Author Topic: B-36 Peacemaker (Read 770 times)

corey · « **on:** October 22, 2002, 07:51:03 PM »

would it be cool if we had the B-36 PEACEMAKER

Puke · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2002, 07:55:29 PM »

There would be no peace in the MA if we did have them.

cobra427 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 22, 2002, 07:59:46 PM »

whooooo hoooo bring it on ... il love to fly bombers ....... or the advanced b17 that never was produced ...with 30 .50cals was made to escort other bombers but ended up to slow when the bombers droped the bombs (it didnt carry bombs)

Innominate · « **Reply #3 on:** October 22, 2002, 08:18:19 PM »

Yea lets add a b36,
That way I can have a basis to ask for the A-10.

Glasses · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2002, 09:01:47 PM »

Call me ignorant but wasn't the B-36 a cold war bomber hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mm?

Yes I thought so.

paulieb · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2002, 09:45:41 PM »

Ok, then how about the B-29?

NOD2000 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 22, 2002, 10:27:50 PM »

cobra ur thinking about the YB-40 and yah it only had like 20 .50's and a ton more ammo accually they were used alot over the war........not in bombing missions but used as stragglers to attracked captured p-38's and P-51's and P-47's and shoot em down i got three of 4 stories in one of my books about it..........

captured american planes would fly beside forts for a while then attack them when most unsespected........ so thats when a YB-40 was sent out to look like a straggler.......and would shoot down captured planes

got to love a 17 accually shooting down 38's 51's and 47's and a couple spits..........

no reason y it shouldn't be implimented into AH all it was was a exteramly modified B-17F.......accually the YB-40 is the reason y the chin turrent was added to the nexct version of the for the B-17G which is what we have.........

Innominate · « **Reply #7 on:** October 22, 2002, 10:47:51 PM »

nod, this is a BBS, not a chat room.

Punctuation and spelling count. You can't expect someone to bother reading your post if it takes extra effort, much less take it seriously.

NOD2000 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 22, 2002, 11:02:23 PM »

hmmmmmmmm.............sorry but u dyslexic dysgraphic (misslabled ocd) add and have motor problems along with goin blind......nooooooo don't think u do.........accually i'm d* shure of it just read it and make as much sense out of it as u can

for laymen B17+extra .50's + ammo = YB-40

YB-40 = shooting down P-38's P-47's P-51's flown by Nazi's and a couple of spits that were captured and flown to be used against USAF bombers got it? good..... if ur a english teacher i say piss off and if ur not then its non of ur buissness how i type

Viper17 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 22, 2002, 11:47:41 PM »

It personaly realy ticks me off. They wern't all Nazis. I think they were German the whole time. Nazism and Facism are just political offiliations. Would you call my grandfather a Nazi just because he was in the Luftwaffe? Fighting for his country not for Hitler. Shooting down brits bombing his home of Berlin. Him and his 110. alone in the sky. He had to kill 7 men. It was ether a lanc or a halifax but he hated himself for doing that till he died in 96. ~~Grandpa.~~

whgates3 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 22, 2002, 11:57:37 PM »

why not wait for a B-29 1st...B-36 development started in WWII, but it wasn't an operational plane 'til '46 or '47 - plus it would outrun anything except the 262...B-45 (22000 lbs of bombs, 570 MPH) development started in WWII too...

funkedup · « **Reply #11 on:** October 23, 2002, 12:23:08 AM »

If the USA had been losing the war, B-36 would have seen plenty of action like all of the German late war wonders.

whgates3 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 23, 2002, 01:48:04 AM »

i wonder if there was an intercontinental escort fighter in the works too

wklink · « **Reply #13 on:** October 23, 2002, 03:32:41 AM »

That wasn't the original idea for the YB-40.

Originally they were looking for some kind of high powered defense for B-17 raids into Germany. It was thought that if they took a B-17F, add a bunch of guns to it and use it as a flying flak tower they might be able to get more punch against enemy fighters.

It really didn't work though. The YB40's would fly with the B-17s into the target just fine but when they turned for home the B-17s would be lighter, and therefore faster than the YB 40's. Either the B-17 formations would have to slow down to allow the YB 40's to keep up or the heavily armed YB's would be left behind. Although they were flying porcupines they were still vulnerable and were shot down if left alone.

I don't think they really advanced beyond 1944, where they really weren't needed anyway. The arrival of long distance fighter escort pretty much negated their need.

NOD2000 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 23, 2002, 07:45:24 AM »

yah i know that was there original purpose..........but in 44 and 45 they were sent out to take care of USAF and RAF planes that had been captured and were being used to shoot down strageling bombers that thought they were goin to get escort back home..........there were about 20-30 missions that a couple YB-40's would be called on specifically................. ... and sorry about that imnonate u caught me in the worst possible mood last night............what topped it off was a cheating host..."eyeless" to be exact.......i got 5 kills in a 109e-4 then i shot some far away 7.9mm's just to get his attenchion and then the guy turned on KS then he got on my tail turned KS off and tried to kill me, so i did a quick loop with some barrel rolls at the top to throw him off as he tried to come up to me. as he stalled i came back around on him and finished him off.........right after i got the kill message for him i said "serves u right for doin KS like that" then i get host connection lost he just booted me...........

but its always fun to shoot down spit 14's in a 109e-4 expecially when there cheating:D