16/2020 at 4:31 AM, sevenless said:

Nah, I would go for this beauty, though he crashed it at Debden in April 1944 and went back to the states after that. So that plane might be a tad bit before the timeframe of BoN. Nevertheless Captain Don Gentile or Captain John Trevor Godfrey supposedly shot down the CO of JG3 "Udet" Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke (160ish ace) near Brunswick in 3/44 :

 

 

Interesting! Just drove through Schöppenstedt (where Wilcke supposedly came down) twice today on my way to Halberstadt* and back!

Just scrolled through this thread again to read-up on some info on the P-51 B/C. Coincidences...

 

Something different came to my mind:

Will the B/C have the 2x1000lb bomb capacity? Those bombs were eventually cleared on the B/C.

 

The wings had been cleared for 1000lb initially, but some A-36 pilot thought it was a good idea to do a rolling pull-out with dive brakes out and 2x1000lb bombs attached near max dive speed and henceworth folded a wing - thus the clearance was reduced to 500lb on each wing for some time.

 

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* I was looking for remnants of the Junkers production-facilities there, but there's absolutely zip left.

[sevenless]

14 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

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* I was looking for remnants of the Junkers production-facilities there, but there's absolutely zip left.

 

Same with AGO in Oschersleben. I was there shortly after the iron-curtain fell. Didn´t find some remains. However there seems to be a local book about AGO:

• René Scheer: AGO-Flugzeugwerke. Vom Gitterrumpf zur Me 262. Ziethen, Oschersleben 2014, ISBN 978-3-86289-078-1

AGO-Flugzeugwerke: Vom Gitterrumpf zur Me 262: Amazon.de: Scheer, René, Scheer, René: Bücher

 

Scheer, René – AGO-Flugzeugwerke. Vom Gitterrumpf zur Me 262 - dr. ziethen verlag (t-online.de)