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Really nice, Veltro. cantw ait for this one. was reading that the ANR tried to make it into a torpedo plane to replace the aging sm79 planes. the 2 machine guns were removed and it just had 3 mg151 cannon and the torpedo. But handling was reasonable and acceptable. might be an interesting variant to make when can. See here: [edit] Torpedo fighter One of the most renown and important branch of the Regia Aeronautica was the torpedo bomber one. In the early years of war, Italian pilots, mostly flying the three-engined, medium bomber SIAI-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero, inflicted considerable losses to Allied shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. Despite this, it was soon clear that the aging Sparviero design was no match for the always improving Allied fighters and anti aircraft defences: thus, in winter 1942, the Regia Aeronautica Staff conceived the idea of using a fighter aircraft torpedo attacks. This would have given the pilots an aircraft capable of delivering a torpedo at high speed and evade enemy fighters or engage them after the attack run, with an operational range of 300/400 km out of Italian coasts. Fiat was asked to begin studies for a G.55 conversion, meant to carry a 680 kg Whitehead torpedo, a shorter and less cumbersome version of the standard weapon used by the SM.79. However, soon, the decision to develop a G.57, whose specifications included from the beginning the capability of carrying torpedoes, led to the suspension of all similar work on the G.55. Later, after the G.57 project was dropped, and given the continuing need for the ANR crews of an aircraft that could replace the SM.79, the ANR engineers undertook the task of converting the Centauro for the torpedo attack role. A production aircraft (military serial number MM. 91086) was chosen to be transformed to carry a 920 kg, 5.46 m long, Whitehead torpedo. The radiator for the engine liquid cooler, positioned in the fuselage belly, under the cockpit area, was split in two, gaining a 90 cm slot where two racks were mounted to carry the torpedo. The tailwheel strut was lengthened and equipped with a strengthened shock absorber, and a protective cone was added in front of the tailwheel. The two Breda-SAFAT machine guns were removed, leaving the plane with the three 20mm cannons only as fixed armament. The aircraft, designated G.55 S, first flew in August 1944 and was successfully tested in January 1945.[5] Despite the cumbersome external load, performance was good and the handling acceptable. The ANR ordered a pre-series of 10 examples and a production series of 100 aircraft, but the events of the war put an end to the project. The G.55 S prototype survived the war and, after being converted back to the Serie I standard, it became the first G.55 to be delivered to the newly formed Aeronautica Militare Italiana (AMI). [edit] Fiat G.56 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_G.55

Thanks. Looking forward to all you guys do.

True, Edward was working on the East front maps and I think Balitka was at some point. i still play with my East front install I made some time ago with whats available in strike fighters world using the older ww2 Europe maps from major Lee's site. But noticed the Russians did make use of a lot of lend-lease planes as opposed to indigenous ones. plus have been playing around with Il-2 46 and doing CAS and strike missions in that. this got me thinking. See some pics here toward bottom of page from wiki. i guess just decals could be used with your and everyone else's existing skins. i wish I was skilled at skinning and had the time but working two jobs makes spare time precious for playing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-39 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40

So close to the holidays too. sad news indeed.

Hi, Kevin. thx for this skin. Any chance ona Russian Lend-lease for the p-40 and p-39 at some point in future?

I use his USN one. I have a problem with that too as the menu screens or the stats screen is always fuzzy for some reason making ti ahrd to sort out the stats. is there a fix for that?

Any chance of a japanese cargo ship or tanker?

thx, Veltro, antishipping here we come.

thanx, for the update gents. i really love flying the 109 jabos and the effects for my BOB install are awesome. Keep up the good work when can.

Hi, Guys. i just saw that the Ea-6B for Thirdwire is available at the Razbam website. Just doqloaded it but wont get to it till later in weeked. So head over if interested. here's a link: http://www.razbam.org/store/advanced_searc...s=ea6+b+prowler

Hi, how is this mod going? Were there gonna be me109 e-4 and 4b's at some point? Thx.

player, but the other plnes work such as he-111's, wrench's mods and work done by others. Just these ones.

hi guys, I just noticed that the bristol beaufighter and blenheim planes crash to desktop, whereas before patch, thye were working. i did not mess with the plane folders as other planes work. Anyone else having a prob? thx. Dont know who made them.

yes plz post. thx.

Hi, that pic above that Brain mentions is one I also see in some terrains. thye look like small peieces far out to sea. I think Greece terrain has it too.

Nope, no ati, using NVIDIA 6150 vid card with a dual core AMD 4400plus. Over 2GB RAM CPU at 2.3 GHZ. I have my water set to high on all TW sims.

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i too get that shadow around land as well. cant be specific on which terrain but I think Greece was one and a few other third party terrains.

Hi, I did some more testing and it seems with the germanyCE map for woe with the new panel set by brain 32 and the height addon, there is no stutter. same goes for the deutschalnd terrain by gepard. VietnamSEA for WOV is good to with occasional stutter. is it because the scenery is low poly? Or is there something in data ini to make chg so all terrains run smooth. i tested using f10 key and especially on the runway. Or is case of too many objects in the scenery itself?

You said it, where can youfins a sim that can mod all these historical planes? Thanks.

Wow, thats impressive shots. thx.

Excellent. does this include takeoff fix also?

Nice Wrench. any chance on the j version in future?

A gunship version would be awesome for this bird: See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_AC-119

Thx, nice skin. would like to see a French skin as the boxcar was involved in Dien Bien Phu during France's foray in Southeast Asia. Perfect for WOV. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-119