Me-323 Gigant

[Furball]

Manufacturer:   Messerschmitt
Type:   heavy transport
Engine:   six Gnome-Rhone 14N fourteen-cylinder twin-row radial engines, each rated at 1,140 hp
Max speed:   195 mph at 13,000 feet
Service ceiling:   23,000 feet
Max range:   685 miles
Weight:   empty 60,250 lbs; loaded 85,000 lbs; maximum 94, 815 lbs
Dimensions:   wingspan 180 feet, 6 inches; length 92 feet, 4 inches; height 33 feet, 3.5 inches
Armament:   two 7.9-mm MG 17 machine-guns in upper fuselage; two 7.9-mm MG 17 machine-guns in lower fuselage; four 7.9-mm MG 17 machine-guns in forward dorsal positions; two 7.9-mm MG 17 machine-guns in rear dorsal installation; six 7.9-mm MG 17 machine-guns in lateral positions; two 7.9-mm MG 17 machine-guns in ventral installation; freight-load of 26,900 lbs or 100 men

Would make resupplying and crashing server due to mass paradrops easier eh?  

It would be nice if we could get an aircraft like this in a later version of AH2, vehicle drops would be useful!

[Chairboy]

Seconded.

[2Hawks]

Where would one go for flight performance info for these old planes?

Where does HT get is flight envelope data and information on the "Feel" of the craft?

[Devourer]

If this plane was in AH right now, it would be the games biggest plane magnet because it is a big, slow target. There is no way you could sneak into a field and capture it with that behemoth, but carrying gvs would be intersting.

Does anyone know the  climbrate on that monster?

[B17Skull12]

YEAH!!!!!! BREING IT OT AH2 and also it was the me 321 watch a show about it on TV:)


skull12
(man that thing could haul)

[2Hawks]

would be to transport troops / GV's to a remote part of the Island with a Airfield we wanted and driving in.  Or making a drop just outside of a Strat Target and Pork it. Then just imagine the challenge of driving and parking your GV's in the thing. If the Pilot manevers too hard do the GV's inside roll and go boom? That would be a hell of a blast and a big responsibility on the pilot. What happens when the transport goes kaboom? Do GV Drivers go for a long drop? I can't think of more interesting target for gunnery practice than a Flak Panzer Plummeting to the earth.

The whole operation would be fraught with hazzard, but the game concept would bring a whole new dimension. Base resupply in a single or two drops...

[Rutilant]

Originally posted by Devourer
If this plane was in AH right now, it would be the games biggest plane magnet because it is a big, slow target. There is no way you could sneak into a field and capture it with that behemoth, but carrying gvs would be intersting.

Does anyone know the  climbrate on that monster?

So..? Bring it!

[Dr Zhivago]

Originally posted by Devourer
If this plane was in AH right now, it would be the games biggest plane magnet because it is a big, slow target. There is no way you could sneak into a field and capture it with that behemoth, but carrying gvs would be intersting.

Does anyone know the  climbrate on that monster?

Me323 E-2

Max. speed (72,580lb)
157 mph at sea level
150 mph at 4,920 ft
137 mph at 9,840 ft

Climb rate
866 ft/min ~72,580 lb
396 ft/min ~99,210 lb

Range (99,210 lb)
684 miles at sea level
746 miles at 6,650 ft
810 miles at 13,120 ft

[2Hawks]

I can chase it down and kill it with a Stuka!!!

[Ack-Ack]

The Stuka we have now probably doesn't have enough spit wads to shoot something that big down.


ack-ack

[brady]

Many had MG 151/20 mm cannons, and MG 131 mg's, in adadtion to the ton of 7.9mm mg's.

[ccvi]

Originally posted by 2Hawks
I can chase it down and kill it with a Stuka!!!

Even a Cessna 150 will do

[2Hawks]

If ya plinked away at the Verticle Stab long enough.

But imagine a plane that took a LONG time to nail... PLenty of time for escorts to close and nail em...

[Ike 2K#]

is Me-323 replacement for the Ju-52?

[Rutilant]

Slow as hell.. i still want it though! an i attach a couple 262 engines on it? vroom!


PLSPLSPLSPLS make it so tanks have to drive into it, rather than just automatically be there.