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Tavingon 07-12-2012 09:00 PM

An interesting Idea for a future mission.
 
Flight back to Britain was tracked by the Luftwaffe


Quote:
"It was the perilous 18-hour flight which saw Britain's wartime Prime Minister fly back from America while being hunted by the German Luftwaffe.
Winston Churchill had flown back across the Atlantic in 1942 after lobbying President Roosevelt over the Allied Forces' strategy against Hitler.
And given the flight risks and importance of the discussions, the long-haul voyage back to Britain was one of the most significant of the Second World War.
Now a rare family archive has captured the intimate moments of Churchill's flight, including pictures of the wartime leader at the controls of the Boeing Clipper flying boat RAM 'Berwick'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...light-war.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...14_634x415.jpg

von Pilsner 07-12-2012 09:09 PM

We just need the appropriate flyable plane and a new map... Or you could just circle the map we have for 17 hours and then go for a landing. :D

I think this would have to be done in a different (probably commercial aviation) simulator.

Tavingon 07-12-2012 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by von Pilsner (Post 443994)
We just need the appropriate flyable plane and a new map... Or you could just circle the map we have for 17 hours and then go for a landing. :D

I think this would have to be done in a different (probably commercial aviation) simulator.

I wonder if that flying boat had defensive armaments!

bongodriver 07-12-2012 09:53 PM

Nope....it's a civvie plane, can even see the civvie reg on the side, I don't even think there was a top hatch for a gunner to point a gun out of.


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