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Title: Very Lights for WWI Aircraft
Post by: Miska on March 28, 2010, 12:03:39 PM

It might be very useful to have flares that can be fired both from aircraft and from fields.  They would be great for special events, and might come in handy for the hapless F2B that gets bounced by a couple of high triplanes just out of icon range of the furball.  I imagine they would also be useful for PT Boats and GVs in the other arenas.

Title: Re: Very Lights for WWI Aircraft
Post by: Lusche on March 28, 2010, 12:05:21 PM

Fighter planes carried flares in WWI ?

Title: Re: Very Lights for WWI Aircraft
Post by: Miska on March 28, 2010, 12:09:02 PM

They often did.  And Observers as well.

Title: Re: Very Lights for WWI Aircraft
Post by: Krusty on March 28, 2010, 12:12:40 PM

Heck, they carried them in WW2 as well. If we get 'em for one, I'd expand the wish to include both.

Title: Re: Very Lights for WWI Aircraft
Post by: ACE on March 28, 2010, 12:18:51 PM

 :aok

Title: Re: Very Lights for WWI Aircraft
Post by: MachFly on March 28, 2010, 12:20:35 PM

 :aok

Quote from: Krusty on March 28, 2010, 12:12:40 PM

Heck, they carried them in WW2 as well. If we get 'em for one, I'd expand the wish to include both.

But how would you fire them out of a WWII airplane? Closed canopy.

Title: Re: Very Lights for WWI Aircraft
Post by: Krusty on March 28, 2010, 12:25:46 PM

Many of them had chutes. You stuck the barrel of the flaregun in the chute and shot the flare out it. Even some 109s had it in the forward cockpit windscreen (lower side window pane).


Naturally, only for planes that really had it, but some pilots went into combat strapped with bandoliers of flare rounds for their flare gun.