2011 Race Event 1 - Southwest Pacific Tour
- Thread starter PRB
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Hi MM, great to see you aboard!
I outta install a tailhook on the B-17F just to see if I 'can' drop her on a deck...
I wont for this event, but you've given me something to try for fun.... the wingspan may come into play on landing, but the low t/o speeds for this a/c mean a catapult setting of 110-130 would do the trick... the AC/TH gauge would drop into this bird just fine....
As for the 'cheating' aids... I use fsnav as a map (never as autopilot, yuk), and turn off the position option, thus not showing the a/c on the map... im sure pilots of the era would have area maps, and fsnav is the only thing I have available to me as a map (i didnt look for one online, im sure there are many) If I find one, Ill abandon fsnav all together...:salute:
I wont for this event, but you've given me something to try for fun.... the wingspan may come into play on landing, but the low t/o speeds for this a/c mean a catapult setting of 110-130 would do the trick... the AC/TH gauge would drop into this bird just fine....
As for the 'cheating' aids... I use fsnav as a map (never as autopilot, yuk), and turn off the position option, thus not showing the a/c on the map... im sure pilots of the era would have area maps, and fsnav is the only thing I have available to me as a map (i didnt look for one online, im sure there are many) If I find one, Ill abandon fsnav all together...:salute:
srgalahad
Charter Member 2022
"Avro York C/n 1207 G-AGJA, military serial MW103, was never taken up by the RAF. Delivered directly to BOAC in February 1944 and named “Mildenhall”. It was part of a fleet of five early Yorks configured as a combination of passenger/freight with 12 passengers seated in the rear of the cabin, inaugurating the first UK-Cairo route via Morocco on April 22, 1944. At this time coloured in RAF wartime camouflage colours."
As events unfolded in the Pacific, Colonial citizens and officials requested assistance from Whitehall and a mission was developed to answer their pleas. Diverted from Cairo, cautiously flown through the Asian routes, York "GJA" was positioned in the Phillipines to ferry badly-needed supplies to the ex-pats -- specially modified with heat-exchange units on the Merlins to boil water, it's goal was to hop through the SW Pacific providing the essentials for life -- tepid tea and shares of the cargo of one ton of 'Bully Beef'. This is the tale of the "Tea Bomber"...
Sit down with a cuppa Ovaltine and enjoy the flight!
As events unfolded in the Pacific, Colonial citizens and officials requested assistance from Whitehall and a mission was developed to answer their pleas. Diverted from Cairo, cautiously flown through the Asian routes, York "GJA" was positioned in the Phillipines to ferry badly-needed supplies to the ex-pats -- specially modified with heat-exchange units on the Merlins to boil water, it's goal was to hop through the SW Pacific providing the essentials for life -- tepid tea and shares of the cargo of one ton of 'Bully Beef'. This is the tale of the "Tea Bomber"...
Sit down with a cuppa Ovaltine and enjoy the flight!
Great Ozzie
Charter Member
Hello Hardchargers, I wanted to participate sooner... but with "Life" and a naughty computer, made things difficult. I will start now and should be done by the end of the month.
Flying the A2A B-17G Accusim using the excellent repaint by Jan Kees Blom, which can be found at: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/1474-a2a-b-17g-suzy-q/
With the following description:
"Boeing B-17E Fortress 41-2489, "Suzy-Q" was one of the most famous Flying Fortresses of the Pacific War. It was assigned to the 93d Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group on 7 February 1942 and took part in all of the early Pacific battles except Midway, and is gunners claimed no less than 26 Japanese aircraft destroyed. It was repatriated to the US for a warbond tour, and was covered in LIFE magazine on 18 Jan. 1943."
Flying the A2A B-17G Accusim using the excellent repaint by Jan Kees Blom, which can be found at: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/1474-a2a-b-17g-suzy-q/
With the following description:
"Boeing B-17E Fortress 41-2489, "Suzy-Q" was one of the most famous Flying Fortresses of the Pacific War. It was assigned to the 93d Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group on 7 February 1942 and took part in all of the early Pacific battles except Midway, and is gunners claimed no less than 26 Japanese aircraft destroyed. It was repatriated to the US for a warbond tour, and was covered in LIFE magazine on 18 Jan. 1943."