CSA aircraft

Started by TexanCowboy, November 29, 2009, 06:49:19 PM

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Carthaginian

#45
August 29, 2010, 07:55:17 AM
The C.S.A. will be using Kamov gyros and choppers.
There aren't a lot of options, so I picked the first one I found.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
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We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

maddox

#46
August 29, 2010, 05:12:34 PM
Cool Kamov's as maybe flying (and hopefully ,frying) money pits

Carthaginian

#47
August 29, 2010, 06:10:04 PM
Quote from: maddox on August 29, 2010, 05:12:34 PM
Cool Kamov's as maybe flying (and hopefully ,frying) money pits

LOL... yeah. The CSA is willing to sink a lot into autogyros (and later choppers) for use as artillery spotters for their big gun ships.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

TexanCowboy

#48
August 29, 2010, 07:47:04 PM
That's not hindsight at all....

Carthaginian

#49
August 29, 2010, 07:54:57 PM
Quote from: TexanCowboy on August 29, 2010, 07:47:04 PM
That's not hindsight at all....

It's not, actually, as long as I develop it through plot.

1.) I have a flying machine that can take off in a short area.
This makes it good for working off of ships.
2.) This machine can fly relatively slowly.
This makes it good for watching a fixed point.

1 + 2 = 3.) it would make a good naval gunfire spotter.

So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

maddox

#50
August 29, 2010, 07:57:39 PM
Hmm

Short take off.   
Good loitering speed and time.


Sounds perfect for a Blimp.

Carthaginian

#51
August 29, 2010, 08:18:07 PM
Quote from: maddox on August 29, 2010, 07:57:39 PM
Hmm

Short take off.   
Good loitering speed and time.


Sounds perfect for a Blimp.

Item 4, then, would be 'low mission prep time' compared to a blimp.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

maddox

#52
August 29, 2010, 08:28:15 PM
There you got me.  Unless you got a mobile hangar that can turn in the wind...


Hmm, Blimp carrier ain't bigger than one of the Demarce III's...  Maybe that a IIIb Hull is a good subject for conversion....

Nope, to narrow...

P3D

#53
August 31, 2010, 12:34:24 PM
Quote from: Carthaginian on August 26, 2010, 04:40:17 PM
The CSA is, as always, working on some strange and interesting aircraft in La Paz.
The number of takeoffs currently greatly exceeds the number of landings... but they are slowly working on reducing the differences between the two.

:)

I haven't yet heard of any plane that managed to stay up :P
The first purpose of a warship is to remain afloat. Anon.
Below 40 degrees, there is no law. Below 50 degrees, there is no God. sailor's maxim on weather in the Southern seas

Carthaginian

#54
August 31, 2010, 05:34:03 PM
Well, the problem isn't that they can't stay up...
The problem lies in the manner in which they come back down.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

snip

#55
August 31, 2010, 05:54:15 PM
splash?
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when solider lads march by
Sneak home and pray that you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon

Carthaginian

#56
August 31, 2010, 06:24:17 PM
Quote from: snip on August 31, 2010, 05:54:15 PM
splash?

And, less often 'splat' when it takes place on land. :(
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

TexanCowboy

#57
August 31, 2010, 06:37:59 PM
KABOOM!?

Carthaginian

#58
August 31, 2010, 07:15:08 PM
Quote from: TexanCowboy on August 31, 2010, 06:37:59 PM
KABOOM!?

No, not with just some avgas aboard.
Most of the planes at La Paz don't even take off with a full tank (unless not doing so makes for bad balance) most of the time. Only on the rare occasion that they are doing final pre-deployment testing is anything really explosive (read 'munitions') even aboard.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

Carthaginian

#59
September 02, 2010, 07:55:17 PM
[fantasy]

*seen by a boatload of fishermen off La Paz on 09MAY1954*



MA-132 Cessna Hydra Flying Boat

[/fantasy]
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in old Baghdad;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.
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