#3735340 - 02/14/13 01:18 PM
Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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What is the chance we'll see more Seaplanes perhaps a German Float Bomber or any converted aircraft, or even a Zeppelin in RoF? Even if it was AI. This would be a great thing, particularly at night as an AI Object much like a ship that could be part of a larger mission, escort or intercept, maybe even be able to man gun positions. Although I don't think it would be much fun to fly, it would be interesting as a crewable platform. I know that many different common aircraft were converted to a float configuration, is there any chance that this could be done as a field mod or does it require too much work to add that to a model? Just bought the Channel map and you know, wheels turning and all that..
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#3735401 - 02/14/13 04:04 PM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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I really hope you're wrong, I would pay good money for a Zeppelin!
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#3735532 - 02/14/13 08:21 PM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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Even if it were only in the mission as a moving object and after dark to keep the mystery about it, lets hope it will come one day.
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#3737006 - 02/17/13 07:31 PM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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I'm not so sure, there's a few people working on zepp models now under the radar. Of course 777 would have to implement them, anything beyond AI would be surprising, but you never know.
12 months ago who'd have said we'd have seaplanes and a channel map now?
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#3739216 - 02/21/13 12:01 PM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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I also would gladly pay for a Zeppelin. +1 (And I'd also be happy to pay for a better mission editor.)
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#3750695 - 03/14/13 11:41 AM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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Been searching around the net for anything on floaters and conversions but can only find a few pictures and not much documentation and besides the ones we already have the dedicated designs are not very appealing. A few pics of some observation planes we already have converted to floats but not much in the way of dedicated fighters although I know I have seen some a long time ago just can't find anything on them now(besides the Sop. Baby and a Hanriot HD4). Anything having floats would need to be very robust and IMO probably not very maneuverable as a fighter but it would be kind of fun to have something with a forward firing MG on each side to go on the offensive over the water. OTOH the golden age is full of all kinds of Seaplanes and Flying boats who knows maybe we'll see some in the IL-2 series (wink** nudge**).
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#3751061 - 03/14/13 09:42 PM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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For the Entente side the Shorts 184 and Sopwith baby would be good, also I think there was a DH4 float conversion.
German, maybe the FF33 for bomb capability or there's the FF44, big and cool but not many were built, also there's the Albatros W4, Rumpler 6B, and of course the excellent HB W29.
A year or go I wasn't that fussed about WW1 seaplanes but the two we have are so much fun I'd like to see a few more added.
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#3751236 - 03/15/13 04:39 AM
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Zepplins would cool although not critical for life for me. I think in the grand scheme of things I would like to see more objects for the Channel Map, some of the few aircraft not yet modeled and so forth. Big, explosive gasbags would be fun to shoot down but to me it is like the Stuka that people clamored for in Aces High a few years back. People wanted it until the realized they wouldn't live too long in it. Then the novelty wore off.
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#3751519 - 03/15/13 04:12 PM
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For the Entente side the Shorts 184 and Sopwith baby would be good, also I think there was a DH4 float conversion.
German, maybe the FF33 for bomb capability or there's the FF44, big and cool but not many were built, also there's the Albatros W4, Rumpler 6B, and of course the excellent HB W29.
A year or go I wasn't that fussed about WW1 seaplanes but the two we have are so much fun I'd like to see a few more added. You mean the FF.49? The Gotha W.D.14 would make an excellent naval bomber. The F.B.A "H" makes a decent french light sea-plane too.
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#3751615 - 03/15/13 06:14 PM
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For the Entente side the Shorts 184 and Sopwith baby would be good, also I think there was a DH4 float conversion.
German, maybe the FF33 for bomb capability or there's the FF44, big and cool but not many were built, also there's the Albatros W4, Rumpler 6B, and of course the excellent HB W29.
A year or go I wasn't that fussed about WW1 seaplanes but the two we have are so much fun I'd like to see a few more added. You mean the FF.49? The Gotha W.D.14 would make an excellent naval bomber. The F.B.A "H" makes a decent french light sea-plane too. Nah, I meant the FF41. The "Spider Web" mentions encounters with large twin engined German seaplanes, only the FF41 seems to fit the bill.
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#3751973 - 03/16/13 11:19 AM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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Hi, I would love (and pay) to have a Zeppelin in RoF, since there were more than a hundred of them built in the war, this is more than some plane type we already have. Certainly they were almost all different from each other while improving their capability, so i take it the team would have to concentrate on one model, or class. (Zeppelins have been sorted in Alphabet classes after the war (e.g. p- or q-type), to distinguish them.) There were also the rigid Schuette-Lanz airships of course, loooking a bit like Zeppelins but having a lot of technical differences, beginning by using a wooden skeleton, instead of the Zepp's duraluminium frames. Apart from that the british naval branch built more than 200 airships of the blown-up 'Blimp' types, from the SS to the C-star classes, along with few rigid airships, and the blimps alone would also be a great Addition .. just saying. And lots of great seaplanes to build as well ... I very much like the Friedrichshafen, Rumpler and Albatros types. Maybe one day ...
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#3752031 - 03/16/13 02:15 PM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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I like the odd ball, different type of aircraft and a Zep is on my wish list. It will never happen because this community is ruled by the online dogfight group of kids that have no real interest in something that they cannot turn and burn in.
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#3752034 - 03/16/13 02:21 PM
Re: Seaplanes and Zeppelins
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For the Entente side the Shorts 184 and Sopwith baby would be good, also I think there was a DH4 float conversion.
German, maybe the FF33 for bomb capability or there's the FF44, big and cool but not many were built, also there's the Albatros W4, Rumpler 6B, and of course the excellent HB W29.
A year or go I wasn't that fussed about WW1 seaplanes but the two we have are so much fun I'd like to see a few more added. You mean the FF.49? The Gotha W.D.14 would make an excellent naval bomber. The F.B.A "H" makes a decent french light sea-plane too. Nah, I meant the FF41. The "Spider Web" mentions encounters with large twin engined German seaplanes, only the FF41 seems to fit the bill. You might find this interesting: http://riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=32556
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