1 hour ago, Jude Bradley said:

Regarding the propeller change, Len Deighton states in "Fighter - the true story of the Battle of Britain", that DH sent crews over mostly free of charge, fitting one propeller, and supervising an in-house tech to do the next one, which speed up the migration considerably. 

More than likely true, however, whenever anyone mentions that book - which I bought originally when it first came out in 1979 - I can't help but recall this incident:

Not long after having bought that book, I befriended a WW2 Spitfire pilot veteran - Wing Cdr Jimmy Jay - whom my dad introduced me to since they worked together and were good pals. Jimmy was full of interesting tales and was instrumental in encouraging me to become a pilot too, which is why my dad had put me in touch with him. As you can imagine, with me being about sixteen at the time I first met him and he being a guy who'd actually flown combat in WW2 in Spitfires, I pretty much worshipped the guy, we chatted a lot about the Battle of Britain many times and combat with German aeroplanes, but on one occasion I remember being somewhat crestfallen when I mentioned something from Deighton's Fighter book in conversation with Jimmy, it was about the relative merits of the bf109 and the Spitfire, and when he asked me where I'd 'got that silly notion from?'. I said it was in that book, to which he replied: 'a lot of what is in that book is absolute rubbish'. However, shortly after that, he lent me a couple of his own books on the subject and said: 'have a read of these - they'll put you straight!' You might be interested to know that when I asked Jimmy to sum up what it was like flying Spitfires in WW2, he simply said: 'It was the best job in the world, I'd have done it for nothing'.

I should point out that I subsequently lent my original copy of Len Deighton's Fighter to someone and I never got it back, but I did then buy another copy of it, because in spite of my old RAF friend's criticisms of some of the stuff in it, there are a lot of genuinely interesting and true things in it as well, so I went to the trouble of replacing the missing copy of it with another one!

Best book on the Spitfire I know of incidentally, is kind of hard to find these days since it is long since out of print, however it can be found on Abe's Books fairly easily for less than a tenner, it being this one. That's another one I had to buy twice for having lent my original copy of it to someone and never having got that back, which is why I know you can find it on Abe's Books because I had to get another copy from there!

Edited June 13, 20214 yr by Chock

I think I bought about 3 copies of that book - as well as "Bomber" - excellent fictional book. I first read it in the library in the 70's and bought the hardback edition a few years ago because the paperback edition did not have the original illustrations comparing the Hawker Fury with the Hurricane. - For the time it was written, before the internet, it was probably a lot harder to do research and verify the actual performance of aircraft back then, unless you had someone like Eric Brown to talk to who had a wide first-hand experience of flying Allied and Axis aircraft. 

 

Solution is easy: Pressure them to do a release of a P-38!  😁

9 hours ago, YoYo said:

Really? Do you want to have unfinished model?

If Dev says its not ready, means not ready, simply. Some codes are not added, maybe the flight model is not finished, skins are not finished maybe, no all animations etc. Do not believe the screenshots that something seems to be finished in fact, and it is not and can cause a lot of flustration if they decided for themselves that the model is not ready for release. AH still hasn't had the final patch for his DC-3/C-47 (P3Dv4/5, VC light is permanently on even in a day LOL for example after the last update) released over a year ago, so here it is time to give them time to polish their first MSFS model. Never push Dev to release unfinshed model, this may backfire for authors and the community (especially for the full price, I can understand possibly early acces with a big discount LOL) 🤪 .

I guess you didn't read my follow-up a few posts down.😶  Like your doing now I made the same mistake jumping to a conclusion without fleshing out all the details.  I read posts in other threads and thought something totally different was going on.  It wasn't until I read the official statement that I realized my error. 

Edited June 13, 20214 yr by Dillon

1 hour ago, Stoopy said:

Solution is easy: Pressure them to do a release of a P-38!  😁

The original intent of this thread was made in error on my part.  I've explained it over and over again... 

Edited June 13, 20214 yr by Dillon

I'm thinking petition PMDG to release DC-6! 😎😉

11 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

I'm thinking petition PMDG to release DC-6! 😎😉

OK.  And THEN a P-38.....😁

 

3 hours ago, Stoopy said:

OK.  And THEN a P-38.....😁

 

Ok then :)))