Volare!

Volare! is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Quick walkthrough

 * Once you're liked by the Boomers, report to Pearl in her barracks. She tells you about the Boomers' dream of raising a sunken bomber, the B-29.
 * Talk to Loyal about the airplane, he tells you it's at the bottom of Lake Mead. He will give you Loyal's detonator and two floating devices to attach to the plane.
 * At this point, you can proceed directly to the submerged airplane, or get an optional rebreather from Jack to let you breathe underwater indefinitely. The Courier must have a science skill of 45 or a pressure cooker to obtain it.
 * Travel to the map marker to find the Crashed B-29, near Callville Bay. Attach the ballasts to the underside of each wing.
 * Travel to Callville Bay, and Loyal's detonator will start to beep. Equip it and fire.
 * Travel back to Nellis and speak to Loyal then Pearl to complete the quest.

Detailed walkthrough
Volare! is the final quest you'll complete for the Boomers, and the first you will receive upon entering Nellis.

You need to help Boomers around Nellis enough to become Idolized by them. Possibilities to ‘help out’ and achieve fame are: It's not necessary to do all of them, just to achieve enough fame.
 * Young Hearts
 * Ant Misbehavin'
 * Sunshine Boogie
 * Bear Necessities
 * Malleable Mini Boomer Minds
 * Helping Argyll with his patients
 * Listening to Pete in the museum
 * Giving scrap metal to Jack
 * Giving missiles to Raquel

After gaining reputation, report back to Pearl in her barracks. She tells you about the Boomers' dream of flight.

Talk to Loyal about the airplane. He will tell you that it is at the bottom of Lake Mead. He will give you Loyal's detonator and two flotation devices to attach to the plane.

At this point, you can proceed directly to the submerged airplane, or get the optional rebreather from Jack to allow you breathe underwater.


 * If you want the rebreather, talk to Jack before you set out. Jack will offer to give you a rebreather, but requires you pass a Science check (45) or bring him a pressure cooker, which you can find from Field's Shack near Nellis Air Force Base

Travel to the map marker to find the Crashed B-29, near Callville Bay. Quickly dive under and attach the ballasts between the two engines on each side of the bomber under the wings. Once you reach to those parts of the plane, you'll find a hollow 3D image of where you are able to place the ballast.

Once both of the ballasts are attached, travel to Callville Bay (fast traveling to Crashed B-29 map marker will safely put you in a desired spot on the pier). At Callville Bay, Loyal's detonator will start to beep, indicating you are in the correct position. Equip Loyal's detonator as a weapon and fire it to raise the plane.

Travel back to Loyal and speak with him (optional Intelligence(7) check, no impact on the outcome). Then talk to Pearl to complete the mission, further raising your reputation with the Boomers.

Bugs

 * It's impossible to place the ballasts on the B-29. Simply reloading a save will fix this.
 * If you have a standard 'Detonator', you won't see the Loyal's Detonator in your inventory. To fix this drop the standard detonator.
 * The plane can sometimes not rise to the surface when using Loyal's detonator, even when it is triggered while it is beeping.
 * If this happens, try un-equipping and re-equipping the detonator, or possibly even switch between different weapons, and then try again. Note that Loyal's detonator is different than the generic Detonator (Fallout: New Vegas).
 * If you haven't completed Young Hearts then the plane may not surface. Doing this quest seems to fix it.
 * After returning to Jack to tell him the plane has risen and on the way to talk to Pearl the game freezes. Haven't found a way around it yet.
 * Sometimes, only "Liked" rank of fame is needed to be able to report to Pearl. After the B-29 event and talking to Pearl, your rank will become "idolized".
 * Sometimes after completing the quest, the bomber in the hangar will not be repaired. It will look the same as if you did not start the quest. Note the fix on the Nellis Hangars bugs section.
 * Sometimes after completing the Sunshine Boogie quest, when you try to talk to Jack he will say "Go to hell outsider, stay away from me" whether you failed the Young Hearts quest or not, making it impossible to obtain the Rebreather.
 * Sometimes when you start the history lesson at the museum in Nellis AFB, Pete will begin talking about the boomers, then when he finishes his first part of the speech, he wont move and will stand still forcing you to either leave the building, or load the game.
 * Sometimes Loyal will not be in the hangar after this quest, making Raul's side quest useless since you won't be able to talk to him. He will not appear in his home either, he can likely be found glitched into Black Mountain (still making the quest useless).

Behind the scenes

 * Volare! was outlined by Joshua Eric Sawyer and later fully implemented by Akil Hooper.
 * "Volare" means "to fly" in Italian and Latin.
 * "Volare" is the name of an Italian song by Domenico Modugno. An English version was sung, among others, by Dean Martin.
 * A B-29 did crash in Lake Mead, mostly intact, in 1948.
 * The sequence in the museum may be a reference to a famous similar sequence in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" in which a group of children tell Max the story of their town through cave paintings.

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