[Guest]

Count again - I see ten

The jets were added late in the production. Anything close to 1946 would of had 6 radial's without the jets.

Is that A C-74 I see lurking in the background? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-74_Globemaster And I thought that was massive plane. Holy C**p. hock:

[Bearkiller72]

will the airfields be big enough? Still, it's a moot point unless someone fancies having a go at making this.

But a good point, nonetheless. Moving a B-29 on a standard, in-game airfield is tough enough, putting aside the fact of sufficient runway length when being fully loaded...

[jzoopster49]

Given that Il2 1946 presumes greatly accelerated deployment of German and Soviet wunderwaffen with no real rationale, I'd love to see the B-36 (piston engine only version) in the sim. The B-36 was put in development when it looked likely that Britain might fall the Nazis and the US might eventually have to mount cross-Atlantic bombing missions. Priority was very low due to the production need for B-24s and B-32s and then the bomber was never really needed. But for "what if" scenarios the B-36 would be a great Wallie "super plane" Had a reason been presented to accelerate the B-36, one can imagine operational squadrons by 1946. Add the P-82 and all kinds of mayhem can be imagined over the skies of occupied France in 1946!

[Guest]

Of course we'd have to have the YB-35B right along side it and the P-82 and XP-61F for escorts.

[Zorin]

Hm, how many X-4 hits could she probably take? :twisted:

[Baco1170]

Loved teh video man!
What is it they are testing beneath it, in the last shots of that video?
Sure looks a lot like the wings of an SR 71, but its probably aerodinamic tests for the wings of the Husler right?

[DK-nme]

Sorry guys, but the b-36 is butt-ugly!!!


DK-nme

[Guest]

Maybe, so... All bombers can't be beautiful. Still, would you really want one of those things trying to kill you? Just one, not even a whole squadron, just one... How would you like to have around ten Mark 6 nuclear bombs or about four Mark 14 thermo-nuclear bombs dropped on your head from a bomber that came from a base over 3,000 miles away? I would dare say that you would not like that very much at all. Ugly, maybe... Deadly, h*** yes...

[jzoopster49]

Of course we'd have to have the YB-35B right along side it and the P-82 and XP-61F for escorts.

And, have the bomber stream accompanied by special escort B-36's carrying F-85 Goblin hook-on fighters


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[shakthamac]

Sorry guys, but the b-36 is butt-ugly!!!


DK-nme

almost as ugly as this.

[P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole]

.... i like that one!

[Guest]

And, have the bomber stream accompanied by special escort B-36's carrying F-85 Goblin hook-on fighters

Depends on when you would be flying... The XP-61F and the P-82B would have been the choice escort around 1945-1946 for the YB-35B. By 1948 by which time you would have the B-36B, B-50A, B-45A, and, my personal favorite choice, the YB-49 as the new bombers of the new USAF. The XF-85 and F-82E would have been the extremely long range escort fighters of choice with the F-86A taking up shorter and medium distances. All of the planes listed for 1948 had their first flights either in 1947 or 1948 and would have made up the USAF under assumed war-time conditions in a heated Cold War or an extremely long WWII that resulted from a drastic change in history.

[JAMF]

almost as ugly as this.

Hands off of the British V-bombers. The Vulcan, Valiant and Victor are cool. :evil:

That picture shows the Victor.

[P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole]

almost as ugly as this.

Hands off of the British V-bombers. The Vulcan, Valiant and Victor are cool. :evil:

That picture shows the Victor.

Here here!

[Flanker35M]

S!

I once heard a slogan of the B36 regarding it's inital problems with the engines..was something like "four turning and two burning" Also read a comment that when it was used to simulate a incoming bomber and early jets tried to intercept it the bomber had to COME DOWN from it's altitude to make this possible..Just things I have heard, not stating as facts.