HMS Eagle Carrier ops in BHaH

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

Hi all

 

Just downloaded HMS Eagle, with it's WW1 repaint..as I really fancy trying to land on her in an OFF Pup or something.

Anyone know how to do this?...is there a mission file somewhere?

 

Any help most welcome

[Slartibartfast 153]

You mean there's a Carrier out there for BHaH

 

Whatever next???

[itifonhom 6]

     I got to admit I don´t follow..... carrier in OFF? Download? What? How? ...... ??????  .......   ????

 

 

 

 

                                  Anastasios

 

 

[Bullethead 12]

Just downloaded HMS Eagle, with it's WW1 repaint..as I really fancy trying to land on her in an OFF Pup or something.

Anyone know how to do this?...is there a mission file somewhere?

 

Does it come with a bunch of rope loops hanging from your plane and a whole gang of guys who run out on deck and pull you down by them as you more or less hover over the wind-over-deck?

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

http://www.combatfs.com/index.php?loc=downloads&page=info&FileUploadName=Capt.%20Winters&FileID=6072

and then the is4g carriers file

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&FileType=cfs3-ships&page=downloads&ammm=15&pap=1#download

 

 

though pretty useless without a mission

Edited January 15, 2010 by UK_Widowmaker

[Bandy 3]

Its not the landing so much (if I remember correctly aircraft mostly never returned but landed on shore or ditched) but the take-offs with incipient catapult technology were hard on the pilots.

 

Useless? Give it some time...

[RAF_Louvert 101]

.

 

WM, here links to a couple of threads where I mention using this carrier for my Dardanelles Campaign Project:

 

Dardanelles Project Video

 

Dardanelles Project Update

 

Should answer some of your questions for you Sir, as well as showing the HMS Eagle / Ark Royal in action.

 

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Edited January 16, 2010 by RAF_Louvert

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

Hi Lou

 

Thanks for that...did that campaign ever come to fruition?

[Bullethead 12]

The Aircraft Carrier Existed in WWI, they just weren't too plentiful, or successful

http://en.wikipedia....HMS_Furious_(47)

 

Don't forget HMS Argus:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-a/argus11.htm

 

When the war ended, the Brits were actually in the final stages of preparing a "Pearl Harbor" type attack on the German Fleet in Wilhemshaven. Argus would have played a key role, using the new Sopwith T.1 Cuckoo torpedoplanes. They were also going to use Shorts from the seaplane carriers, plus fighter escorts, IIRC.

 

Sometimes a makeshift ramp was built on the Gun Barrels, with the catapult being a counterwieght, dropped from a makeshift tower

 

By 1918, nearly every Brit battleship and battlecruiser carried aircraft atop 2 of their turrets. Each ship carried 1 Strutter for recon and 1 Camel for air defense (as in shooting down Zeppelins). Quite a few light cruisers also got aircraft platforms over the forward gun in 1918, too, mostly Pups. A Pup launched by HMS Yarmouth shot down Zeppelin L.23 on 17 Aug 18. On 11 Aug 18, a Camel flown off a barge towed by the destroyer Redoubt shot down Zeppelin L.53.

 

Depending on where they launched, these planes would either fly to land or ditch. IIRC, most of these planes were modified with flotation bags inside the fuselage, so they could be hoisted back aboard, dried out, and reused. To make ditching easier, they could jettison their landing gear.

 

Even though Aircraft on Floats Did Exist, they were so lightly constructed. They'd never survive being hoisted onto the ship ( even at home port )

 

And IF you built it on the ship, how do you keep it together, when you hoisted it to the water ?

 

I have to disagree with you on this one. All navies in WW1 had seaplane carriers and the RN especially made extensive use of them. The 1st carrier air raid in history was actually done in 1914 by the Japanese during the siege of Tsingtao. The British weren't far behind with a number of raids on German Zeppelin sheds, including one on Christmas Day 1914. Plus, they used seaplanes a lot to spot for shore bombardments, such as at Zeebrugge and Gallipoli.

 

Also, during the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, the British seaplane tender Engadine successfully launched and recovered a seaplane, which spotted some of the German fleet before having to abort due to mechanical problems. This was the 1st aerial recon mission during a naval battle. The pilot who did it, a certain Rutland, called himself "Rutland of Jutland" ever after.

[Olham 164]

Not to forget HMS Ark Royal (the 1914 one):

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_%281914%29

[Guest British_eh]

Hi there:

 

 

 

The HMS Eagle was adapted, and like Unlceal indicated, a P1 add-on. However, I also built several missions for it’s use in P2. P3 is another story. It is unlikely that OBD will adapt it, but perhaps, if someone wanted to take on the project, they could update it to be included as an add-on. I sent the files off to Capt.Winters in August 2009, but haven’t had a reply, nor seen him about.

 

Someone could possible sort it out, as I think it would be a great addition to our fleet.

 

Cheers,

 

British_eh

Edited January 18, 2010 by British_eh