I have the urge...

[Redroach]

just a quick sidenote to the OP:
Thankfully, with nowaday's forum software, where you get that nice multi-line posting preview, you can no longer bait the users into your thread... it was zilli and now it's history! Yeah!

Now carry on, lads! That was my daily good deed against the evil interwebs!

And yes, the TB3 is the most awesome plane in all of Il-2! Majestically cruising around at about the speed of an elderly dove, sitting in the open and enjoying the totally free view is just p-ri-ce-les-s!
That easily compensates for bombing and defending yourself with it...! ^-^

P.S.: I can't quite remember, sorry... there actually was an implementation of the carrier plane/parasite fighter configuration, right? Did that work online, with seperate human pilots in the parasite planes? Oh, how I would love to see that implemented in CoD... after all the other things, of course!