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Title: What's the biggest thing you can take off a deck?
Post by: Epsilon 5 on September 23, 2002, 03:28:42 AM

Always trying to get bigger,  I was wondering of people were better than me.

After many tries, I can take off a Lancaster with 50% fuel and 6000lb worth of bomb load off a carrier. the tail almost touch the water, but I can make it.

No that it's witout any headwind, other than the fact that the carrier is gonig at 35mph.

BTW - I can land anythig on a deck, given I have enough concentration. However it's hard to land and stay in the reload zone, but hey, I already landed a c47 on the reload zone, nothing bigger yet.

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Post by: Epsilon 5 on September 23, 2002, 03:31:49 AM

You can have a cookie if you can count all the typos I made in my previous post ;)

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Post by: hogenbor on September 23, 2002, 06:19:18 AM

Just out of curiosity, how did you get a Lancaster ON a carrier? You actually LANDED it??? I wonder if the Brits ever tried that one...

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Post by: Imp on September 23, 2002, 06:22:24 AM

Offline you can enable any plane at any field.

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Post by: GRUNHERZ on September 23, 2002, 07:26:51 AM

Well AH is more realistic than RL... :D

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Post by: jonnyb on September 23, 2002, 12:54:14 PM

I watched TheFatz land a lancaster on a carrier.  I managed to get an arado down and back up again.  I regularly land and launch ponies from the CV deck....I haven't tried getting a lanc/b17 up yet.

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Post by: vorticon on September 23, 2002, 01:10:51 PM

snoopy22 and bendover can take a lancaster off deck with 50% feul load. they just slip to end of carrier (unrealistic thing about ah physics start only 1 engine and run it slow you slide backwards) and zoom off.

personaly i managed t oactually keep a panzer on a moving cv once (funny as hell i just got going fast enough before i slid bellybutton backwards into the water)

i take c47s off with 100% fuel all the time

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Post by: Epsilon 5 on September 23, 2002, 01:12:46 PM

I could never take off with a lanc off a deck after landing .. I can never brake fast enough not to travel half the deck on landing .. and I'm not a MA player, not enough money for that (although I'm paying for jumpgate :D )

Of course taking off with a lanc, b17 or c47 requires you to slide left of the deck, do you won'T crash a wing on the tower :)

Actually, some of the smaller bombers are tougher to fly off the deck than the bigger ones. Lotsa trouble doing it with a b26 or ar234 It's easier with a b17 than those.

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Post by: vorticon on September 23, 2002, 01:19:21 PM

actually u can take off from the carrier without doing anywthing with the c47 just keep flaps up till you pass the tower on the cv  then drop flaps 3 notches and you can keep up after you fall off the end of the cv.

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Post by: Innominate on September 24, 2002, 12:00:23 AM

I once did four bombing runs in one sortie in a b26.  Took off from an airfield, bombed, and reloaded three more times from a nearby carrier.  Lot of fun landing a b26 on a CV.

Try this offline:
Set the wind on the deck to a 127mph headwind.
Take off in anything.
Regain control of the plane, and try and land on the CV.
Once you're close to landing(your wheels dont need to be on the deck) turn on auto-level, zero your throttle.
Now shut down your engine.

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Post by: mora on September 25, 2002, 01:12:14 PM

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Originally posted by vorticon
snoopy22 and bendover can take a lancaster off deck with 50% feul load. they just slip to end of carrier (unrealistic thing about ah physics start only 1 engine and run it slow you slide backwards) and zoom off.

You can do that in any plane and you dont need to use 1 engine, just a little bit of throttle. That only releases parking brake I think, nothing wrong with physics in this case. :)

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Post by: Red Tail 444 on September 25, 2002, 01:50:04 PM

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Originally posted by Innominate

Set the wind on the deck to a 127mph headwind.
Take off in anything.

Yeah no toejam, you can launch the space shuttle at JFK w/o SRB in a 127mph headwind :D

The biggest thing I got off the deck was my girlfriend's drunk-as-all-hell Mom at the O-Club at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI at a wedding reception back in 1987.

Does THAT count? :rolleyes:

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Post by: Red Tail 444 on September 25, 2002, 01:58:52 PM

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Originally posted by mora
just a little bit of throttle.  

2100 RPM will do the trick. Rolls backwards and it's not a bug.

Summer 2001, I was allowed ,to witness the restoration the P-51C Redtail, and the Dancing Daisy (P-51D) was winding up in between two airplane hangars for some mechanical work being done on her....a strong wind came through, and the pony floated off the ground, in place, with only the engine turning over at idle. Talk about aerodynamics!!!!

Well, that mechanic executed an emergency shutdown faster than ANY AH clown about to get vulched by an incoming la-7..that for sure :)

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Post by: frank3 on September 25, 2002, 02:54:30 PM

man, I'm already proud of myself when I take off in a F4U from the Carrier

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Post by: superpug1 on September 25, 2002, 06:33:12 PM

Certain people have the great pug take off and land B-17s, C-47s, 262s and others on a cv. I can pin a 17 right on top of the reloading spot on a cv. Though i can get anything off a cv, it is sadly with a limmited bomb load or fuel.
   this does add a heavy strike potential to a cv group but only at a limmeted range.  


   I am NOT bragging. I know that no matter how good I am there are others that are alot better.


-superpug  
<=====[---+ long live the sword of me.
:D

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Post by: vorticon on September 26, 2002, 01:22:08 PM

its not bragging to say you can get a c47 of deck. i can get a fully loaded c47 off deck quite easily you just need to slide to the end full throttle and 3 points of flaps. 17's arnt to hard either. the hardest thign to get off a deck would have to be the lanc.

(keepinbg a m16 ON a moving deck is hard to )

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Post by: cajun on September 26, 2002, 01:36:40 PM

I've taken off and landed a Lancaster... But I dont remember the fuel & bomb load..

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Post by: Seagoon on September 27, 2002, 12:23:05 AM

I Count 6, can I have my cookie? ;)

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Post by: Wardog on September 27, 2002, 08:04:10 PM

Then this should blow ya away.

It was in the MA, using our CV to take a field and there was a furball over CV. Mitsu called out asking if CV was clear to land. As the last of the cons where dispatched, i sayed it was clear. I start looking for him and see him coming in low in a Lancaster. I started laughing. Also started taking screen shots.

Not only did he land the Lanc and stopped 1/2 down the CV, but he started to reverse it back to the re-arm pad. At this point i was snicking to myself, no fediddlein way is he gona get that thing off the deck. Knowing Mit he prolly had 14k in bombs. Sure as hell he couldnt get the Lanc off the CV, flew of the end and nosed into the drink.

Mitsu just continues to amaze me when he flys.


Dog out..........................

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Post by: cajun on September 28, 2002, 12:13:51 AM

Landin a lanc on a cv is'nt *that* hard...
like vort said, keepin an m16 On a carrier is hard! ... I think impossible I've been tryin to do it lol

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Post by: Epsilon 5 on September 28, 2002, 06:55:04 AM

Landing anything on a cv is easy ... landing on the rearm zone isn't. An empty lanc with 25% fueld takes half deck to land for me. But I can land a b26 and a234 on the rearm zone.

They should have included a hook to land-based bombers.

Every fighter is easy to fly off and land on a carrier, although I must some fully loaded fighters (f4u, p38, p47) gets tough at TO

For take off, the fuel matters alot about the lancaster. the max bomb load is 14000lb, while 100% fuel is roughtly 22000lb :eek:

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Post by: senna on September 28, 2002, 07:15:18 AM

Well thats all very interesting but I think ya goto land one home on a CV first before you can take it off. Thats the hard part BTW.

:)

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Post by: udet on October 02, 2002, 01:04:51 PM

yo mamma :)