Madmatt Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Today we added details on the 29 new planes added in the Expansion as well as info on 13 of the new campaigns. See for youself here: http://www.battlefront.com/products/eastern_front/index.html Madmatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanadu Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Very interesting. I assume that the referrence to the 'Lancaster' in the B24 piece actually refers to the B17. Note that the B24 had two serious problems. First, the thick, Davis-style airfoil shape tended to lose lift suddenly at low speeds making it much harder to handle with an engine out than the B17. Second, the main structual strength of the a/c was along the spine of the a/c. The lower fuselage was fairly lightly built, and in a belly landing the plane tended to end up looking like a smashed bug, and the flight engineer's turret crashing down onto the flight deck directly behind the pilots, and, not uncommonly, onto them. On the other hand, it was slightly faster than the B17, had a slightly greater bombload and rather greater range. Also, its gun positions had somewhat better fields of fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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