Fallout: New Vegas/Volare!

Volare! is a quest concerning the xenophobic boomer faction.

Completing this quest allows you to enlist their aid in the final battle, but it may be skipped simply by wiping them out.

Reaching the Base
The Boomers are at the Nellis Air Force base, located north-east of New Vegas. There are only two approaches to the base, either the roads to the left, or an underground railway.

Before you reach the bombardment area, you will encounter George who will warn you about the area up ahead. He offer a wager, 300 caps for the timing information on how to get past the bombardment, which may be lowered to 200 with a barter check of 40. If you can reach the base, your caps will be doubled. With a speech skill of 60, you can lie and extract an additional 100 caps after completing this wager.

Since most couriers will go through the buildings, you will want to equip light armor to increase movement speed. In the set of buildings, there are a few with high cover in the north-east corner. Running towards these will protect you from the howitzer shells. When the howitzer stops, exit the cover and run towards either the next building or the fence.

There is also a locked underground railway that may be used. It requires a lockpick skill of 100, and that route is a canyon that provides cover from artillery shells. Its entrance is somewhere east of Raul's Shack.

Reputation
The first task is to gain the trust of the Boomers. Obtain a reputation of at least Liked (if not Idolized) by asking around for tasks within the camp. Raising reputation for this group is easier than other factions, both because of relativly easy quests, and because there are several ways to be nice with them.

You can obtain reputation through the following steps:
 * Completing ../Ant Misbehavin'/
 * Completing ../Sunshine Boogie/
 * Completing ../Young Hearts/
 * Providing medical assistance to three injured Boomers.
 * Retrieving a teddy bear in the Hangar (located in a stack of crates near the entrance) and giving it to Lindsay.
 * Giving a Toy rocket or Dinosaur Toy to the Boomer children.
 * Collecting Missiles for Raquel.
 * Listening to the story of the Boomers in the museum, and using positive speech dialogue (with change of a speech check).

The bomber
Once you reach Liked reputation with the Boomers, you can speak with Pearl. If not, it will become available once you are Idolized. Pearl will refer you to Loyal to fulfill the dream.

Loyal will give you two deployable ballasts to be placed under the bomber, and refer you to Jack for a rebreather (unless you prefer diving with limited oxygen). With either a pressure cooker or a science skill of 45, Jack will complete the rebreather and give it to you.

Head to the marked location on the map. The bomber is located at the bottom of the lake, and the ballasts need to be placed at the marked locations between the two engines on the wings. Once they are in place, head to the surface, equip the detonator, and press the button. This brings the bomber up to the surface.

Return to Loyal, and let him know that it is on the surface. With Intelligence of 7, you can obtain additional story information as well as experience. Finish the quest by going to Pearl, and reporting success.