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Offline RTHolmes

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #90 on: November 05, 2010, 05:16:28 PM »
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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #91 on: November 05, 2010, 06:07:01 PM »
he missed the 3 formations total .

geez dude...

1 plane = 40 bombs
3 planes (a formation) = 120 bombs
9 planes (3 formations) = 360 bombs

You didn't know when to stop multiplying.
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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #92 on: November 05, 2010, 06:47:34 PM »
duh.. wow your right i really miss calculated

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #93 on: November 07, 2010, 10:40:45 AM »
I just wonder if Hitech is going to make the B-29 pressurized in the game like it was in real life. Enough bullet holes could cause loss of cabin pressure and then your pilot starts to black out.  :joystick:
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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #94 on: November 07, 2010, 10:51:56 AM »
IIRC they still used oxygen masks for those sorts of emergencies....
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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #95 on: November 07, 2010, 11:30:22 AM »
I'm not sure if we model low pressure blackouts though........  Not all of our unpressurized birds have problems getting up to 30k.  And there are countless stories from cold, light headed pilots from this era.....  As Saxman points the emergency procedure, I would want to assume that our little guys do the same thing.   :aok

I just wonder if Hitech is going to make the B-29 pressurized in the game like it was in real life. Enough bullet holes could cause loss of cabin pressure and then your pilot starts to black out.  :joystick:
IIRC they still used oxygen masks for those sorts of emergencies....
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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #96 on: November 07, 2010, 06:53:55 PM »
I just wonder if Hitech is going to make the B-29 pressurized in the game like it was in real life. Enough bullet holes could cause loss of cabin pressure and then your pilot starts to black out.  :joystick:

The B-29 was to de-pressurize before going into combat. Rapid decompression would cause all kinds of medical problems for the crew.

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #97 on: November 07, 2010, 07:28:57 PM »
Would the B-29 absorb small caliber rounds? like a B-27 would?
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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #98 on: November 07, 2010, 08:39:04 PM »
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No I feel a little like you on that i'd much rather aim my guns,im sure I could do it better than a computer could.

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #99 on: November 08, 2010, 12:27:56 PM »

No I feel a little like you on that i'd much rather aim my guns,im sure I could do it better than a computer could.

you may think you can but you can't. 

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #100 on: November 09, 2010, 08:06:17 PM »
Yes im sure I could,why do I say that you might ask?

I hear squeaks over the computer already,"WhAAA WhAAA the com com computer is way to accurate WhAAA WhAAA".

Then after like say 600-800 squeaks htc will lower the computer accuracy to make them be quiet.

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #101 on: November 09, 2010, 08:59:29 PM »
Yes im sure I could,why do I say that you might ask?

I hear squeaks over the computer already,"WhAAA WhAAA the com com computer is way to accurate WhAAA WhAAA".

Then after like say 600-800 squeaks htc will lower the computer accuracy to make them be quiet.

No, you'll never aim or fire a gun more accurately then a computer controlled system.  Like I said, you may think you can but you really can't.

Your example isn't a very good one because you unintentionally prove me correct.  Why would squeakers whine?  Because the computer controlled firing system is too accurate and want it toned down to levels where is isn't so accurate.  If you were as accurate, if not more so, then there would be no cries to have the computer controlled firing system accuracy toned down.

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #102 on: November 10, 2010, 12:50:10 AM »
I can feel a Star Wars quote coming.

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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #103 on: November 10, 2010, 06:30:42 PM »
Why wouldn't it? At those climb rates; it seems totally logical. Or are you saying you do not have the patience to climb to 20k?

He probably does not. 
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Re: B-29A - Loading and Performance for a typical mission
« Reply #104 on: November 12, 2010, 12:22:29 AM »
The B-29 was to de-pressurize before going into combat. Rapid decompression would cause all kinds of medical problems for the crew.

Or this http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/88356/sn/1255110280/name/Krantz+dangling.jpg


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