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No it's not, CC. The only reason the Harrier can't do it long is because of the water cooling.
 
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!
 
The Gr.7 wouldn't need to use guns, it'll just blow the place to pieces with rockets and bombs.
 
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.
 


Could you post some of your sketches?
 
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.........
 
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.
 
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.
 
Sorry to get back off topic here but I have to respond to some of these.

plan_D said:
A helicopter is one of the most uneconomical machines there is.
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Very True!

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

MP-Willow said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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