Volare!

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

Synopsis
The Boomers have dreamed of conquering the skies ever since they left Vault 34; they know of a crashed B-29 bomber in Lake Mead and seek to free it from the water.

Walkthrough

 * 1) Become idolized by the Boomers. This can be done several ways.
 * 2) Complete any number of quests, including Ant Misbehavin', Sunshine Boogie, Young Hearts, Bear Necessities, Iron and Stealing, Malleable Mini Boomer Minds, and Missing a Few Missiles.
 * 3) Help Argyll with his patients. A Medicine skill of 60 is required to heal all of them.
 * 4) Listen to Pete's lecture on the Boomers in the Nellis Boomer museum.
 * 5) Once idolized, report to Pearl in her barracks.
 * 6) 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 flotation ballasts to attach to the plane.
 * 7) (Optional) Get a rebreather from Jack.
 * 8) Proceed to the submerged crashed B-29 inside Callville Bay and attach the ballasts to the underside of each wing.
 * 9) Travel to Callville Bay; equip and activate Loyal's detonator to inflate the ballasts.
 * 10) Travel back to Nellis. Speak to Loyal, then speak to Pearl.

Behind the scenes

 * Volare! was outlined by Joshua Eric Sawyer and later fully implemented by Akil Hooper.
 * Volare means to fly in Italian.
 * Volare is the name of an Italian song by Domenico Modugno. An English version was later sung by, among others, 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.

Bugs

 * 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 won't move and will stand still forcing you to either leave the building, or reload 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).
 * It's possible to enter Nellis AFB at the gate via non-player character conversation in the middle of an active artillery barrage, unfortunately after doing so however, you continue to be barraged when leaving Nellis AFB later on.
 * 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.
 * 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. This may be connected to the dialogue option that "tricks" him into talking about the secret project, as immediately after he regrets telling you is when the "go to hell" repeat begins.