Open the card and place it on a desk or firm surface. The map with the 3D aircraft must be visible.
Open the Cyberboardz App on your cell phone (by pressing the icon on the desk) and press the Start AR button
Point your cell phone on the right side of the map. The aircraft will appear hovering over the card. The aircraft will show larger or smaller depending on how far the cell phone is from the card. A good distance is between 6 and 12 inches.
The Application allows you to inspect the aircraft from any angle, similar to a plastic or die-cast model. In addition, you can fire the guns, hear the sounds, watch the propeller turning, and see the pilot inside the cockpit flying his fighter!
The Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 and the Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia
We have plans for 30 more models in both Europe and the Pacific theaters of war. We plan to cover several periods of WWII (1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944)
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The Score Card takes into consideration eleven of the most important characteristics a fighter needs to be successful in combat. Each characteristic was weighted to arrive at a single score for the fighter. The higher the score, the better the aircraft.
The algorithm does NOT use a 1 to 10 score. Values lower and higher than 10 are possible. A benchmark aircraft, the Bf 109 F-2, was given a 10 in each characteristic. Any other model is compared against the benchmark and a value higher (if it was better) or smaller (if its performance was worse) than 10 is given using a formula to grade the gap (for each characteristic).
This approach allows adding any fighter to the data set, even those not initially contemplated in the plan.
The eleven characteristics were selected based on two criteria: (a) objective data was available and (b) they were recognized as very important by test pilots.
Note that range was not included because it was assumed that the fighter had enough fuel to reach the combat area and face an adversary.
Diving acceleration is very important in combat but it was not included because objective data was not available for most aircraft in the data set.
It is assumed that the pilot was of equivalent experience/training in every case. Pilot quality was decisive in any engagement.
There is more information in the blog under Fighter Evaluation Card