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Why There Aren't Many Bomber Sims

18.7k F104Deathtrap  6.0 years ago

Sure, there are bombers in WarThunder, but heavy bombers like the Lancaster or the Peacemaker are notably absent from most sims. Why is that? Because for the most part you just fly in a straight line for hours and hours and hours, that's why. Most of a day, in fact. The busiest job in a big 4 engine bomber actually belongs to the flight engineer. He's the one that manages all the engines, generators, turbochargers, fuel tanks, cabin pressure, oxygen, and basically keeps the plane from falling out of the sky.

Check out this old training video and you'll get a small taste of just how tedious it got keeping a big bird in the air before computers took everything over.

USAF B-29 TRAINING VIDEO

Fun fact: The narrator is Ronald Reagan, LOL!