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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Hats on April 12, 2007, 11:57:56 AM
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the game needs more transport variety, such as the axis aircraft or c87 or c46 which is a smaller c47
maybe the b24 could have a transport option?
lol, the c87 would bring in denis quaid wannabees, just like the b25 is bringing in ben aflacks's
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First of all - ju52.Nothing more than that.
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Originally posted by duh
First of all - ju52.Nothing more than that.
Agreed
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Originally posted by frank3
Agreed
I better won't tell you that the He 111 was used a lot as a transporter during the war ... ;)
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Originally posted by Lusche
I better won't tell you that the He 111 was used a lot as a transporter during the war ... ;)
Agreed :D
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Originally posted by Hats
the game needs more transport variety, such as the axis aircraft or c87 or c46 which is a smaller c47
maybe the b24 could have a transport option?
lol, the c87 would bring in denis quaid wannabees, just like the b25 is bringing in ben aflacks's
Actualy the C-46 was a much larger aircraft than the C-47.
The C-87 IS the transport version of the B-24.
If your thinking of the movie "Flight of the Pheonix" that Dennis Quaid stared in, the plane from the originial movie and the remake was a C-119.
Have a nice day:)
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how bout that giant transport Me-233 or sumthing like that. got 20mm all over the place. weighs like the Lanc and probably even more... slow like a WW1 biplane, but a fun ride to lure away enemy planes.... be fun to see them blow up :t :O
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You mean this sucker???
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Messerschmitt_Me323.jpg)
Capable of carrying 100 combat-equipped troops or a similar freight load of about 15 tons, the Me 323 was used in 1943 to ferry supplies and reserve troops from Italy and Sicily to the German Afrika Korps in Tunis and the area of North Africa. However, from Ultra intelligence, the transport formations' flight schedules were known to the Allies who used this information to send fighter squadron to ambush the aerial convoys and shoot down the transports.
For example, on 22 April 1943 near Cape Bon, several squadrons of Spitfires and P-40 Kittyhawks attacked a unit of 14 petrol-carrying Me 323s and their fighter escorts. All 14 were shot down with the loss of about 120 crew and 700 drums of fuel.
Just under 200 Me 323's were built before production ceased in April 1944. There were several production versions, beginning with the D-1. Later D- and E- versions differed in the choice of power plant and in defensive armament, with improvements in structural strength, total cargo load and fuel capacity also being implemented. Nonetheless, the Me 323 remained significantly underpowered. There was a proposal to install six BMW 801 radials, but this never came to pass. The Me 323 was also a short-range aircraft, with a typical range (loaded) of 1,000–1,200 km. Despite this, the limited numbers of Me 323's in service were an invaluable asset to the Germans, and saw intensive use. The Me 323 was something of a 'sitting duck', being so slow and large an aircraft. In the final weeks of the North African campaign in April/May 1943, 43 Gigants were lost, along with much greater numbers of Ju 52's. In terms of aircraft design, the Me 323 was actually very resilient, and could absorb a huge amount of enemy fire - the Afrika Korps' nickname of Leukoplastbomber (Elastoplast Bomber) was somewhat unfair. However, no transport aircraft can ever be expected to survive without air superiority or at least, comprehensive local air cover, and it is believed that no Me 323s survived in service beyond the summer of 1944.
General characteristics
Crew: 5
Capacity: 130 troops or 10–12 tonnes equipment
Length: 28.2 m (92 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 55.2 m (181 ft 0 in)
Height: 10.15 m (33 ft 3.5 in)
Empty weight: 27,330 kg (60,260 lb)
Loaded weight: 29,500 kg (65,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 43,000 kg (94,815 lb)
Powerplant: 6× Gnôme-Rhône 14N , 700 kW (950 hp) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 270 km/h (170 mph)
Range: 800 km (500 miles)
Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,100 ft)
Rate of climb: 216 m/min (710 ft/min)
Ferry range: 1,100 km (684 miles)
Armament
18 × 7.92 mm MG 81 machine guns
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Originally posted by frank3
Agreed
agreed agreed
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Heeheeheeh i'm glad AC-47 wasn'y in WW2
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I'm still hanging on to the PBY Catalina SEAPLANE!
(see other thread) :aok
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I would like a PBY for Christmas
http://www.uscg.mil/HQ/G-CP/HISTORY/WEBAIRCRAFT/AC_Consolidated_PBY.html
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Avro Anson
Mind you, it needs a handle to be turned 200 times to wind up the wheels - I don't think many joy-sticks come with a crank-handle.
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Originally posted by Hats
maybe the b24 could have a transport option?
This is a semi-realistic flight simuator.
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Originally posted by spikes
This is a semi-realistic flight simuator.
But his idea is very realistic since there were a bunch made and flown in WWII.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/C-87-liberator-express.jpg)
The C-87 Liberator Express was a transport derivative of the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. It was used during World War II. A total of 287 C-87's were factory-built alongside the B-24 at the Consolidated Aircraft plant in Fort Worth, Texas, although an unverified number of additional "C-87" aircraft were created by performing field conversions on airframes that originally rolled off the production line as B-24's.
The C-87 was hastily designed in early 1942 to fulfill the need for a heavy transport with longer range and better high-altitude performance than the C-47 Skytrain, the mostly widely available United States Army Air Forces transport aircraft at the time. The first C-87 prototype was based on a damaged B-24D, serial #42-40355, that crashed at Tucson Municipal Airport #2 on 2/17/43. [War Department, U.S. Army Air Forces REPORT OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT #43-2-17-11].
Although six Consolidated Aircraft employees riding as passengers were killed and several others were injured, the damaged aircraft was later converted from bomber configuration into a transport configuration [1], mostly consisting of the deletion of the gun turrets and other armament; the installation of a cargo floor, loading doors, seats, and windows; the use of a windowless sheetmetal nose in place of the glassed-in bomber nose; and rearrangement of the crew compartment. A variant, designated C-109, was designed to be a fuel transport.
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if we have another vote it should be all transports, that would rock. Ju52 FTW
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Originally posted by Hornet33
You mean this sucker???
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Messerschmitt_Me323.jpg)
Capable of carrying 100 combat-equipped troops or a similar freight load of about 15 tons, the Me 323 was used in 1943 to ferry supplies and reserve troops from Italy and Sicily to the German Afrika Korps in Tunis and the area of North Africa. However, from Ultra intelligence, the transport formations' flight schedules were known to the Allies who used this information to send fighter squadron to ambush the aerial convoys and shoot down the transports.
For example, on 22 April 1943 near Cape Bon, several squadrons of Spitfires and P-40 Kittyhawks attacked a unit of 14 petrol-carrying Me 323s and their fighter escorts. All 14 were shot down with the loss of about 120 crew and 700 drums of fuel.
Just under 200 Me 323's were built before production ceased in April 1944. There were several production versions, beginning with the D-1. Later D- and E- versions differed in the choice of power plant and in defensive armament, with improvements in structural strength, total cargo load and fuel capacity also being implemented. Nonetheless, the Me 323 remained significantly underpowered. There was a proposal to install six BMW 801 radials, but this never came to pass. The Me 323 was also a short-range aircraft, with a typical range (loaded) of 1,000–1,200 km. Despite this, the limited numbers of Me 323's in service were an invaluable asset to the Germans, and saw intensive use. The Me 323 was something of a 'sitting duck', being so slow and large an aircraft. In the final weeks of the North African campaign in April/May 1943, 43 Gigants were lost, along with much greater numbers of Ju 52's. In terms of aircraft design, the Me 323 was actually very resilient, and could absorb a huge amount of enemy fire - the Afrika Korps' nickname of Leukoplastbomber (Elastoplast Bomber) was somewhat unfair. However, no transport aircraft can ever be expected to survive without air superiority or at least, comprehensive local air cover, and it is believed that no Me 323s survived in service beyond the summer of 1944.
General characteristics
Crew: 5
Capacity: 130 troops or 10–12 tonnes equipment
Length: 28.2 m (92 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 55.2 m (181 ft 0 in)
Height: 10.15 m (33 ft 3.5 in)
Empty weight: 27,330 kg (60,260 lb)
Loaded weight: 29,500 kg (65,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 43,000 kg (94,815 lb)
Powerplant: 6× Gnôme-Rhône 14N , 700 kW (950 hp) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 270 km/h (170 mph)
Range: 800 km (500 miles)
Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,100 ft)
Rate of climb: 216 m/min (710 ft/min)
Ferry range: 1,100 km (684 miles)
Armament
18 × 7.92 mm MG 81 machine guns
yes, that little sucker. but in my book, it said they carried sum 20mms cannon. it was Me-323D-1. but my book may be wrong. and yes i like to have it AH so noobs use it and we can blow them noobs up.:t
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(http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/lrg0077.jpg)
wow
that things HUGE
looks like a easy target :D
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What we realy need is a Helicopter Transport that can carry Tanks, Jeeps, Troops ect.
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4931/uh60slingloadmastersc1.th.jpg) (http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uh60slingloadmastersc1.jpg)
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Originally posted by HGpappy
What we realy need is a Helicopter Transport that can carry Tanks, Jeeps, Troops ect.
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4931/uh60slingloadmastersc1.th.jpg) (http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uh60slingloadmastersc1.jpg)
WW2 Transports
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Well, tanks, jeeps and troops were WWII too :D
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Originally posted by frank3
Well, tanks, jeeps and troops were WWII too :D
Chinook wasn't unless there was a distortion in Time&Space
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You take us for serious? :huh