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Offline AtmkRstr

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« Reply #30 on: November 08, 2002, 08:04:51 AM »
Why add more american (or even any allied) bombers when there's serious holes in AH's axis bomber selection?

There's only 2 axis multi engine bombers, isn't there?

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« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2002, 01:16:05 PM »
I agree with Atm, there are to few german bomber! bring the Heinkel H111 to Ah

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« Reply #32 on: November 11, 2002, 06:51:54 PM »
I'm working on it...(unofficially...). Here's where I'm at with it, with still a lot to do:


Update 12/13/02: added recessed wheelwells for all gear, added all gear parts; rolling wheels; steerable nosegear: working "snap-action" bomb bays with Mk17 and Mk6 bombs inside; retraction sequence for landing gear perfected; virtual cockpit in progress; flight model better, and still being tweaked. All that and still much to do.

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« Reply #33 on: November 12, 2002, 12:33:13 PM »
whgates, your 3rd picture (3rd of your picture) is a B-24, did they brizzeld em with guns to?

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« Reply #34 on: November 12, 2002, 01:14:13 PM »
looks like it - i see double turrets on top - that certainly was the point of the program anyway - but it went further w/ the B-17/B-40 i think...

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« Reply #35 on: November 26, 2002, 07:46:36 AM »
i read somthing it says that the B-36 bombed germony as the US nuked japan.:confused: :confused:

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« Reply #36 on: November 26, 2002, 08:14:48 AM »
Unlikely Corey - Germany had surrendered long before either of the A-bombs were dropped.

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« Reply #37 on: November 27, 2002, 03:54:07 PM »
hey biggles is that real i meen can you fly it.:confused:
if it is can you email it to me (i want to fly it):p :p :p
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« Reply #38 on: November 27, 2002, 04:01:46 PM »
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B-36 was introduced in 1948 i believe only 3 years remover from WWII, its not totally obsurd to add it to AH [/QUOTO]

Of course it is, this is a WWII sim, HTC isn't going to model post-WWII planes to put in it, then it would be a 'WWII and after' sim. [/B]


no its not, the US kept them ready in case the war started up again.:p :p :p

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« Reply #39 on: December 08, 2002, 05:31:39 PM »
HERE is a B36--1st delivered in '46...built till '54...never used in combat..could carry 86 THOUSAND pounds  (drool) of ordnance--obviously..they never altered them to carry non-nukes..else they might have been put to use in korea
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« Reply #40 on: December 08, 2002, 05:34:12 PM »
another view
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« Reply #41 on: December 09, 2002, 07:35:27 AM »
what was the improvement by placing the engines backwards?

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« Reply #42 on: December 09, 2002, 10:02:12 AM »
Did they used it for any bomb run ??
Or was it just a hanger Quen ?
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« Reply #43 on: December 09, 2002, 10:07:44 AM »
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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.


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« Reply #44 on: December 09, 2002, 12:28:15 PM »
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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.


And, at least according to a conversation I had several years ago with Gunther Rall, Luftwaffe officers were required to resign membership in any political party, including the NSDAP. A military regulation that was intended to eliminate political affiliation as an issue for leadership and promotion, as I recall.

I doubt that I would be able to say the same to many veterans of SS units, but I told Gunther Rall, Walter Schuck, and the other German aces and veterans who attended the 'Gathering of Eagles' event that I attended that, while I couldn't respect the regime that sent them to war, they fought for their country and did their duty to the best of their ability, and I respected them for their skill and dedication, particularly considering the odds that they had to face as the war continued.