How would YOU fly?

[MP-Willow]

A Baby German Carrier? I did not know they had any other then the Graph Zepplin

 

[mosquitoman]

I think it's an Allied escort carrier that was used to capture the U-Boat

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Just before D-Day the US caught a sub the 505, it's upgraded Enigma and all the then current codes with a combination of surface ships and aircraft with a small escort fleet buil;t around a baby carrier.

yes he does in fact mean the baby carrier was part of the force that captured the machine, however his poor use of grammar is a bit missleading, i had to read it over a few times as well...........

 

[MP-Willow]

Ok thanks. As for how I would fly? Why not seaplane raids from the I-400s over Pearl or WEst Coast?

Or Flying Liberators for Coastal Command over Iceland.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Bit cold up there?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I THINK IF I FLEW IN WW2, I WOULD WANT TO BUILD UP MY HOURS

 

[mosquitoman]

Or Flying Liberators for Coastal Command over Iceland.

Good choice, that's my alternative to raising hell in Northern France with a Mossie

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

booring work though......

 

[MP-Willow]

boring maybe, but the convoys truely did say thanks
As for cold, yes, but I was raised in Maine, cold is all relative.
Lanc, Lancasters did a lot of missions like that

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

they didn't protect convoys during the war.......

 

[cheddar cheese]

I was just thinking how id like to have flown a Komet. Then I found this pic which reminded me why I didnt say this earlier

Got this from this very excellet site about the Komet: http://www.sml.lr.tudelft.nl/~home/rob/me163.htm

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I was just thinking how id like to have flown a Komet. Then I found this pic which reminded me why I didnt say this earlier

Got this from this very excellet site about the Komet: http://www.sml.lr.tudelft.nl/~home/rob/me163.htm

Hey great site CC! Plug into the EXCOR site. I knew a few of those folks who built the long ez rocket plane. I still think they still have a plan to build a 163 replica. Can you imagine flying the thing and knowing it won't explode on landing!

 

[Glider]

An added incentive for not flying the Me163. If you did a heavy landing and the tanks ruptured then they would disolve the pilot
Not nice

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that's assuming you got as far as the stage where you need to land.......

 

[cheddar cheese]

And even then landing on a humble skid is hard enough.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

with knowing you'll get blown up after..........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Contrary to belief, some pilots DID actually make it through several sorties in a Komet. Check out the site I posted, its pretty good

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

hang on a minute, CC's right, some of them did make more than one sortie

 

[cheddar cheese]

And one of the guys actually escaped from and survived a crash, and is pictured as a JG400 veteran!

 

[MP-Willow]

So to try and have the best luck not rupturing the tanks on landing come back with out any fuel. But that would be poor as well.

CC,I like your C-78 and *1 in the sig. Pardon if i am wrong, but the Italian trimotors are very nice.