PBY-5A

[IrishOne]

People trying to attack a CV with a PBY will only find themselves with a one way ticket to ManaWar's kill club.

ack-ack

oh gawd.   

[olds442]

Alright I know that this has been said before but the PBY was one of the most important planes of the war. It could carry troops and be a new transport plus it had light defenive armament so it would have some protection.

Also the PBY was known to go on bombing missions and could carry 4000Ib of bombs. Now i know 4000 isnt a heavy load but it should be able to take off from ports NOT from CV like some people say.

Now MANY people want it to rescue pilots and I know this was its primary role but that idea seems impractical for this game and I do not think that should be added for sake of saving HTC from having to figure out how that would work and people never doing it.
<S> Just thought that this really would be important

[DemonFox]

Well I gave it a shot for this old bird. Guess you guys really just don't want it.
But that doesn't mean a guy cant dream for future patches.

<S> To all. Even all your great pilots against me.

[gyrene81]

olds should watch where he's tossing rocks, i think i'll dig around and show demonfox the links to some of olds seriously lame wishes...    and a couple were very big stinkers.

it's not a bad wish...justification is a little off reality though...considering even the slowest early war wwii plane in game now is faster than the pby by ~50mph it just could not be competitive enough to be used and no one enjoys being caught low and low in any airplane...the just pby doesn't offer any choice...may as well fly a dr1 in the late war arena and be done with it.

[DemonFox]

Hehe while you fly your WWI plane I'll be like Dirk Pitt in my PBY 

I don't know why but I just LOVE the PBY and think that it's deficets would be overcome by some pilots. By no means am I saying I'm going to fly into a base at 5K with enemy fighter cover but I think it would be fun at 9-10K over a base. That no one is protecting.

I think it has to do  with the fact that I've seen them landing around me so often. (I live on an island)

[olds442]

olds should watch where he's tossing rocks, i think i'll dig around and show demonfox the links to some of olds seriously lame wishes...    and a couple were very big stinkers.

it's not a bad wish...justification is a little off reality though...considering even the slowest early war wwii plane in game now is faster than the pby by ~50mph it just could not be competitive enough to be used and no one enjoys being caught low and low in any airplane...the just pby doesn't offer any choice...may as well fly a dr1 in the late war arena and be done with it.

[matt]

PBY-5A  with supps and troops, navy frogman swim and run for base captures.

[Krusty]

"If" ever added to this game it would not have troops, supplies, or frogmen.

It was not a transport. It was not a cargo hauler. It was a long range long duration recon plane.

[Ack-Ack]

"If" ever added to this game it would not have troops, supplies, or frogmen.

It was not a transport. It was not a cargo hauler. It was a long range long duration recon plane.

Actually, if ever added to the game having a selection to carry 10 troops or be able to carry supplies should be an option.  While not the primary use of the PBY, the PBY were used to ferry raiding parties behind enemy lines quite frequently.  Units such as teh Army's famous "Alamo Scouts" used PBYs to drop their long range recce parties (comprising from 10 to 14 men) behind enemy lines as well as the joint services "Special Service Unit #1" (before being disbanded and redesignated solely as a naval unit, 7th Amphibious Scouts).

PBYs were also used to ferry supplies to these men whenever possible in addition to resupplying coast watchers.

Of course, if we ever do get the PBY, beer bottles better be one of the ordnance packages as it was a favorite of the Black Cats to drop during their nightly harassment raids.

ack-ack

[Dragon Tamer]

Didn't the PBY have a tendancy to explode?

[gyrene81]

Didn't the PBY have a tendancy to explode?

ok...i'll bite only because i'm intrigued by the source of your question...where did you see/hear that?

[matt]

well if PBY-5 did military ops such as droping troops and supps during ww2
it might be a option to add sometime.. something different

[Dragon Tamer]

ok...i'll bite only because i'm intrigued by the source of your question...where did you see/hear that?

I stated it as a question because I wasn't 100% sure, but I heard somewhere that one of the American seaplanes during the war tended to blow up mid flight.  I recall hearing "The pilots called them Flying Gas Tanks" or something to that effect.

[Ack-Ack]

Didn't the PBY have a tendancy to explode?

not a tendency but a very real risk.  Gas vapor from the fuel tanks would get into the cabin area, which could cause the plane to explode if any of the electrical system experienced a short or from frayed wires.  It was also why PBY crews were advised (though largely ignored) not to smoke while in flight to lessen the risk of an in-flight exposion due to build up of gas vapors in the cabin.

The PBM Mariner also suffered from this problem, most famously examplified by mi-air explosion of the PBM that was tasked to search for Flight 19 that had disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.

ack-ack

[DemonFox]

  I could see it now cruising along in my PBY and my radio fails. BAM!!! No more PBY 

Now I saw someone post for a Sub and that would be a great reason for the PBY! I wanna depth charge a U-boat!!!!