B-17 Operations Scrubbed. Technical lectures scheduled until the weather front clears

[EgoR64]

Neat !! :ernae:

Waiting - Watching !!

Many Cheers !!

[pilottj]

lol great manual, with this plane and manual you should be able to get a type rating in the real one lol I imagine this would be a great tool for RL warbird pilots wishing to get time in the B-17.

[crashaz]

Yes Kiwi.

Intelligence Officer has already given us the films. Trouble is we have lost the damn projector. Bet it was them limeys up the road!

Once we get the blasted thing back, we will get the films showing in the mess hut.

:ernae:

First with taking all the girls and now we get accused of taking your projector.

[Lewis-A2A]

Front is starting to clear, test flight went up with Scott to check out the conditions












Note the intercooler flaps above, as the co-pilot can manage the engines for you.


:ernae:

[stiz]

oooooo purdy!

[txnetcop]

This baby is soooooooooooooooo H-O-T!!!!!! Great job A2A and team!!!
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[MudMarine]

So hot they're finally going to release it? Yes I know it hasn't really been that long!

[Lewis-A2A]

TELEGRAM

8TH ARMY AIRFOCE - SUFFOLK

FRONT MOVING FASTER THAN EXPECTED -STOP- EXPECTED CLEAR UNLESS STRONG WINDS -STOP- CURRENTLY NO SIGN OF WINDS FROM EAST -STOP- GIVE JERRY HELL FOR US! -STOP-

RAF MET OFFICE
LONDON

[PRB]

Looks like we're on for - soonish! Grab your flight jacket and tin hat. And radio mike, and electric furry pants. And .45. And GLoves. And life preserver. Whoohoo!

[lawdawg]

another RAF MET report I found...

RAF MET REPORT

FRONT MOVING FASTER THAN EXPECTED -STOP- OPERATIONS BEING PLANNED READY FOR CLEARING -STOP- BE PREPARED FOR OPS SOON -STOP-

Yeehaw

[Kiwikat]

Oh man, is it time to pull out the F5 button? :d

P.S. Lewis, did ya find the projector?

[lawdawg]

F5 locked and phasers set to stun.

[MudMarine]

LEWIS IS A TEASE-STOP-LOL-STOP

[Matt Wynn]

Crew of the 'Smooth Slammer' (My Bird) stood to, "hey PRB not forgetting your flak jackets are ya? Jerry don't exactly like our lot flying about" *Stares at the sky* weathers clearing...

shame theres no 'Spook' Fortress... RAF used 3 (I Think) B-17's (Fortress III's) as radio and radar jammers for their night time raids over germany, night fighters can't get ya if they can't talk to the ground radar

B-17 Fortresses with No. 214 Squadron. These aircraft were crammed with newly developed, and secret, electronic devices. Murray recalled that, "We went to war without bombs but with Tinsel, ABC, Mandrel, Jostle and all the other countermeasures invented by the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern. The crew included a "Special Wireless Operator," a fluent German-speaking airman whose primary function was to tune his powerful jammer -- code-named 'Jostle' -- to the frequencies being used by the German night-fighter controllers and blot out their transmissions to their own questing night-fighters."



^Note the Telescopic 'Cigar' antenna...


Anyways... Stood to and waiting (im)patiently (At times) :salute:

[Scratch]

That would be a cool paint to have. I hope somebody does it.

[daytonite_andy]

She's looking lovely. Hopefully it will be bacon and powdered eggs for breakfast soon. P.S. Anybody seen my navigator?

[Roadburner440]

Those screens are impressive. Looks even better than it did in the video. After reading the manual I did not realize that the cowl flaps were hydraulicly driven... that should be an interesting failure if the pump craps out on you, or you run out of fluid in flight. Especially if you have the cowl flaps set for cruise.. better pray you don't have to go around, lol. I just see engines either catching fire/or dying completely. As long as the hydraulic pump doesn't fail as much as it does in my P-47D I think I'll be good. This is going to be a fun aircraft.

[Bomber_12th]

Luckily, R-1820's aren't prone to catching fire, or over-heating that easily. In most cases you have to be more concerned about keeping the engines warm, rather than cool, such as on descent.

[Lewis-A2A]

Found the projector, Damn limeys were laughing so hard at chaplin they didnt notice us when to got the thing back and the room when black!

Would post the vids here but they are a bit small here so ill just link over to Scotts post;

http://a2asimulations.com/forum/view...p?f=23&t=21394


Gawd knows what the limeys will be planning for revenge!

[Kiwikat]

omgomgomgomg

woohoooooooooooooo!

[Matt Wynn]

ok who ordered the RAF Bird, have her WIP, Noseart as 'Archangels Aces' (Archangel being my nickname on base), another few hours and she should be done... :salute: