Getting Dweeby

[Sixpence]

One lanc formation travels under dar to take down radar for the whole country. Has been doing it all night. 163 too far away(not to mention the mountain in the way), yet the HQ is sea level. I tell ya what, if one lanc formation can take it down,why can't one C47 bring it back up? At least put the HQ near the 163....and dont put a mountain between it!!!!!!! This is getting rediculous. One person takes it down, yet you need dozens to supply it. *heavy sigh*

[Mini D]

Its a good thing the British never learned to bring lancs in low below radar to strike targets or the Germans might have lost.

MiniD

[Sixpence]

Yeah, they took radar down for all of germany with one lanc:rolleyes:

[kbman]

I did see a great show on PBS tonight, ironically enough, about the 617 Dambusters and the development of the skip bombs that made their reputation. They flew Lancs several hundred miles into Germany at 150 ft!! then dropped to 60ft to line up on the damns and used hand held custom triangulation bombsites made out of plywood with three pegs to line up with the towers on the dams so they could drop their "trashcans" at precisely 475 yds. from the damn for the proper trajectory to blow the dam. It was awe inspiring how the entire thing was engineered, planned and carried out by a sqd composed of Brits, Canadians. Aussies and an American, all trained in absolute secrecy and only told of the true nature of their mission 6 hrs before they took off. There were 19 Lancs to hit 6 targets, 3 of which were destroyed with a loss of 8 aircrews totaling 53 men. The designer vowed never again to risk another human life on one of his projects. Distraught and in tears after the raid despite it's having been a major success and huge morale boost for the Brits, he said it had all been an academic exercise until 53 men didn't make it back home.
Amazing!

kbman

[Sixpence]

hijacked

[Jackal1]

kbam, I thought the designing of the bombsigt for this mission was awesome.

[MwXX]

LOL, just saw that same PBS show on that "skip bomb"


great show!




my $0.02

[Engine]

I thought one of the pilots was in a theater, and was inspired to mount downward-facing spotlights on the wings which would align properly when they were exactly 90 ft off the ground.

[GrimCO]

I also saw a special on the History Channel about the Dambuster Squadron. After the dambusting mission, they decided to use them in "safer" missions. They equipped the Dambusters with the 22,000 pound Grand Slam bomb dropped from Lancasters.

Now THAT'S a bomb!

[SKurj]

I've always felt HQ should have some player controlled defences, even if its an airfield right next door.
Better yet... 5" guns +)


SKurj

[Mother]

Look for the movie Dambusters...English move....excellent to watch, side note...scenes from dambusters can be seen in Pink Floyd's the wall, the scenes of the man with the black dog are directly from the movie.

It details how they figured out the skipping method using large ball bearings shot across a pool of water, and the theater light trick to figure the proper height

Mothr

[Sixpence]

Or ay least increase the Flak. Something to make the enmy use alot more than one Lanc formation. I liked your idea of multiple HQ's to cover different areas of the map. One HQ for all dar doesn't seem to be working. Maybe in AHII?

[wetrat]

HQ should have mannable acks.

[ASASIN]

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[Sixpence]

So fly around aimlessly around HQ hoping to run into the lanc noe? Yeah, that's how I want to spen my time in AH. If it wasn't a problem there wouldn't be any posts on it. One Lanc taking down down dar for whole team? C'mon, it's a flaw, address it, plz.