@ Helldiver: I hope you didn't take my quotations above personal, I just wanted to share them. I also understand your feelings about the subject, as one who has been there.
I also think that anybody who tackles this project will find it great to have someone here who has first hand experience and is willing to share this. Great opportunity, maybe one of a kind!
@ Bazzar: Of course I can't predict how the market would react to the Helldiver, but I think this aircraft is very well known out there. I knew what a Helldiver was when I was eight years old and I'm not even american. There is something about the martial name itself, I guess. If it is pre-marketed correctly ( some nice preview videos, development threads and other bruhaha ) and is up to date with the quality that e.g. Vertigo or A2A (or others) deliver, IMHO there is no reason why it shouldn't be as successful like the SBD Dauntless. Look at the P36 from Vertigo, I never understand why they did that plane, but it's an immaculate job despite the rather uneventful (in my terms) aircraft and it is worth having for the quality alone.
Then add a nice and seldom or never realised gimmick in it like droppable bombs (that explode on impact :-) ) or working cannons, or a communicating gunner/navigator, then you have an addition that really puts it apart from the mass.
Maybe a scenery designer, who shall go unnamed here, will even built a FSX Phillipine 1944 or the Jima Islands scenario for it.
So, when's the release date???
Regarding the aircraft and the gunner: I never ceased to wonder how that gunner could hit anything behind that aircraft. I also wondered when I saw the cockpit layout of the Kingfisher, same thing.
Cheers,
Mark
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