bart Posted February 7, 2021 Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) I've been reading a few books about the covert special ops carried out by the RAF during WW2 using Lysander and Hudson aircraft to land agents into occupied Europe during WW2. It occurred to me that if we could get either one or both of these aircraft added to our WW2 hangar at some point it, would open up say the Channel map to simulate some of the flights these brave aircrew and their "passengers" carried out in the dead of night, by moon light. Navigating using just a map and compass to a pinpoint field somewhere in Europe, to then land in the dark with all the attached challenges this gives, not to mention being somewhat unarmed so having to dodge other players on a server to carry out the covert mission etc. this would be a whole new challenge for DCS WW2. What do you guy's think? For anyone who may be interested in finding out more, two brilliant books on the subject are "Flight Most Secret" by Gibb McCall, and "We Landed By Moonlight" by Hugh Verity. There's also lots of fantastic documentaries on you tube about the subject too. Here's a brilliant one The Night Pilot Who Helped The French Resistance | A Most Secret Service | Timeline - YouTube Leaves you in total awe of these brave men and women who carried out these missions. Edited February 7, 2021 by bart 3 System :- i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12 core, ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A Gaming, 64GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200MHz, 24GB Asus ROG Strix Geforce RTX 3090, 1x 500GB Samsung 980 PRO M.2, 1x 2TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2, Corsair 1000W RMx Series Modular 80 Plus Gold PSU, Windows 10. VIRPIL VPC WarBRD Base with HOTAS Warthog Stick and Warthog Throttle, VIRPIL ACE Interceptor Pedals, VIRPIL VPC Rotor TCS Plus Base with a Hawk-60 Grip, HP Reverb G2.
zcrazyx Posted February 8, 2021 Posted February 8, 2021 I would love a lysander for one. the thing is massive and the procedures are rather interesting, i believe there are a couple videos of them flying, one by shuttleworth no less. 1
Ghost79 Posted September 19, 2023 Posted September 19, 2023 On 2/7/2021 at 2:51 PM, bart said: I've been reading a few books about the covert special ops carried out by the RAF during WW2 using Lysander and Hudson aircraft to land agents into occupied Europe during WW2. It occurred to me that if we could get either one or both of these aircraft added to our WW2 hangar at some point it, would open up say the Channel map to simulate some of the flights these brave aircrew and their "passengers" carried out in the dead of night, by moon light. Navigating using just a map and compass to a pinpoint field somewhere in Europe, to then land in the dark with all the attached challenges this gives, not to mention being somewhat unarmed so having to dodge other players on a server to carry out the covert mission etc. this would be a whole new challenge for DCS WW2. What do you guy's think? For anyone who may be interested in finding out more, two brilliant books on the subject are "Flight Most Secret" by Gibb McCall, and "We Landed By Moonlight" by Hugh Verity. There's also lots of fantastic documentaries on you tube about the subject too. Here's a brilliant one The Night Pilot Who Helped The French Resistance | A Most Secret Service | Timeline - YouTube Leaves you in total awe of these brave men and women who carried out these missions. +1 to this. Conducting night time insertions in and out of enemy territory, landing and taking off from specially prepared 'fields'. Navigating in the dark using WW2 instruments alone would be a challenge. Listening for radio calls when near, dodging the Luftwaffe and land based troops. Altogether presenting a unique challenge and a situation not available in DCS at the moment. 1 Youtube channel @Flightenvy680
stuart666 Posted September 24, 2023 Posted September 24, 2023 The Hudson to me would make more sense. They used that thing for damn near everything, light bomber, maritime patrol, transport for special operations. Lysander? I love it as much as everyone does. But after you picked up the first half dozen agents, what do you do with it? You cant play it online because its going to get trashed, and has damn all weapons anyway.
Slippa Posted February 13, 2024 Posted February 13, 2024 I’d like a Lizzie. Amazing history. They’d need a fighter escort for MP though, yeah. Not always completely unarmed but they’re not gonna be in any dogfights for long. It’ll probably never happen but I’d snap it up if it ever did. What they all did in the dark is incredible. 1
CyberCopter Posted September 16, 2024 Posted September 16, 2024 I love the idea of a Lysander, and though I would buy one I don't see how ED could make enough money for that to happen. While I adore the Hudson, I would opt for a Douglas A-20G Havoc. This is mostly because of it's multi-role capability, optimization for single pilot operation, devastating armament options, and lively performance. I love the Mossie too, but multi-crew is a problem if you want to make a module that will appeal to the most people. The Havoc served in all the areas that DCS has maps for too.
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