Stash a plane on a CV, plus repairs please!

[XxDaSTaRxx]

All I did was wall the throttle and give just enough rudder so my right wing didnt clip the island.  I dropped the flaps right around when I passed the island and and other than making sure the nose was up before my wheels left the deck it wasn't terribly difficult. Were you using a B25H?

I was using the 25H, yes.

[Franz Von Werra]

This is probably how...
1) Spawn on the CV... or land on it...
2) Back up the plane, by the method in previous posted, to the very back of the CV, and stop just before your back wheels fall off the side (to get max runway length).
3) Hold spacebar (for full brakes) and then throttle up to max, including WEP if the plane has it.
4) Suddenly release the brakes... (kinda slingshots plane, at least you don't lose runway length waiting for engine to 'catch up' to full throttle.)
5) I guess we need to hit the left rudder a tad to miss the island...
6) Just before the end of the runway (front of the CV), drop full flaps...

The idea is to get as much speed as you possibly can and then drop flaps at the last moment to buy time to get even more speed once you are airborne...
Don't drop flaps at start of take off because they will reduce your speed!
AND check your trims, turn off combat trim, all three trims should be manually centered (combat-trim gets a mind of its own sometimes, inefficiency can cause loss of precious speed.)

editing again... might as well back the plane up to the back left corner, that way there is no need to tap the left rudder to miss the island...

[MK-84]

Waiting until right before you leave the deck to drop flaps is not going to be effective for most planes as they take time to deploy.

[Franz Von Werra]

True that, and that's part of the piloting, or using 'the force' heh, knowing when to say when (to drop the flaps)!

[Ack-Ack]

Seems like Schlowy has been saving years worth of stupid wishes

ack-ack

[Arlo]

Moon .... base.

[jeffdn]

Waiting until right before you leave the deck to drop flaps is not going to be effective for most planes as they take time to deploy.

They take time to deploy graphically and sound wise, but my understanding is that when you raise or lower flaps a notch, they have an immediate effect on the flight characteristics of your plane.

[MK-84]

They take time to deploy graphically and sound wise, but my understanding is that when you raise or lower flaps a notch, they have an immediate effect on the flight characteristics of your plane.

You are correct!  However most planes have multistage flaps and although you gain an instant effect when each stage deploys it takes time to move from one stage to the next.
If you try taking off with a B25C from a CV and drop full flaps once you pass the island the last stage (full flaps) only starts to deploy right around when your wheels leave the deck.

[Lone82]

All I did was wall the throttle and give just enough rudder so my right wing didnt clip the island.  I dropped the flaps right around when I passed the island and and other than making sure the nose was up before my wheels left the deck it wasn't terribly difficult. Were you using a B25H?

I land B17's, rearm/refuel and reup of CV. Not that hard. Have also saw merlin land B29 on one but it's too wide to reup

[Franz Von Werra]

So uhh, where's his drones? Will drones land or crash themselves out?

[Lone82]

So uhh, where's his drones? Will drones land or crash themselves out?

Didn't bring them. But I know the B17's drones will land on the water

[Armkreuz]

I know that it was not a common occurrence in WW2, but Doolittle flew a whole squadron of B-25's off the Aircraft Carrier Hornet to attack Tokyo.

[Arlo]

I know that it was not a common occurrence in WW2, but Doolittle flew a whole squadron of B-25's off the Aircraft Carrier Hornet to attack Tokyo.

You're new so you probably don't know that the majority of AHII forum
members are well aware of this well-known historical event and that
we've seen it brought up often. Usually as a thread in the wishlist to
add the B-25 to the list of aircraft that can be spawned off the CV. Asking
for a constant based on a 'one-off' (The Dolittle Raid) or 'almost' (109T
with arresting gear intact) is going to end up no more than a theoretical
discussion in the wishlist forum. The OP's wish is a more complicated
version of stocking a CV with planes that don't spawn there.

Here's another instance of a plane that was tested for carrier use that
doesn't warrant modeling in AHII:



P-51d 'Seahorse'

[SilverZ06]

Am I completely losing my mind or was there actually a time not too long ago that you could actually take a b-25 off the carrier? I swear I remember it but it may have been just a dream. 

[Armkreuz]

 I understand that. I know this wish would never happen. As it shouldn't. The point I was making was that even though flying bombers off of an aircraft carrier is nothing you want to include in this game. I just wanted to bring up the fact Doolittle had done it (even though everyone supposedly knows that). Although it may be unfeasible to do, it has been done and it wasn't stupid. You know it seems that no matter what thread I check out on this site, most of the comments toward those who are brave enough to put their ideas out there just get slapped around and belittled. I like to hear all ideas.