Author Topic: What's the biggest thing you can take off a deck? (Read 508 times)

Epsilon 5 · « **on:** September 23, 2002, 03:28:42 AM »

Always trying to get bigger, I was wondering of people were better than me.

After many tries, I can take off a Lancaster with 50% fuel and 6000lb worth of bomb load off a carrier. the tail almost touch the water, but I can make it.

No that it's witout any headwind, other than the fact that the carrier is gonig at 35mph.

BTW - I can land anythig on a deck, given I have enough concentration. However it's hard to land and stay in the reload zone, but hey, I already landed a c47 on the reload zone, nothing bigger yet.

Epsilon 5 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:31:49 AM »

You can have a cookie if you can count all the typos I made in my previous post

hogenbor · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2002, 06:19:18 AM »

Just out of curiosity, how did you get a Lancaster ON a carrier? You actually LANDED it??? I wonder if the Brits ever tried that one...

Imp · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2002, 06:22:24 AM »

Offline you can enable any plane at any field.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2002, 07:26:51 AM »

Well AH is more realistic than RL...

jonnyb · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2002, 12:54:14 PM »

I watched TheFatz land a lancaster on a carrier. I managed to get an arado down and back up again. I regularly land and launch ponies from the CV deck....I haven't tried getting a lanc/b17 up yet.

vorticon · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2002, 01:10:51 PM »

snoopy22 and bendover can take a lancaster off deck with 50% feul load. they just slip to end of carrier (unrealistic thing about ah physics start only 1 engine and run it slow you slide backwards) and zoom off.

personaly i managed t oactually keep a panzer on a moving cv once (funny as hell i just got going fast enough before i slid bellybutton backwards into the water)

i take c47s off with 100% fuel all the time

Epsilon 5 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2002, 01:12:46 PM »

I could never take off with a lanc off a deck after landing .. I can never brake fast enough not to travel half the deck on landing .. and I'm not a MA player, not enough money for that (although I'm paying for jumpgate

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Of course taking off with a lanc, b17 or c47 requires you to slide left of the deck, do you won'T crash a wing on the tower

Actually, some of the smaller bombers are tougher to fly off the deck than the bigger ones. Lotsa trouble doing it with a b26 or ar234 It's easier with a b17 than those.

vorticon · « **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2002, 01:19:21 PM »

actually u can take off from the carrier without doing anywthing with the c47 just keep flaps up till you pass the tower on the cv then drop flaps 3 notches and you can keep up after you fall off the end of the cv.

Innominate · « **Reply #9 on:** September 24, 2002, 12:00:23 AM »

I once did four bombing runs in one sortie in a b26. Took off from an airfield, bombed, and reloaded three more times from a nearby carrier. Lot of fun landing a b26 on a CV.

Try this offline:
Set the wind on the deck to a 127mph headwind.
Take off in anything.
Regain control of the plane, and try and land on the CV.
Once you're close to landing(your wheels dont need to be on the deck) turn on auto-level, zero your throttle.
Now shut down your engine.

mora · « **Reply #10 on:** September 25, 2002, 01:12:14 PM »

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Originally posted by vorticon
snoopy22 and bendover can take a lancaster off deck with 50% feul load. they just slip to end of carrier (unrealistic thing about ah physics start only 1 engine and run it slow you slide backwards) and zoom off.

You can do that in any plane and you dont need to use 1 engine, just a little bit of throttle. That only releases parking brake I think, nothing wrong with physics in this case.

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 25, 2002, 01:50:04 PM »

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Originally posted by Innominate

Set the wind on the deck to a 127mph headwind.
Take off in anything.

Yeah no toejam, you can launch the space shuttle at JFK w/o SRB in a 127mph headwind

The biggest thing I got off the deck was my girlfriend's drunk-as-all-hell Mom at the O-Club at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI at a wedding reception back in 1987.

Does THAT count?

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 25, 2002, 01:58:52 PM »

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Originally posted by mora
just a little bit of throttle.

2100 RPM will do the trick. Rolls backwards and it's not a bug.

Summer 2001, I was allowed ,to witness the restoration the P-51C Redtail, and the Dancing Daisy (P-51D) was winding up in between two airplane hangars for some mechanical work being done on her....a strong wind came through, and the pony floated off the ground, in place, with only the engine turning over at idle. Talk about aerodynamics!!!!

Well, that mechanic executed an emergency shutdown faster than ANY AH clown about to get vulched by an incoming la-7..that for sure

frank3 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 25, 2002, 02:54:30 PM »

man, I'm already proud of myself when I take off in a F4U from the Carrier

superpug1 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 25, 2002, 06:33:12 PM »

Certain people have the great pug take off and land B-17s, C-47s, 262s and others on a cv. I can pin a 17 right on top of the reloading spot on a cv. Though i can get anything off a cv, it is sadly with a limmited bomb load or fuel.
this does add a heavy strike potential to a cv group but only at a limmeted range.

I am NOT bragging. I know that no matter how good I am there are others that are alot better.

-superpug
<=====[---+ long live the sword of me.