Not all early war birds had oxygen systems, the I16 being one of them.
I was under the impression that the I16 didn't have any oxygen systems, but I'm still pretty sure the US and Brit brews didn't have oxygen systems so if both where added this would be an interesting thing to see. :devil It could also be a breakable system in other AC perhaps and if hit, you would need to stick around 10k or so. By the way, it was a typo, was supposed to say around 10k.
You know what I mean, at 10k you don't have to worry about blacking out :bhead
What year was oxygen invented?:lol
By the beginning of WW2, oxygen was pretty much standard with all fighters, including the I-16. AFAIK the Finnish Brewsters had oxygen systems as well.
You know what I mean, at 10k you don't have to worry about blacking out :bheadActually I don't/didn't because your 3 minute and 10,000 feet reference doesn't correlate with anything realistic.
It would be interesting to have the black out occur at an appropriate altitude for aircraft that didn't have oxygen systems.
Lack of pressurised cabins should be a bigger concern. W/o it u are not able to go above 30k even w 100% oxygen. so the B-29 should be pretty much unchallenged above 30k.
Lack of pressurised cabins should be a bigger concern. W/o it u are not able to go above 30k even w 100% oxygen. so the B-29 should be pretty much unchallenged above 30k.
Says who? It's around 50K where you need a pressure suit, not 30k.In the USAF, we were restricted to 50 and below without a pressure suit, in a pressurized cockpit.
Lack of pressurised cabins should be a bigger concern. W/o it u are not able to go above 30k even w 100% oxygen. so the B-29 should be pretty much unchallenged above 30k.Ta152H-1 and Mosquito Mk XVI are also pressurized.
In WWI the germans used pressurized bombers when they bombed Britain.
There are some aircraft in the game, such as the I16, Brew ( no this is not linked to my hate of said AC) and a few other early war AC. I would like to see that if one of these AC goes above 10k for more than 3min that the pilot will start to black out as if the pilot had a PW and die with in 10min.:airplane: Now, I believe in immersion in the game, but what you are asking for is a pressurized cockpit, because I don't think there are enough Army/Navy surplus stores in America to supply all the oxygen masks we would need in the game!
:salute Coalcat1
Have at it
Ta152H-1 and Mosquito Mk XVI are also pressurized.
Unpressurized Spitfires were flown to altitudes over 40,000ft though, so unless you can think of a way to model the increased crew comfort of the three pressurized aircraft in AH I can't see a reason to concern ourselves about it in AH.
Matter of fact, incendiary tracer ammo was invented in WWI in britain for the very purpose of depressurizing german bombers.
Oh, please...For reals yo.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/zeppelin-terror-attack.html
Go to about 38:00
The Germans were primary using zeppelins for long range bombing. And depressurizing in this case mean that they were making holes in the zeppelin cases and hopefully ignited them. Its a completley different thing than what we discuss here.I bet you're the life of the party.
I apologize I had no idea that PBS was ran by a bunch of jackboot nationalists.
I am not living in the United States...
But still. It was zeppelins, not aircrafts. And it has nothing to do with pressurised cabins.Everyone's a comedian..
Matter of fact, incendiary tracer ammo was invented in WWI in britain for the very purpose of depressurizing german bombers.
You obviously typed that after your "Time of Useful Conciousness" had run out.Are you saying that Nova got it wrong?
Are you saying that Nova got it wrong?