Multi-drop Air Supply
Posted: Tue 03 Jun 2014 1:27 pm
A good family friend my wifes family is a WWII veteran that served most of the war in the far east, he started on Blenheims in Burma whilst the RAF and commonwealth were being pushed back by the Japanese and was transferred to a Dakota squadron flying logistics operations. Throughout the mid war years he was dropping supplies onto smoke signals in the jungle supplying the Chindits and I think the US Rangers operating behind the lines frequently dropping on several sites per sortie and flying multiple missions a day sometimes.
Anyways it got me thinking about our own air supply missions and I wondered if its possible to
1) allow multiple drops where the planner simply types in the quantity of supply to be dropped at each location and if an human takes the mission the drops are made at the quantities in the sequence planned.
2) with the use of triggers is it possible to have a smoke object generated when a supply plane or even an allied aircraft comes within say 5km
Its a real privilege to know the old vets especially when he lives just around the corner and one thing he rocounted to me always stuck in my mind.... when he was 'volunteered' to a Dakota squadron he felt his chances of getting through the war were slashed terribly as he left his 'fighting' machine to fly a transport plane. But by the end of the war most of his mates who had stayed on bombers had been killed or captured whilst he only saw Japanese aircraft on a few occasions and every time he did see them they had at least one Spitfire on their tail! He told me that certainly near the start of the war the bombers were frequently sent without escort and were at the mercy of the intercepting IJA fighters, whilst Dakota drops were always skimming the treetops with Spitfires above on escort duty being transferred to a Dakota unit probably saved his life!
Anyways it got me thinking about our own air supply missions and I wondered if its possible to
1) allow multiple drops where the planner simply types in the quantity of supply to be dropped at each location and if an human takes the mission the drops are made at the quantities in the sequence planned.
2) with the use of triggers is it possible to have a smoke object generated when a supply plane or even an allied aircraft comes within say 5km
Its a real privilege to know the old vets especially when he lives just around the corner and one thing he rocounted to me always stuck in my mind.... when he was 'volunteered' to a Dakota squadron he felt his chances of getting through the war were slashed terribly as he left his 'fighting' machine to fly a transport plane. But by the end of the war most of his mates who had stayed on bombers had been killed or captured whilst he only saw Japanese aircraft on a few occasions and every time he did see them they had at least one Spitfire on their tail! He told me that certainly near the start of the war the bombers were frequently sent without escort and were at the mercy of the intercepting IJA fighters, whilst Dakota drops were always skimming the treetops with Spitfires above on escort duty being transferred to a Dakota unit probably saved his life!