The Broadie Device

[TacitBlue]

So my boss was telling me about a thing used during World War 2 that enabled a light airplane to be landed on a cable.

[JBaymore]

Wow... thanks.

Totally bizarre idea.

best.

.................john

[Flying Trucker]

Wow...excellent find and quite the rig.   ;)

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[ShaneG_old]

Also, is it even possible to do this in FS?

I'm betting it would be.

With some of my MAIW packs,
they place some way points for the AI up in the sky
that include an 'invisible landing area'.

[beaky]

They also launched from this device!! Supposedly it worked quite well, and the recon info provided by these extremely brave pilots was very useful.

Some LSTs were also converted to "mini aircraft carriers"... possibly easier to duplicate in a flight sim...


http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l16/lst-386.htm

[eno]

Didn't the Germans have a similar thing for launching and retreaving an aircraft from their military airships?

[beaky]

Didn't the Germans have a similar thing for launching and retreaving an aircraft from their military airships?

I don't think so, but at one time, the USN did...

http://www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-a ... kron-macon

[ShaneG_old]

Didn't the Germans have a similar thing for launching and retreaving an aircraft from their military airships?

I don't think so, but at one time, the USN did...

http://www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-a ... kron-macon

That had to take nerves of steel to catch! 

I have the USS Akron, with it's satellite plane as an addon for FS9.  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[TacitBlue]

Wow, cool link, Sean! I find airships to be fascinating, but I know very little about them. I didn't even know that the Navy gave them "U.S.S." names. It would be just plain awesome to see one of those behemoths in the air.

[eno]

Didn't the Germans have a similar thing for launching and retreaving an aircraft from their military airships?

I don't think so, but at one time, the USN did...

http://www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-a ... kron-macon

I knew I'd seen it somewhere ..........