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Catfish · 08-09-05, 01:43 AM

Hello,
apart from the planes colliding in midair i had a PBY (Catalina) in 1941 (ok there already WERE some PBYs) that dived to drop its bomb - can you imagine a Catalina diving like a "Stuka" and level off at 30 metres ? Looked weird to say at least.
And to have more than one plane patrolling is completely wrong. Usually ONE plane would patrol its grid, and only call in for reenforcement if the boat a) would not submerge after attack and b) if the plane would not have been able to destroy the boat alone. There were never two Sunderlands, Liberators or B17s, maybe two Hudsons or several smaller planes near an airbase. Even with complete air superiority at the end of the war the allies never had enough planes to make one patrol for a small grid with multiple planes. Maybe we could change that ?
Greetings,
Catfish

08-09-05, 01:43 AM	#6
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,799 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Hello, apart from the planes colliding in midair i had a PBY (Catalina) in 1941 (ok there already WERE some PBYs) that dived to drop its bomb - can you imagine a Catalina diving like a "Stuka" and level off at 30 metres ? Looked weird to say at least. And to have more than one plane patrolling is completely wrong. Usually ONE plane would patrol its grid, and only call in for reenforcement if the boat a) would not submerge after attack and b) if the plane would not have been able to destroy the boat alone. There were never two Sunderlands, Liberators or B17s, maybe two Hudsons or several smaller planes near an airbase. Even with complete air superiority at the end of the war the allies never had enough planes to make one patrol for a small grid with multiple planes. Maybe we could change that ? Greetings, Catfish