The Aeronca L-3 GrassHopper

[atom360]

It can be our first observation and liaison aircraft were used by the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. It can be piloted and the other passenger takes pictures (like a spy plane) and what I'm thinking that this plane will collect data on CVs, airfields and more and the pictures will be posted in the tower or the Club and it will take time for the pictures to come like 10-15*.      
                                                                                     


HERE ARE SOME STATS                                                           *not the exact time(only a guess)

               General characteristics
              Crew: 2: pilot, observer
             Length: 21 ft 10 in (6.67 m)
           Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m)
            Height: 9 ft 1 in (2.74 m)
            Wing area: 169 ft² (15.6 m²)
           Empty weight: 835 lb (379 kg)
           Loaded weight: 1,260 lb (572 kg)
    Powerplant: 1 × Continental O-170-3 OR a Continental O-65-8 flat-4 engine, 65 hp (48 kW)
             
                  Performance
       Maximum speed: 87 mph (76 kn, 139 km/h)
       Cruise speed: 79 mph (69 kn, 126 km/h)
       Stall speed: 46 mph (40 kn, 73 km/h)
        Range: 218 mi (189 nmi, 350 km)
        Service ceiling: 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
        Wing loading: 7.45 lb/ft² (36.1 kg/m²)
         Power/mass: .051 hp/lb (85 W/kg)

[FBCrabby]

-1 We already have spies for that

[Lusche]

A grass hopper flying into enemy airspace to take pictures of airfields.

Two questions arise:

1. What would that pictures help? I have pictures of all of them on my clipboard already. And everybody playing for more than a day quickly knows the layout by memory...
2. What are the chances of an unarmed 87mph plane to get home with the pics at all? 

[MAINER]

would rather have a piper l-4 or a stinson l-5

[atom360]

A grass hopper flying into enemy airspace to take pictures of airfields.

Two questions arise:

1. What would that pictures help? I have pictures of all of them on my clipboard already. And everybody playing for more than a day quickly knows the layout by memory...
2. What are the chances of an unarmed 87mph plane to get home with the pics at all? 

"It will COLLECT data" from the ships etc and the airfields so we can do a bombrun or look at how the towns look like...i don't know if it is a REALLY bad choice we jest need spyplanes.

[gyrene81]

"It will COLLECT data" from the ships etc and the airfields so we can do a bombrun or look at how the towns look like...i don't know if it is a REALLY bad choice we jest need spyplanes.

got plenty of those already included...just look at the list of airplanes in the hangar and pick one. all of them are faster than 87mph, can fly from 100ft to 30,000+ ft...not to mention almost all of them have the ability to defend themselves.

if you really want to fly low and slow, grab your plane of choice and cut the throttle back until it's just above stall. problem solved.

[Reaper90]

+1 for the plne but -1 for the role

I've asked for this in the past, but would like to see it enabled from the large hanger on GV bases, to scout for GVs when the nest airfield is a long flight away..... kind of a FAC role.

YES, you'd be easy meat for a wirble, but the value is there for the tankers and guys in manned guns.

Also, allow the pilot to have to .45 like the guy in the chute does, so you could DA these guys, and shoot at each other out of the window, cowboy gunfight style!

[atom360]

Then what about the Fi-182 stork....

[gyrene81]

Then what about the Fi-182 stork....

how easily could it be shot down with a .30 or .50 cal machine gun? be better off with a stinson l-1 vigilant...

why not just ask for a couple of the wwi biplanes to be enabled at the gv and ship bases? same chances of survivability...

[colmbo]

I've asked for this in the past, but would like to see it enabled from the large hanger on GV bases, to scout for GVs when the nest airfield is a long flight away..... kind of a FAC role.

+1 for the role.  Any of the Liaison planes work work for this.  And should we ever get artillery in the game...you have a spotter.

[Megalodon]

but would like to see it enabled from the large hanger on GV bases, to scout for GVs when the nest airfield is a long flight away..... kind of a FAC role.

YES, you'd be easy meat for a wirble, but the value is there for the tankers and guys in manned guns.

Also, allow the pilot to have to .45 like the guy in the chute does, so you could DA these guys, and shoot at each other out of the window, cowboy gunfight style!

A Boomerang would do that well, not so easy meat and have a little smoke to toss out  ....a far better  plane to get!


Or jump out of the plane and run into enemy map room?

I would agree w/a small dirt runway at GV fields w/rarmpad. I mean....These thing are in the middle of nowhere how do you get to them? Got to fly there right?

[Reaper90]

A Boomerang would do that well, not so easy meat and have a little smoke to toss out   ....a far better  plane to get!


Or jump out of the plane and run into enemy map room?

I would agree w/a small dirt runway at GV fields w/rarmpad. I mean....These thing are in the middle of nowhere how do you get to them? Got to fly there right?

Yes, but the Boomerang was a fighter technically, not an observation/FAC bird...


And firewall the throttle in one of these while in the big hanger on a GV base and you'd be airborn before you hit the grass:



Runway? We don't need no stinking runway!

[guncrasher]

See Rule #4

[atom360]

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions I HOPE WE GET A SPYPLANE! 

 

[TheRhino]

I honestly think that the only way that spyplanes could be useful is if clipboard maps would be removed, and there are secret strategic targets scattered all over the map that randomly place themselves somewhere else everytime the arena reboots that do not appear on the clipboard. I don't see that happening anytime soon. I'm just saying, but I'd love to actually see this myself