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Offline Nemisis

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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #45 on: November 02, 2009, 08:47:46 PM »
Lol, I killed a C-47 doing that while on a gunship mission. And I guess you could argue that the ability to land and drop troops represents the transport part of the plane.
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #46 on: November 02, 2009, 08:53:25 PM »
Quote from: Nemisis on November 02, 2009, 08:47:46 PM
Lol, I killed a C-47 doing that while on a gunship mission. And I guess you could argue that the ability to land and drop troops represents the transport part of the plane.

While true, doing this in real life would prove much more difficult than in-game.  I realize this is in-fact, a game, and that there will be differences, but the fact that I can land anywhere I want just as easily as on a runway bugs me... :confused:
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #47 on: November 02, 2009, 08:58:40 PM »
Well provided it is on a nice, flat pice of ground, it could be ALMOST as easy. I think part of the problem is that there aren't the minute variations in the ground that flooded patch of ground, or a rock under the soil would create.
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #48 on: November 02, 2009, 09:10:44 PM »
ooh, ooh, ooh, make a goon with RATO's. :bolt:
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #49 on: November 02, 2009, 09:14:36 PM »
bad idea, the C-47's structural limit is so low, they could tear the wings off






J/K, IDK if they would, but if you put enough on then they might.
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #50 on: November 02, 2009, 10:32:49 PM »
There SHOULD be restrictions on how troops can drop. AFAIK, no C-47 ever delivered troops into battle by landing. To staging points? Maybe, but not while under fire.

Also, troops should NOT be able to drop when the Goon is looping and rolling all over (I know a lot of guys who will drop their troops in a 90 degree zoom). Goons should have to be flying straight and level to drop.
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #51 on: November 02, 2009, 10:46:18 PM »
Quote from: Saxman on November 02, 2009, 10:32:49 PM
There SHOULD be restrictions on how troops can drop. AFAIK, no C-47 ever delivered troops into battle by landing. To staging points? Maybe, but not while under fire.

Also, troops should NOT be able to drop when the Goon is looping and rolling all over (I know a lot of guys who will drop their troops in a 90 degree zoom). Goons should have to be flying straight and level to drop.

Tough call Saxman.  5th AF sure flew their goonies with supplies and troops into harms way throughout the fight up the New Guiniea coast.
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #52 on: November 02, 2009, 11:10:08 PM »
Yeah, but did they actually LAND in enemy-occupied territory?
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #53 on: November 02, 2009, 11:11:34 PM »

I think i remember seeing a c47 captured by the germans painted in german colors.

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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #54 on: November 02, 2009, 11:32:31 PM »
Quote from: Saxman on November 02, 2009, 11:10:08 PM
Yeah, but did they actually LAND in enemy-occupied territory?

Tiny bit off topic but...

The British put 6 Horsa gliders as close as 40 yards from their objective, Pegasus Bridge, in the dark, on D-Day.

I suppose if they considered C-47s and their crew expendable they would have used them as such.


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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #55 on: November 03, 2009, 07:22:17 PM »
I've got money says the russians would have concidered them expendable.
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #56 on: November 03, 2009, 10:05:28 PM »
The U.S. Navy R4D version of the C-47 carried two banks of JATO bottles, mounted nine or ten bottles per bank under the fuselage. Commander 'Trigger' Hawkes fired off the lot when he lifted R4D Que Sera Sera off the ice at the South Pole in order to free the undercarriage and get her rolling. The consort that had orbited overhead during that first, short visit reported that 'there was an explosion of flames, smoke and ice and that bird just took off and flew'. Only damage done was to one of the 'snow-shoe' plates fitted around the mainwheels - and the nerves of all who watched.

 :salute all 'Frozen Flyers' everywhere.

The C-47 gunship didn't appear until the early 1960s, when it was developed to take on the Vietcong. It was codenamed 'Spooky' or 'Puff the Magic Dragon'.
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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #57 on: November 04, 2009, 01:55:53 PM »
Quote from: Nemisis on November 02, 2009, 09:14:36 PM
bad idea, the C-47's structural limit is so low, they could tear the wings off


Here is a good story,

I was in a goon at 15k (dont ask why i was up there) and i dove on a con, eneded up compressing, pulled out and made a few more passes on him before i got bored.



J/K, IDK if they would, but if you put enough on then they might.
Here is a good story,

I was in a goon at 15k (dont ask why i was up there) and i dove on a con, eneded up compressing, pulled out and made a few more passes on him before i got bored.


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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #58 on: November 04, 2009, 01:58:57 PM »
Quote from: StokesAk on November 04, 2009, 01:55:53 PM
Here is a good story,

I was in a goon at 15k (dont ask why i was up there) and i dove on a con, eneded up compressing, pulled out and made a few more passes on him before i got bored.


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Re: C47 Update.
« Reply #59 on: November 04, 2009, 02:01:06 PM »
I was compressing no lie, i pulled out lightly and i reagined control without ripping my wings off.
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