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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Gato on March 20, 2006, 09:29:06 PM
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Okay, now we have jeeps which carry vehicle supplies. Why not add the option to carry 4 troops? That would make taking a base fun, needing 3 jeeps or 1 M-3, C-47.
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we also need an option to not carry and troops/supplies. for when we wanna drive it and the bases strats are down.
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Originally posted by Gato
Okay, now we have jeeps which carry vehicle supplies. Why not add the option to carry 4 troops? That would make taking a base fun, needing 3 jeeps or 1 M-3, C-47.
As you know, I like this idea. Even two troops would be nice.
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Reckon 2 troops would be about right..........and a nice addition
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how bout a option to load a jeep onto a C-47?
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Originally posted by RAIDER14
how bout a option to load a jeep onto a C-47?
NEVER happen, won't fit
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I can fit 4 people in my jeep any more that that there is a stability issue.Of course that includes the driver.
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Originally posted by Gato
NEVER happen, won't fit
C-47s did transport jeeps I'm not sure if they did any combat drops like
C-130s though
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Originally posted by Gato
NEVER happen, won't fit
Never say Never?? :rolleyes:
http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/skytrain.htm
As a supply plane, the C-47 could carry up to 6,000 pounds of cargo. It could also hold a fully assembled jeep or a 37 mm cannon. As a troop transport, it carried 28 soldiers in full combat gear. As a medical airlift plane, it could accommodate 14 stretcher patients and three nurses. Seven basic versions were built, and the aircraft was given at least 22 designations, including the AC-47D gunship, the EC-47 electronic reconnaissance aircraft, the EC-47Q antiaircraft systems evaluation aircraft and the C-53 Skytrooper.
http://members.aol.com/brimiljeep/WebPages/OrigJeepPhotosPage.html
scroll down and view the pics, you'll see a jeep being loaded in a C47
http://www.vectorsite.net/avc47.html
The most visible change was fit of a double cargo door into the rear left side of the fuselage, with a passenger door nested inside the right half of the cargo door. In a sense, the cargo doors were the aircraft's worst feature. They worked as specified, but since the C-47 was originally designed as a commercial transport, it was not optimized for loading cargo as a aircraft with nose or tail doors would have been. Getting large cargoes in and out of a C-47 could be time-consuming and frustrating; a jeep could be driven up a ramp into the aircraft, but it had to be manhandled around to fit inside the fuselage. Although the C-47 would become arguably the most famous cargolifter of all time, it was strictly an improvisation in that role.
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Airscrew, you are talking about a slightly different versions of the plane each time. What I meant by "NEVER Happen, I won't fit" it requires large cargo door to be in place and the modeling HTC has, doesn't. (Though that is a flaw there for the loading of supplies anyway) It also takes a lot of work to get a jeep into one of those birds, not as easy as just loading cargo. So, in short, I still say NEVER Happen and I'm not talking RL but AH
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Well you know what Gato? maybe you could have been a little clear in your post, Never Happen Wont Fit. doesnt say anything about AH or RL
and although the larger cargo doors arent modeled in AH whose to say it cant or wont in the future.
Also those links and decriptions about the jeeps are all for WW2 C-47s, or did you actually click and read any of them. What do ya expect on the intardnet, these are mostly condensed version that are posted on these websites.
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Originally posted by Airscrew
Well you know what Gato? maybe you could have been a little clear in your post, Never Happen Wont Fit. doesnt say anything about AH or RL
Sorry, my bad. And yeah, I glanced at the link. But then I already know a lot about the C-47. It was and still is at the top of the list of great planes. But then the C-46 was under rated, IMHO. Okay, so maybe my opinion is not humble at all. lol :rolleyes:
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the Curtis C-46 was bigger, carried more, and probably flew harder than the C-47. Both great planes, I think the C-47 had a better Publicity Agent and got more press. ;)
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C-46 looks better looking too
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including the AC-47D gunship
your talkin about Puff The Magic Dragon
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;) I knew that when I posted it. I cut that from the Boeing website, i took the whole paragraph, lest some think I was doing selective editing. I copy the warts and all.
I think that particular site was just trying to show all the designations the C-47 has had during its long career.
I've start building my book references/collection the last two years because websites are really starting to be a problem. Everybody copies from somebody else and alot of incorrect information get spread around, taken out of context. a few years ago I was searching online for some plane data, I think it was the A-26. I found at least 4 different websites, 1 or 2 professional and 2 or so those AOL type freebi websites. They all had the exact same information, to the letter, word for word, quote for quote.
Books arent awhole lot better sometimes.
I have "Fork Tailed Devil, The P38" by Martin Caidin first printed 1971, mines from 2001 reprint. So far its good book. I also have a book "Classic WWII Aviation series" called "Lockheed P-38 Lightning" by Terry Treadwell.
[part of the reason I bought it is because we have the same last name]
I would swear reading "Lockheed P-38 Lightning" that I read exactly the same words and quotes in Martin Caidin's book. Not the whole book just certain passages. Maybe so much as been written about the P-38 that it maybe impossible to write anything new about this plane.
and now I forgot where I was going with this so I'll just quit here and eat...:confused:
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do the new jeeps have trailer hitches?
(http://www.dinosstorage.com/uhaul%20_trailer.JPG)