B-29

[Sachs]

Originally posted by ShaunMcL:
It ended the war with a nuke on japan.
Its an essential plane.
P.S VIP very important plane

YUp its a good thing all those troops and airmen died for nothing huh?  Took one plane to finish the war   This plane is not essential and it should not be a priority.  Other countries need to be represented better, and I am all for putting it at the bottom of the list.

[Archangel114]

The F2G was a Corsair that had a bubble canopy and a new engine. Its original R-2800 radial was replaced by an R-4360 radial engine that produced 3000 HP w/out using the Emergency Power. It was used to hunt kamikazi fighters at low altitudes.

-Chris-

[Arlo]

Give the Italian planeset a buff. Sparviero is my pick (under contention as the best med. bomber of the war) but anything'll do.  Japanese need the Betty for that matter. Russians could use something more than a Sturmie. German planeset could use something other than the JU-88. Brits got the Lanc and Mossie, that planeset's doing ok. Yanks got the Fortress and the Maurader, it's ok as well.

 That puts the Superfortress a lower on the list .... well, my list anyway. Besides, I'd go for the Liberator first anyway. It actually saw action in both the European and Pacific theaters and had an alternate anti shipping version for the navy. The there's the Mitchell which was not only active in both theaters but used by many allied air forces.

 I love it when people ask for nuke-droppin B-29s in a WWII combat simulator based on the historical accuracy and importance of the craft. There were more T-6 Texans built than B-29s and tons of pilots were trained in one so that makes it much more important that the B-29. Let's model the Texan.

[shaunmcl]

add the b29 or else

[Arlo]

[fdiron]

I think the B29 cannot be modeled properly in AH.  Here is why.  While the B29 was a "super bomber" on paper, it had many many flaws.  One of its major flaws was the engines caught fire.  This was not worked out until the (B50?).  The B29 also had problems with its landing gear.  More B29s were lost to mechanical malfunctions than to enemy fire.  Also, depending on the version of b29 implemented, the defensive firepower would be absolutely astounding.  I've seen pictures of B29s with as many as 4 .50 caliber machine guns in the front top turret alone.

[Archangel114]

That'd bring a whole new dimension to fighter combat. Plow your B-29 through a furball shooting down enemy aircraft. That'd be one really big gunship, lol.

Speaking of gunships, wasn't there one that was designed/being designed to specifically escort B-17's?

-Chris-

[SageFIN]

He he, imagine how far you could develop ackstarring and stratobuffing with that bird  .

[chunder']

The B-29 was usually equipped with 12 50cals (4 in fwd upper turret; 2 in fwd lower, rear upper, rear lower, and tail turrets) and one 20mm cannon in the tail.  Excluding the 20mm cannon, it isn't any more heavily armed than the current B-17 we have.  Its main advantages over the B-17 are its higher speed and much larger bomb load.  As stated earlier, the B-29 was prone to engine fires.  On the issue of inability to model it properly in AH, there are aircraft already included that benefit from the lack of RL flaws/problems (N1K engine unreliability & weak landing gear, P-38 turbo fires & prop runaway, etc).

PS, the B-17 gunship was the YB-40.

[Ball]

[nirvana]

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P.S.  I hope you have your suit of armour on Ball, I think I hear the whistle of the mighty Skuzz Train coming through town...

[tedrbr]

Holy Zombie B-29 Threads from the Dead, Batman!

[Masherbrum]

[Rino]

Think Ball gonna get a quick visit from the mighty Skuzzilla!

[Pyro]

Ball, keep this up and you will be playing Gasim to my Lawrence of Arabia.