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Offline Beefcake

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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #75 on: July 28, 2011, 05:50:04 PM »
Every Lancaster I have seen carpet bombing GVs in AH has either been level or in a shallow dive.  I have never seen one doing anything even approaching a 30 degree dive.

I don't know if this 30 degrees or not but I dove as steep as I could without ripping the wings off.  :D  :t



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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #76 on: July 28, 2011, 07:26:05 PM »
That looks like 10-20 degrees to me, Beefcake.
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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #77 on: July 28, 2011, 08:51:30 PM »
not exactly "dive bombing" :headscratch:

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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #78 on: July 29, 2011, 05:17:42 AM »
just take away GV-icons for 4-engined bombers - SOLVED

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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #79 on: July 29, 2011, 03:02:05 PM »
Hate to break it to you, but this is NOT a WWII simulator.
Well it sure as heck ain't no Viet-Nam war simulator  :confused:
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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #80 on: July 29, 2011, 03:44:49 PM »
Furballers vs bnz'ers.  Simmers vs. gamers.  Landgrabbers vs. furballers.  Buffs vs. fighters.  Arenas vs. arenas.  A2G vs. A2A.  Chess-piecers vs. migrants.

But tankers vs. buffs???

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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #81 on: July 29, 2011, 04:25:57 PM »
Well it sure as heck ain't no Viet-Nam war simulator  :confused:

A WW2 simulator would SIMULATE the experience of a pilot, going through training, formup, long missions with no rest, seconds of excitement, following historic WW2 profiles, matching historic WW2 missions. You would be stuck in a small selection of planes most of the war and progress through it as if you personally were a real WW2 pilot.

This is not a WW2 simulator. It is a combat simulator. We have the weapons of WW2, and we use those weapons in our own ways. Sometimes they overlap with historical uses, and sometimes they do not.

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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #82 on: July 29, 2011, 05:58:52 PM »
Ok I just did this in the MA a few minutes ago. Would this be considered dive bombing or do I need to get a steeper angle?



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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #83 on: July 29, 2011, 06:50:56 PM »
You need a much steeper angle to be dive bombing, in my opinion.  That is a pretty good slope bombing run though.
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Re: Lancstuka...the data no one bothered to look up
« Reply #84 on: July 29, 2011, 07:13:21 PM »
Single 500 lb bomb from a single B-26:







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