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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Uriel on August 29, 2007, 12:09:09 AM
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Please, please, please
make just one of the WW1 planes available in the dueling arena.. it would be awesome to see where dogfighting started.. it would really show how it evolved in WW2
please.. Snoopy is still sitting on his doghouse, and thats just wrong
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Flying a WWI biplane would be interesting, but I don't think it will ever happen.
SO!!.......
(http://[IMG]http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x311/archywood/snoop.jpg)[/IMG]
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You know what would happen, some dweeb would up a ElGay and run that Camel down. :D
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Pilot wounds would be a beyatch ;)
(http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/aircraft/SE5a/se5a_info/SE5a.jpg)
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Why not just add the British Swordfish ? You want a bi-plane, theres one that actually saw service during WW2
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I don't think a swordfish would be much use in the DA, a Gloster Gladiator would though...
It is interesting to think that the RAF went from having a biplane fighter armed with 4 x .303's built by Gloster, to a jet fighter with 4 x 20mm built by Gloster within 4 years.
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Biplanes were in WW2, how about that CR.42 or whatever it was?
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The P6-E "hawk would be a fun airplane to fly
(http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/7349/p6esmall.jpg)
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You know how it started don't you? Scout planes ran into eachother over teh front lines and their crew unholstered their sidearms, went downhill ever since. The term 'air duel' comes to mind. :D
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Originally posted by Uriel
Please, please, please
make just one of the WW1 planes available in the dueling arena.. it would be awesome to see where dogfighting started.. it would really show how it evolved in WW2
please.. Snoopy is still sitting on his doghouse, and thats just wrong
well there was one mission in WWII where WWI bi-planes (brittish) were used to sink the Bismarck, the torpedo strike failed 2 torpedo hits, one to the hull doing basically no damage and one to the rudder. It ended up being the job of the brittish battleships to do the job, which they did. i think it'd be quite the site to see these bi-plane torp bombers flyin formation into a CV, i'm with it :]
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You mean the Fairey Swordfish, it's a slow bi-plane. They were not hit by the ack from the Bismarck simply because the AA crews were leading them too much, they were too slow! The Bismarck's crew were trained to lead fast fighters and were constantly shooting in front of the slow Swordfish bi-planes. Scared the heck outta the brit pilots I'm sure, but not really effective. :)
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Originally posted by 33Vortex
You mean the Fairey Swordfish, it's a slow bi-plane. They were not hit by the ack from the Bismarck simply because the AA crews were leading them too much, they were too slow! The Bismarck's crew were trained to lead fast fighters and were constantly shooting in front of the slow Swordfish bi-planes. Scared the heck outta the brit pilots I'm sure, but not really effective. :)
not only that but because they were flying JUST above wave level so it was hard to get shots on em that low...
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"Latrobe landed 10 victories in a Swordfish of ~Gruppe Outlaws~"
:D Bi-Planes would be fun
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Originally posted by Latrobe
"Latrobe landed 10 victories in a Swordfish of ~Gruppe Outlaws~"
:D Bi-Planes would be fun
they'd be a blast, only as furball said, pilot wounds...
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Hey, I wonder how a bi-plane would handle loosing a wing. Talk about redundancy, you could loose upper right and lower left and keep symmetrical lift, almost. :D
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The wings have no wing spar on first world war aircraft, they get their strength through wires and bracing struts linking both wings together... although there were cases of aircraft returning with shot up wires/missing sections of wings, i bet the vast majority just fell out of the sky!
Ripping off wings pulling too many G was common in WWI, especially in the early part of the war.
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The Gladiator would be fun and even has a closed cockpit
snippet from wiki:
"The Gladiator pilots of the Norwegian Jagervingen (fighter wing) at Fornebu Airport, having seven serviceable planes on the day, managed to shoot down five German aircraft on 9 April 1940, the first day of the invasion of Norway: two Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters, two He 111 bombers and a Ju 52 transport. One Gladiator was shot down during the air battle, by the future Experte Helmut Lent, while two were destroyed on the ground, being strafed while refuelling and rearming at Fornebu airport. The four remaining fighters were ordered to land wherever they could away from their Fornebu base. The planes scattered, landing on frozen lakes around Oslo and never returned to battle, being abandoned by their pilots and then wrecked by souvenir searching civilians.[3]"
:D
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Gloster_Gladiator_1.jpg/800px-Gloster_Gladiator_1.jpg)
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Originally posted by Furball
The wings have no wing spar on first world war aircraft, they get their strength through wires and bracing struts linking both wings together... although there were cases of aircraft returning with shot up wires/missing sections of wings, i bet the vast majority just fell out of the sky!
Ripping off wings pulling too many G was common in WWI, especially in the early part of the war.
so, that'd still be a blast :]
i'd love to fly a bi-plane into combat just to count the seconds of how long i'd last, and hey, if i'm lucky, get a couple kills :]