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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Kazaa on February 14, 2007, 07:42:44 AM
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... :noid
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b35:O
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B-52? :t
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b-****?:rofl
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bee-bop
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Bee-doo-beedoop?
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B reasonable! :eek:
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O, B quiet.
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B-have you beasts!
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2 B-29 or not 2 B-29? that is the question....
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2? We'd only need 1. Just one. And only 1 player can fly it at a time.
That'd B funny!
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Sorry, too far along this project right now.
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Maybe in a year or two?
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You're not sorry! But you will B.
B still with the A-26B, B-cause we won't get it B4 the B-25. :t :t
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BEEr
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Cof-fee?
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fee fee feee heeee neeeey! Feeny!
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I was actualyl hoping somebody would pick up on the Simpsons reference. The Simpsons go to Australia, and Marge tries to order a coffee.
Oh well.
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Well, I got the reference immediately.
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whoops ... sorry Krusty I was designing a light pole that will never be built or produced because the sales rep has delusions of grandeur... nice one :aok
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B-EER
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Im sayin bro
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Originally posted by Dichotomy
whoops ... sorry Krusty I was designing a light pole that will never be built or produced because the sales rep has delusions of grandeur... nice one :aok
I don't follow. Dilbert reference?
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nope.. completely serious as to why I didn't catch that more quickly. I really don't understand this place. I grace them with my presence 5 days a week and they want me to work too?
You should have seen their faces when I asked them if I could bring my CH setup here and fly during work hours. You'd think I tried to burn down the break room. *shakes head* the nerve of these people. ;)
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Originally posted by tedrbr
Sorry, too far along this project right now.
(http://home.earthlink.net/~tedrbr/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/a26-213-1.jpg)
Maybe in a year or two?
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Thread Ninja !
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Originally posted by Kazaa
Thread Ninja !
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Who...little 'ol me? Hmpf! I can do better than that.
(I need to grow a long thin mustache to twirl around my finger.)
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B-S
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B-B-S
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B-B-B-D-B-D-B-D-D-D-B! News Flash! We're not getting the B-29!
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Originally posted by Kazaa
... :noid
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Of course not, the B-29 had little impact on the war. Wait, never mind.
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If we're not getting the B-29 - then maybe HTC could arrange beer in the officers mess? It's a bit spartan in there - needs a bar.
A perk a pint - delivered to your door. :)
...and beer MUST have made an inpact on the war somehow...
...too many and the pilot passes out before taking off :)
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B still my heart!
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Originally posted by tedrbr
Sorry, too far along this project right now.
(http://home.earthlink.net/~tedrbr/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/a26-213-1.jpg)
Maybe in a year or two?
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Ohhh man! :aok :D :aok I want one... at least one... and the ability to send the drones in to attack targets with drone commands!
Imagine, if you will, four players with 1 or 2 AI's A-26's, and the ability to send those AI's in to strike on their own! :O
Besides, the letter A, comes before the letter B
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we dont need another small bomber like the a26. we need the b29, with no nuks.( all the noobs would be bombing the base back to the stone age)
it wouldnt be hard to make the b29, you just modify the b 17s body.
P51srule :aok
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How can So Much... be So Wrong... in three Short little Sentences?
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there were only 3,000+ of them in service for 18 months... I mean that's ONLY 300 times as many in service than 3 canon LA7s... and only 15 months longer too lol :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Hey... Call me sentimental. The lady was in three wars. The B-29 barely made one.
The Invader, would have been there from '43 on, if it weren't for the fact the engines she used were going to those bent wing blue boys, and the Jug. She was still up and around fighting forest fires until Y2K.
Where was the B-29 after Korea? Running errands as converted passenger liners, and target drones for the AF's new missiles.
The A-26, redesignate B-26 after the war when the Havoc was retired, has earned her place in immortality. It's only fitting that we honor her in the best MMO WW2 flight sim around, don't you think?
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Originally posted by Odee
The A-26, redesignate B-26 after the war when the Havoc was retired, has earned her place in immortality. It's only fitting that we honor her in the best MMO WW2 flight sim around, don't you think?
Actually, re-designated B-26 when Marauder was retired in 1948. The Invader was a replacement for A-20 Havoc, B-25 Mitchell, and B-26 Marauder. Was also re-re-designated back the the A-26 during Vietnam so USAF could operate it from Thailand --- we were not allowed to operate "bombers" out of there during the war.
And more than just our 3 wars: WWII, Korea, and Vietnam with America. The Soccer Wars in Central America, operated in El Salvador in CAS role during the revolutions and civil wars in the '70's, served in both Indonesia and Brazil military in the 1960's, and with the French in Indochina in '52 and Algeria in '59. This in addition to being operated as executive planes and water bombers in the U.S. and Canada. About 40 still airworthy around the world, IIRC.
For myself, I want something to spend my buff perks on. A "hot rod" for buff drivers.
The Green Skin above is modeled after the 3rd Bomber Group operating out of the Philippines in 1945.
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Originally posted by Odee
Hey... Call me sentimental. The lady was in three wars. The B-29 barely made one.
WWII, Korea, The Cold War - 3
The B-29 was such an impressive weapon the Commies had to steal it... Copied it rivet for rivet under death threats from Stalin himself. (See Tu-4 NATO appropriately named "Bull") It stayed in Soviet service until the 1960's The Chinese are STILL using 10 to 20 of them TODAY!
Research that the B-29 participated in, the X-series planes and their offspring has had long reaching effect. We went into space thanks to some of the experiments that took place in B-29's. They became Guppy type cargo aircraft, passenger liners, Tankers... You name it, soooooooo many variants... that airframe served us a VERY long time!
Their use in The Cold War, yes even as target drones made it possible for us to perfect weapons and tactics we use today. It is not unreasonable to argue that the B-29 use during this time period is still serving us today.
To TRY to imply this was an unimportant aircraft has me scratching my head... Sure I am all for an A-26 / B-26 I say the more planes the better! (That's one reason I love the Il2 Series Games!)
*Steps down from soapbox*
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Been stated many times in the boards that the B-29 won't be added to the game. Various reasons given, from it's high altitude and operating speeds at altitude, to it's massive bomb load out, to nook controversy.
One practical limitation that may exist: how much RUNWAY does a fully loaded B-29 take to get off the ground? Maximum takeoff weight of a B-29 (Loaded weight: 120,000 lb / 54,000 kg) is TWICE that of an Avro Lancaster (Loaded weight: 63,000 lb / 29,000 kg). Lanc can barely get up fully loaded from some fields now and clear the trees and hills.
Even with about twice the Horsepower a B-29 has compared to a Lanc, does a B-29 have any chance at all of getting off the fields in-game, or would fields and maps all need work to support it addition?
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Im guessing that the reason we wont get the A-26 is the same as why we wont get the ME410... both has remotley controlled turrets.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Im guessing that the reason we wont get the A-26 is the same as why we wont get the ME410... both has remotley controlled turrets.
Not sure where the thing about remote controlled turrets (or barbettes) originated from, but from the Invader thread under Aircraft and Vehicles:
quote:Originally posted by Krusty
I just realized why we won't get this plane.
The turrets are remotely operated. Same reason we won't get the B-29!
Well, at least, once HTC figures out a solution to this problem (convergence when the guns aren't at the aiming spot) we'll look forward to both the B-29 and the A-26.
We can't do a remotely operated turret? Oh crap, I need to pull the B-17G out of the game right away.
Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations
It's in reference to the chin gun on the remodeled B-17G.
Link to it is here:
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198001 (http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198001)
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:rofl
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I can't see this as being a difficult problem to solve - are not the guns on drones already offset from the observer's POV?
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Originally posted by Krusty
I was actualyl hoping somebody would pick up on the Simpsons reference. The Simpsons go to Australia, and Marge tries to order a coffee.
Oh well.
Stop stalking Marge - she'll never leave Homer.