Oswald Bastable

Thuds SEAD

Really cool Spinners!

Well I added some early B52Hs to the strike mission from a package in the downloads area. This isn't the newest B52s that Dave has been working on but I think he worked on this package in some capacity. Everything started out OK But then things got interesting... At first I thought the USAF Thunderbirds had hijacked my B52s but then I realized that they were doing evasive maneuvers and probably needed to be set up as individual planes instead of a twelve plane squadron. I thought some flak had gotten some of my Big Birds but closer look I realized two bombers had collided Of course all this jigging and jagging made a horrible bomb run

Dangerous maneuvers, crazy AI pilots in B52s

Great work and thanks for the history of the different models! Been reading books about "Linebacker" but I didn't understand the B52 differences.

Just curious about the differences. Seems WoE handles better Hud avionics or is it just the later planes that are available in WoE?

Thanks for the info

Thanks! Yes I was curious if I added a newer plane if it would be able to use an advanced HUD. I was thinking of the bombing HUD in the later A-7 models

Yes Dave I agree :)

Changed the mission to 1972, should be some flak over Hanoi You are F-4E escort for Austin, 4 cells of B52s. Two hunter-killer groups of F-4s & F-105s precede you in SEAD missions. Download Mission file

Cool thanks! I am really enjoying WoV. Nice flying your planes!

Rainy Day Strike, great pic! wow, you can see the shock waves through the mist

How does WoV handle this? I guess you shouldn't be able to put the plane on auto-pilot and fly nap-of-the-earth if you plane doesn't have this? Seems it does though.

Thanks! Been reading stuff about the Linebacker missions. Going to have to make a couple NOE (Nap-of-the-Earth) missions for the F-111. Has anyone actually just flown by terrain radar though heavy fog and night? might be a challenge

On the Attack Air Battle Thud Ridge Check 6! Buffs over Thud Ridge Heading Home

On the Attack Heading Home

I guess whenever you tell your wingman, flight or squadron they drop tanks automatically anyways. I have noticed that on hard settings the flight model is so tough that I can't wait to drop tanks.

B52 crash I just happened to be on wiki looking up B52s (to get an idea of Max and Cruising speed) I got side tracked for several minutes reading notable crashes of the B52. I didn't realize how many had crashed with nuclear weapons Notable accidents On 24 January 1961, a B-52G broke up in mid-air and crashed near Goldsboro, North Carolina, dropping two nuclear bombs in the process. On 14 March 1961, a B-52F-70-BW carrying two nuclear weapons experienced an uncontrolled decompression that required it to descend to 10,000 feet in order to lower the cabin altitude. Increased fuel consumption at lower altitude, together with its inability to rendezvous with a tanker in time, caused the aircraft to run out of fuel. The aircrew ejected safely, but the unmanned aircraft crashed 15 miles (24 km) West of Yuba City, California. On 24 January 1963, a B-52C on a training mission out of Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts experienced trouble and crashed into the side of Elephant Mountain near Greenville, Maine. Of the nine men aboard, only two survived the crash. On 17 January 1966, a fatal collision occurred between a B-52G and a KC-135 Stratotanker over Palomares, Spain. The two unexploded B-28 FI 1.45-megaton-range nuclear bombs on the B-52 were eventually recovered; the conventional explosives of two more bombs detonated on impact, with serious dispersion of both plutonium and uranium, but without triggering a nuclear explosion. After the crash, 1,400 metric tons (3,100,000 lb) of contaminated soil was sent to the United States.[3] In 2006, an agreement was made between the U.S. and Spain to investigate and clean the pollution still remaining as a result of the accident.[90] On 21 January 1968, a B-52G, with four nuclear bombs aboard as part of Operation Chrome Dome, crashed on the ice of the North Star Bay while attempting an emergency landing at Thule Air Base, Greenland.[91] The resulting fire caused extensive radioactive contamination, the cleanup of which lasted until September of that year.[3] Following closely on the Palomares incident, the clean-up costs and political consequences proved too high to risk again, so SAC ended the airborne alert program the following day.[92][93] On 31 March 1972, a B-52D, AF Serial No. 56-0625, departed McCoy Air Force Base, Florida on a routine training mission. Assigned to the 306th Bombardment Wing, the unarmed aircraft sustained multiple engine failures and engine fires on engines #7 and #8 shortly after takeoff. The aircraft immediately attempted to return to the base, but crashed just short of Runway 18R in a residential area of Orlando, Florida, approximately 1 mile north of McCoy AFB, destroying or damaging eight homes. The flight crew of 7 airmen and 1 civilian on the ground were killed.[94] On June 24, 1994, a USAF B-52H crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, during an airshow practice flight. All four crew members died in the accident. On 21 July 2008, a B-52H, deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam crashed approximately 25 miles (40 km) off the coast of Guam. All five regular flight crewmembers plus an additional flight surgeon/observer were killed.[95]

I just figure it is a loss of frame rates to have it on. Lens flares still show up in the Cockpit mirrors even with the option off.

Just focused on WoV at the moment. Hope to provide some full scale Linebacker missions eventually. Reading a copy of LINEBACKER: The Untold Story of the Air Raids over North Vietnam Karl J. Eschmann I'll probably try to modify the mission to play in '72 next, should be a lot a Air Defense. Two other flights of 105s are still on Strike mission. I'll probably change them into SEAD or Wild Weasel,

I guess it isn't hard to have two versions of WoV patched differently, 08 & 06 ? I plan to get hyperlobby installed and look into Hamachi.

Too bad we can't save the mission generated. Perhaps the game makes a file somewhere we could grab? It would be fun to edit these.

Bombers were able to finally hit rail bridge in Hanoi. Interesting you can see the bomb shock waves because of the dusk lighting.

Decided to change the mission time to dusk, bombers coming in from the sun. Mission file Download

Working on my B52 project, bombers appear right away with you behind them. Heading out of Laos Bombers in route "Downtown" Bombs just short of target, many civilians killed Photo Recon pass Egress, lots of Flak Ooops