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Offline Denholm

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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2009, 04:05:29 PM »
Now, that is just ignorant.

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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2009, 04:51:33 PM »

        lol,if I'm acting ignorant,would you mind telling me why they all want to come here to get away from their countries?
       
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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2009, 05:29:25 PM »
biplanes are move very well so it easy to dodge incomign fighters. They are slow also so it means the enemy would only have a second to fire. I will write more on it later. :salute

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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2009, 05:34:20 PM »

 :uhoh



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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #19 on: August 03, 2009, 01:42:50 PM »
Me thinks those who are not making a positive contribution to this thread need a timeout.
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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2009, 02:31:38 PM »
Sea planes would rock.

I would love to see the Pete, Kingfisher, PBY, or best yet the Kawanishi H8K, "Emily" just to name a few. The Emily had 5, 20mm guns!
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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2009, 02:41:16 PM »
PBY Catalina perhaps? Flyin' boat
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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #22 on: August 03, 2009, 02:58:54 PM »
Right now there's no need for scouting. So there isn't much use for a PBY aside from its small payload of bombs.
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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2009, 07:20:08 PM »
If i recall from what i saw on dogfights the a6m had a version with floats. Maybe that could be usefull....
Would seem my only decent plane

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« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2009, 07:53:54 PM »
The A6M2-N is what your talking about, as far as usefulness... just an over-weighted Zeke from what I've seen. Fly an A6M2 at 75% throttle for max and you'll get about the same effect I'd imagine.
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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2009, 08:02:43 PM »
The Swordfish was not a sea plane in that it had no float.

Some did....



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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2009, 08:52:26 PM »
The A6M2-N is what your talking about, as far as usefulness... just an over-weighted Zeke from what I've seen. Fly an A6M2 at 75% throttle for max and you'll get about the same effect I'd imagine.

Actually the Rufe's peformance wasn't degraded that much from the Zeke. It would prove effective against it's 1941/42 counterparts.

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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2009, 09:56:44 PM »
Actually the Rufe's peformance wasn't degraded that much from the Zeke. It would prove effective against it's 1941/42 counterparts.

That's actually rather surprising. I'm skeptical but I have nothing to back it up so I'll leave it at that.
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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #28 on: September 26, 2009, 10:00:00 PM »
I think seaplanes would be very usefull in the game.

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Seaplanes, flying boats, amphibious aircraft, what ever they are called...  
It would be nice to have representations of these types in Aces High.

I could imagine PBYs available only from ports and serving in roles similar to the C47.  Also, the Catalina did some anti-ship missions, so perhaps they could have a limited bombing role as well.

This is a bit of a stretch, but maybe you could pick up a downed pilot, to turn a captured into a rescued?

What else?

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Re: We need seaplanes!!!
« Reply #29 on: September 27, 2009, 07:19:54 AM »
That's actually rather surprising. I'm skeptical but I have nothing to back it up so I'll leave it at that.

You can find a few pages about the Rufe on the web. Of course it wasn't as nimble as the A6M2, but it was still effective until better Allied fighters became operational.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/japan/nakajima_a6m-n.php

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