How would YOU fly?

MP-Willow · Apr 26, 2005

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

mosquitoman · Apr 26, 2005

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

the lancaster kicks ass · Apr 27, 2005

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 · May 3, 2005

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 · May 3, 2005

Bit cold up there?

FLYBOYJ · May 3, 2005

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

mosquitoman · May 3, 2005

MP-Willow said:
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 · May 4, 2005

booring work though......

MP-Willow · May 6, 2005

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 · May 6, 2005

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

cheddar cheese · May 7, 2005

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 · May 7, 2005

cheddar cheese said:
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 · May 7, 2005

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 · May 7, 2005

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

cheddar cheese · May 7, 2005

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

the lancaster kicks ass · May 7, 2005

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

cheddar cheese · May 7, 2005

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 · May 7, 2005

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

cheddar cheese · May 7, 2005

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

MP-Willow · May 9, 2005

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.

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