Convoy dropped out of the sky

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Dowly

It´s my edited version of the Isitol´s skin. Hack in to my computer & download it and BRAVO, you have it!

I take that as a challange

[jasondef]

To what challenge do you refer to? Hacking his computer, or the U-Boat land invasion!

[Dowly]

*Double checks the firewall and wrotes a note to himself; do NOT download anything made by Letum-- might contain spyware*

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Oberon, I just have to ask this-- Is that 'photo' edited??

Sure looks like it.

It's a combination of three pictures, one of a Wellington, one of a Flower corvette and one of the sea

[VonHelsching]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Show me any WWII-era plane that could lift 750 tons of ship and I'll give you my life savings.

I have to confirm the first post of Oberon. After all, silence does not matter since more than 50 years have passed:

Similar experiments have been conducted by the Luftwaffe in the Greek Aegean sea. The codename of the Operation was Himmel Donnerschiffe "Thunder-ships from the sky", also known as the Convoischlag Blitz "Lightning Instant Convoys", where small tankers (full with diesel) were transported by air means and dropped to their destination.

But if I'm to disclose additional information, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you.

[ironkross]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Did this happen while you were using time compression or were you playing at 1x when it occured?

Yes, I think I was- maybe 8x but not much.

[Dallass_Drake]

Presumably the crew were going for some kind of gag whereby you, their commandant would be associated with Flower Corvettes for the rest of your career which would from then on be full only of ridicule and questions regarding your sexuality. But we all know about the German sense of humour, likely they couldn't devise an amusing way to complete their scheme and froze, caught between a quickly passing opportunity for light hearted if highly dangerous humour or admitting to their superior that they've just sailed themselves straight into the face of certain death, the dreaded Flower Corvette, no longer would they mock its girly name.

Anyway, you should load a save game and liquidate them all for their insolence, just because you can. Pass by some air coverage and send them up to man the binoculars until all have been strafed and bombed, then dive down the deepest depths of the ocean laughing hysterically and die in a blaze of glory rather than at the hands of a Flower Corvette.

[ironkross]

Originally Posted by VonHelsching

I have to confirm the first post of Oberon. After all, silence does not matter since more than 50 years have passed:

Similar experiments have been conducted by the Luftwaffe in the Greek Aegean sea. The codename of the Operation was Himmel Donnerschiffe "Thunder-ships from the sky", also known as the Convoischlag Blitz "Lightning Instant Convoys", where small tankers (full with diesel) were transported by air means and dropped to their destination.

But if I'm to disclose additional information, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you.

Here's what I believe happened after very extensive research on a subject that has been clouded in mystery. It was called the "Stonehenge Experiment". (Loosely paraphrased from the hypothetical. )

The "Stonehenge" Experiment, otherwise known as Project Elbow, has been a subject of long controversy and debate. It was an attempt by the Royal Navy to create a ship that could not be detected by magnetic mines and-or radar.

There was also talk of invisibility projects and mind control experiments. The truth behind this project will never be known to the public.

However, results of these experiments became far different and much more dangerous than the Royal Navy ever expected. Although the story itself seems too bizarre to be true, far too many coincidences have occurred for it to not be based upon some small iota of truth. The technical data that has also been presented upon the subject hold far too much credence to be ignored. Many of the stories associated with this infamous experiment are wild: whispers of men 'freezing' in time for months, rumors of men traveling through time, and horror stories of men becoming stuck in bulkheads or even the floor of the ship itself.

In 1943 the (British)government conducted a test using domestic animals on a ship. The ship that was eventually used for the experiment, the HMS Drawbridge, was commissioned at the York Navy Yard on August 27,1943 (Department of the Royal Navy). The animals were placed in metal cages on the HMS Drawbridge. The ship became invisible but when it materialized many of the animals were missing on had radiation and other burn marks on them. Humans were not to be tested.

Yet on August 12, 1943 the HMS Drawbridge with a full crew aboard reportedly underwent the Stonehenge Experiment. The men did not know what was to happen. The generators were fired up. The switches were thrown. The ship disappeared and all seemed well.

Four hours later it returned to its original place. There was a greenish haze on deck. Some of the sailors were on fire. Some seemed insane. All were sick. Some had heart attacks. Some were dead. Some were part of the super structure of the ship, buried in the deck or walls of the ship. Some reports said that men just seemed to disappear and were never seen again.

But where had the ship gone for 4 hours?

Now I know. It was on top of my frickin U- Boat!

[jasondef]

Didn't the Americans do a similar "Stonehenge" experiment, documented in a 1984 movie "The Philadelphia Experiment"? I don't remember much, saw it when I was a kid, but I remember the end of the movie the ship reappeared with men half in the bulkheads and stuff. Supposedly these were based on actual secret events in 1943.

[GOZO]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Not so, in 1941, Coastal Command, working alongside the Royal Navy came up with the Air-Dropped Ship (ADS) program, known to the Kreigsmarine as the 'Luft-Konvoi'.
Below is a rare picture of the Luft-Konvoi being tested by a specially modified Wellington off the Suffolk Coast at the Orford Ness testing grounds.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by ironkross

Yes, I think I was- maybe 8x but not much.

See this thread.

[winters]

Whenever weird things like that happen just say to your self "Self, a wizard did it" :rotfl:

[ironkross]

Originally Posted by jasondef

Didn't the Americans do a similar "Stonehenge" experiment, documented in a 1984 movie "The Philadelphia Experiment"? I don't remember much, saw it when I was a kid, but I remember the end of the movie the ship reappeared with men half in the bulkheads and stuff. Supposedly these were based on actual secret events in 1943.

Pay close attention to the line: (Loosely paraphrased from the hypothetical. ) Cut & pasted from article on Philadelphia experiment, while loosely substituting British terms for comedic effect. In other words- just kidding.
:rotfl:

[ironkross]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

See this thread.

Speed was slow, periscope depth (with periscope raised and hydrophone operator on station), weather was cloudy but no fog. Time was late afternoon but before twilight. That's an interesting set of benchmark tests though. While your test sub were surfaced, mine was running slow and submerged so my question was why didn't my hydrophone detect something as large as a convoy? If it was really there before the collision occurred.
I have a save game from just before I recieved my first contact radio report. I could go back and try to recreate this mess.