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#4495315 - 10/31/19 08:48 AM “Realism” question on bomb dropping  
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Quite new to the world of two-seater careers in WOFF and have a Fee career in 1916 and a Re8 career in 1917.
Been practicing bomb dropping in QC and was going to try a “drop one bomb at a time mod” to facilitate practice and to maximize damage in the campaign. WOFF Default is all bombs drop at once.

But for Campaign “realism” could the Fee and Re8 drop bombs singly (pairs?) or is “all at once” historically correct?

#4495317 - 10/31/19 08:53 AM Re: “Realism” question on bomb dropping [Re: DukeIronHand]  
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Interesting question.
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#4495439 - 10/31/19 10:14 PM Re: “Realism” question on bomb dropping [Re: DukeIronHand]  
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From what I've read and from photos I've seen, the pilot or G/O could drop bombs individually or all at once. On the Fee, if memory serves, there was a lever you pulled that released the bombs, and the farther you moved the lever the more bombs you dropped. Pull it to the first detent and the first bomb dropped, pull it to the second detent and the next one dropped, and so on. Pull it all the way back and they all fell. Of course, in the early part of the war the bombs were simply dropped by hand over the side of the cockpit.

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#4495445 - 10/31/19 10:45 PM Re: “Realism” question on bomb dropping [Re: DukeIronHand]  
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Excellent. Thank you Lou, as always, for your vast store of knowledge.
I shall go with the single drop mod so I may smite the Hun properly.


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