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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Tumor on October 21, 2002, 12:26:18 AM

Title: I wanna DUCK!
Post by: Tumor on October 21, 2002, 12:26:18 AM

I have no idea why... I just do! lol

Title: I wanna DUCK!
Post by: brady on October 21, 2002, 12:40:06 AM

Well it is good to want things m8t, I want a new Italian plane, care to place a bet as to who will get his first?

Title: I wanna DUCK!
Post by: john9001 on October 21, 2002, 02:31:53 AM

was a movie about that plane fighting a german sub 'somebodys war"

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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 21, 2002, 02:34:51 AM

Murphy's war

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Post by: whgates3 on October 21, 2002, 02:51:50 AM

wouldn't you rather have this duck?
(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/duk.jpg)
"Curtiss-Goupil Duck
Glenn Curtiss built this machine in 1916 to help his defense of the Wright Brothers' patent lawsuit. It was designed in 1883 by Frenchman Alexander Goupil, Curtiss' example flew with a 100 Hp. Curtiss OXX powerplant The seaplane version in the picture was heavy and could barely hop, fitted with wheels it flew successfully in 1917. It did not contribute to a successful defense."

Title: I wanna DUCK!
Post by: Thrawn on October 21, 2002, 08:33:19 AM

That first plane looks pretty...excited.

Title: You'd better duck
Post by: 0Drag on October 22, 2002, 05:13:37 PM

Stick to your sheep pal.  :)

Title: Right here...
Post by: HeLLcAt on October 23, 2002, 02:37:18 PM

J2F Duck

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Post by: hazed- on October 23, 2002, 04:47:10 PM

gotta say tumor id like to see this aircraft added along with several other sea planes but as they can hardly be used for dogfighting I think they would need some sort of role before they are added.

My thoughts on this was :

A) used as a specialist artillery spotter: pilot of seaplane and the ships artillery gunner have a .join command which then makes the artillery shells appear a different colour for the seaplane pilot.The sea plane pilot can then direct fire visually for the ships guns.(the colour helps players differentiate shells which at the moment makes this sort of thing very hard to do).

b) The seaplane can 'mark' a point on the map which feeds the exact coordinates into the artillery gunners computer.

c) seaplane acts as a mobile radar illuminating any enemy fleet nearby allowing rest of country to see its position.

all are a little bit weak as roles but what else is there? :)

apart from maybe having depth charges or mines carried and dropped which would be cool for when we do get subs etc and cool for trying to catch fleets without facing that AA fire.

there are loads of seaplanes on all sides which would be cool for this sort of thing. especially if they have to land on the water to lay mines etc.