How would YOU fly?

[cheddar cheese]

But Hovering a Heli is more economical than hovering a Harrier..

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yeah but nowhere near as cool........

 

[plan_D]

No it's not, CC. The only reason the Harrier can't do it long is because of the water cooling.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Exactly...Engines over heat, fail, plane goes down, then come the repair costs...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

go on then, what can you do in a helicopter gunship that you can't do in a harrier??

 

[plan_D]

No because the Royal Navy pilots are some are the best in the world and they know when to stop hovering.

Helicopters are extremely uneconomical, why do you think they have such a short range? They're at constant full power!

 

[cheddar cheese]

go on then, what can you do in a helicopter gunship that you can't do in a harrier??

Annilhate Ragheads/Skinnies with a Minigun/M-60 in a Derelict/Corrupt town (Circle as Appropriate)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

no but you can do it with rockets or a 30mm, so you can do that........

 

[plan_D]

The Gr.7 wouldn't need to use guns, it'll just blow the place to pieces with rockets and bombs.

 

[cheddar cheese]

If youre in an Apache you can do it with a 30mm chain gun and 70mm rockets.

 

[plan_D]

The Apache also has to be closer to it's target area at the start. It also can't get in and out at high speeds.

 

[The Jug Rules!]

Ok. I know this one. P-38 Lightning (whichever model was in service at the time), PTO, USAAF 5th AF, 475th FG, 432nd (Clover) FS, and I'd stayed there as long as I could. Like I said, I've already done the sketches for what my plane would look like.

Could you post some of your sketches?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes, hovering in a helicopter you are unbelievably vunerable to ground fire and even fire from other aircraft, coming in at 600mph and dropping lazer guided bombs or rockets from one of the best ground attack platforms in the world (the harrier), you are far less vunerable than you are in a helicopter and you can do just as much, proberly more, damage.........

 

[MP-Willow]

Ok all this harrier talk is a bit much, but the plane needs help with the lazer guided bomb drop. The choppers can do it all alone, and do hold up well to ground fire.

Mossy, were would you be based in your B-24? Greenland or Iceland?
Me I woud take both, maybe in a Sotherland hunting U-boats and the stry aircraft that I could get.

 

[plan_D]

The GR.7 doesn't need help with dropping it's laser-guided weapons. If you want to put it back on topic, don't mention the discussion that is off-topic.

 

[mosquitoman]

I would go with Iceland and 220 Squadron- the first squadron to get Libs and the one of the pilots- Terence Bulloch is the only person to sink 2 subs in 1 sortie

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

now that's the way to get back on topic........

this, however, is not.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

There ae so many different planes that I would have wanted to fly. Its fairly hard for me to choose a specific situation.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Sorry to get back off topic here but I have to respond to some of these.

A helicopter is one of the most uneconomical machines there is.

Very True!

Helicopters are extremely uneconomical, why do you think they have such a short range? They're at constant full power!

Not true at all. When we are flying we take off at only 61% power and we normally fly at about 75 to 80 percent power. We can even pull one engine back to idle and use less fuel. We are unecenomical because of the amount of fuel it takes to keep the aircraft in the air, not because of the power we are using.

Ok all this harrier talk is a bit much, but the plane needs help with the lazer guided bomb drop. The choppers can do it all alone, and do hold up well to ground fire.

Not completey true. The AH-64A Apache could do it on its own but it was more efficient when the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior (the small little Bell OH-58 with the Ball on top) was used to target the tank the Apache was attacking. They would deploy the two aircraft in hunter killer teams. The Kiowa would act as the scout (hunter) going out and searching for the tanks, it would then paint them with the sights in the ball over its rotor system). The Apache (killer) would then come in and blow them away with Hellfires (laser guided by the Kiowa). The AH-64D Apache Longbow elliminates the need for the Kiowa because it has its own system above the rotors.

 

[Medvedya]

Myself, I'd would have liked to fly Lysanders with the 'Moonlight Squadron' dropping off S.O.E agents, and picking up POW's rescued by the resistance.