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B-29 Superfortress Bockscar 1.2 by Uncle T
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Era: WW2
Category: Military
Type: Plane
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19 Aug, 2022 @ 2:20pm
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B-29 Superfortress Bockscar 1.2 by Uncle T

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Description
FOR VERSION 1.2!
It's now fully made of oak and some aluminium instead of mainly foam, some oak and some aluminium and it flies a bit like a brick sadly. Up and down is alright, rolling and turning is atrocious. Be warned. Fly it like my Caproni Ca.42 - speed and altitude and nose down before you try to roll/turn.

My version of the famous Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Bockscar that dropped the nuclear bomb over Nagasaki.

It's an approximation, not a 1:1 replica.

The B-29 had a rather large crew of 11: Pilot, Co-pilot, Bombardier, Flight Engineer, Navigator, Radio Operator, Radar Observer, Right Gunner, Left Gunner, Central Fire Control, and Tail Gunner. All 11 corresponding seats are in the plane.

This is the "Silverplate" version of the plane used for dropping the nuclear bombs over Japan. All armour plating was removed and only the tail turret remains to save weight. It also carries extra fuel in the rear bomb bay.

Bockscar carries a payload consisting of 1 Fat Man nuclear bomb in the front bomb bay.

Alt controls to fly.

W/S: Variable throttle.
S: Ground brakes.
A/D: Ground steering/Yaw.
Up/Down arrow: Pitch.
Left/Right Arrow: Roll.
X/Disable steering: Landing gear. *
Hold X/Reverse steering: Bomb bay doors.
Fire action 1/Num 1: Drop Little Boy. **
B/Beacon: Fire in engine 1.
K/Hazard lights: Fire in engine 2.
L/Headlights: Fire in engine 3.
(Alt+)PgUp-PgDn/Auxiliary: Fire in engine 4.

Camera 1: Bomb sight.
Camera 7 and 8: Left and right unner's viewing cupolas.

Alt + Arrow keys + Fire action 1/Num 1 or Mouse for all turrets from their respective seat. Camera numbers in parenthesis.
Tail turret (6) is controlled from the tail gunner's position under the tail fin.

* Also extends the tail bumper that prevents the rear ventral turret or the tail itself from scraping the ground on take-off. This was a real feature.
Red warning lights in cockpit and for flight engineer when landing gear is up.

** I added a thruster to make the Fat Man fall nose down more reliably.
The extremely annoying randomness of the game sometimes sends the bomb into the plane, or any which way but down, but it works most of the time.
The bomb is set to explode a bit off the ground. Sadly the boom is not very impressive. :)

Due to limitations of the tools in Brick Rigs and also due to the plane's design (and my lack of patience and abiility) there is a lot of clipping of the guns and other parts, and I know some areas are rough to say the least.
This is also why the flight controls do not move. They clip through the main windscreen and just go mad if they have any moving parts.
It is what it is, but the plane flies well and drops a nuke so... :)

Feel free to edit, but if you re-upload publically in any way please acknowledge the original creation and creator.

Have fun!
17 Comments
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Mean Green  [author] 25 Apr @ 11:02am 
I\m glad you like it. Use this version instead which is adapted to the changes in aerodynamics in version 1.3 of the game so it flies vetter in the current version of the game
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2922010142
RAPCIOR X_X 25 Apr @ 10:19am 
this looks cool but japanese peoples in heroshima in 1945...
My2Scents 20 Aug, 2022 @ 11:36am 
Alright!
Mean Green  [author] 20 Aug, 2022 @ 2:45am 
I'll see what I can do with all my old planes eventually, no time frame though.
My2Scents 19 Aug, 2022 @ 7:52pm 
Are going to make the b-24, like your previous one?
Thank you again!
My2Scents 19 Aug, 2022 @ 7:29pm 
Now we just need to rest!
My2Scents 19 Aug, 2022 @ 7:28pm 
Wow nice!
Mean Green  [author] 19 Aug, 2022 @ 6:39pm 
3(2) So basically smaller planes can be made ok-ish but with surprises and "dynamic" issues (like my Stuka that nosedives uncontrollably for some reason after the bombs are dropped) and larger planes are basically fooked if you think they should be able to actually fly like a plane and not just in a straight line.
Basically the same assessment I've made since relase og 1.2 but with a small change of opinion on smaller planes, some can be made to work ok, but there are a lot of weird issues that can pop up at any time it seems.
Mean Green  [author] 19 Aug, 2022 @ 6:31pm 
2(2)
Planes with greater wing spans though like my bombers are just broken. You can do a loop(!!!!!) with my Superfortress which has a realistic top speed with a full bomb load , but you can't roll past 1/8-1/4 of a roll before it just stops rolling due to the immense loss of speed.
So take off, fly, climb, dive, but if you want to roll and/or turn you'll soon find trouble. basically you need to fly the Superfortress like my Caproni Ca.42 - veeeeery patiently and turn slowly in increments with enough altitude to constantly push the nose down to not lose too much speed.
It's so broken it's not even funny. A loop, sure, a roll? NOPE!
Not to mention the amazing infinity loops you can get caught in because of the dynamic lift depending on angle of attack and the drag and weight issues.
Mean Green  [author] 19 Aug, 2022 @ 6:26pm 
1(2)
Smaller ones work ok, even though the more "dynamic" and less linear fluid dynamics makes it very hard to trim planes properly, and the HUGE drag of exterior bombs and the HUGE impact on a plane's flight characteristics the tiney fins on a bomb or two can have and the huge emphasis on weight are just broken features IMHO.
Rolling is completely broken. Every time you try to roll you automatically pitch up, losing even more speed than jsut the roll, and you lose an even more ridiculous amount of speed in 1.2 than in 1.1.3. My Lightning went from 600 kph to 160 from ONE roll. Also since the aielrons are SO speed dependant you can start a roll bit lose so much speed in the first few degress of it that it just won't continue, and you lose even more speed trying to go back and then you fall out of the sky stalling. Utterly broken. It was bad enough before with speed loss when rolling and turning but now it's utterly broken.