No 56 Sqn

[vschoell 0]

Hello,

 

i've started a carreer in April 1917 with No 59 Sqn and saw that the Se5a's have 4 propeller blades. Is that correct cause i think the 4 propeller blade Se5a came much later in Autumn 1917. The pictures in the book aviation elite units (No 56 Sqn) shows too, that they had only two blades. I think the 56 Sqn started with a Se5 and in Summer came the Se5a. Later in Autumn the 4 blade version.

 

What is correct ?

 

vschoell

[Pappy55 1]

I believe it to do with which version you have..

 

One has the hispano suiza engone and one the viper

[sandbagger 1]

The early SE5 proved unreliable with its 150HP Hispano Suiza engine.

 

It was superceded by the SE5a with a 200 HP Hispano Suiza engine driving a four bladed propellor.

 

Later versions of the SE5a had the Wolseley Viper engine driving a two bladed propeller.

 

We don't model the first version, the early SE5.

 

Also one SE5a version has an iron ring gunsight whilst the other has a boretube sight.

 

So it depends when you start flying the SE5a and in which Squadron as to if you get the HS or Viper version. Of course if you have a British pilot and fly in QC mode, you can fly either.

Edited January 10, 2010 by sandbagger

[+Polovski 460]

..and as Uncleal says we do not have all possible variants of each and every craft (otherwise we'd never get anything done ;))

 

For example Eindecker III stands in for I and II and IV usually until we can make those. Some craft had dozens of variants in - lots of work to make all. One day...

[Rugbyfan1972 1]

Hello,

 

i've started a carreer in April 1917 with No 59 Sqn and saw that the Se5a's have 4 propeller blades. Is that correct cause i think the 4 propeller blade Se5a came much later in Autumn 1917. The pictures in the book aviation elite units (No 56 Sqn) shows too, that they had only two blades. I think the 56 Sqn started with a Se5 and in Summer came the Se5a. Later in Autumn the 4 blade version.

 

What is correct ?

 

vschoell

 

Vschoell,

 

I am not sure on the propellor blades issue you are talking about, but the easiest way to tell the difference between the SE5 of which only 18 werre build according to the history of 56 in WW1 by Alex Revell is that the SE5 had rounded wingtips and the SE5a had the clipped wingtips.

 

Wikipeadia has an informative page on both the SE5 and the SE5a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_S.E.5

 

Thanks

Rugbyfan

[Bandy 3]

Also one SE5a version has an iron ring gunsight whilst the other has a boretube sight.

 

The sight mentioned is called an Aldis gunsight, which wasn't simply a 'boretube', nor was it a telescopic sight, but had columnating lens... more HERE

 

. . . In Phase 1, OFF had a Zepplin, however the files for the Zepplin were only on loan. ...

 

So if one has an earlier version of OFF then am I wrong in assuming that it can be ported over to OFF3? There was an excellent hit-the-zeps mission for OFF2, but the zeps were only in hangars.