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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Other
Subject:Re: New Aircraft
Posted by: moonglum01 - 19years 102days ago.
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Bombadil wrote:
Panzer wrote:
moonglum01 wrote:
UrlicVonFlagg wrote:
How about a Sopwith Dolphin?


One of the top planes, but I wonder how you would account for those crazy firing angles of the lewis guns on the top wings



The S.E. 5 had a top mount lewis on some models.
What about the Austrian Phoenix or Berg ? Seems like one could look at the planes from Yaquinto's Wings to work out the maneuver schedule.


In the original board game the SE5a had that Lewis gun. The problem it presented the pilot was in had ammo magazines that would run dry and then have to be reloaded. (In that game also, the Bristol had TWIN Lewis' for the observer to hose you with - that was fun!)
Bombadil



Actually what I meant was that the Dolphin has 4 (yes FOUR) guns! 2 Lewis guns were mounted on the top, but they had some odd firing angles, and the guns were on opposite sides of the top wing on either side of the cockpit - so (I assume) the pilot had to reach up with one or both hands to fire either gun. Some pilots really liked it - one guy (can't remember his name - Canadian I think) took on 60 german planes with a Dolphin - won a VC.

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