Simviation Forum - The Broadie Device

Jun 16^th, 2010 at 9:21am

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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. Shocked

After a little searching I found these two sites:

Military History Online
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Aerofiles, this one has a few photos.

It's really neat stuff and I thought you guys would be interested.

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

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Reply #1 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 9:34am

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Wow... thanks.

Totally bizarre idea.

best.

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Reply #2 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 9:57am

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Wow...excellent find and quite the rig. Wink

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Reply #3 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 10:15am

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TacitBlue wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 9:21am:

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

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'.

If you created that rig as a scenery object,
and then gave it the arrestor cable gauges,
and placed one of those 'invisible landing areas' within it,
I wouldn't see why it couldn't be possible.

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Reply #4 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 3:17pm

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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

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Reply #5 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 5:48pm

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

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Reply #6 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 6:11pm

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eno wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 5:48pm:

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-airships/uss-akron-macon

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Reply #7 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 7:09pm

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beaky wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 6:11pm:

eno wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 5:48pm:

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-airships/uss-akron-macon

That had to take nerves of steel to catch! Shocked

I have the USS Akron, with it's satellite plane as an addon for FS9. Smiley

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Reply #8 - Jun 16^th, 2010 at 9:15pm

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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.

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Reply #9 - Jun 19^th, 2010 at 4:56am

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beaky wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 6:11pm:

eno wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 5:48pm:

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-airships/uss-akron-macon

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

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