Thank You Hazed, and Camo, Snefens, etc

[SC-GreyBeard]

Last night I had probably the most fun I've had in a long while in AH.

Been taking a break from flying the last month or so, so have seldom been in, but thought I'd stop and see how it went.

Joined Camo, Snefens and a few other Rooks in a "Sink the CV" mission, which went great, rejoined for a jabo raid, where we stumbled onto another CV and sank that one two. Rejoined for a "capture a field" mission, went as smooth as silk. Dropped my c-47 in as the last bombs and straffing runs by the tiffies dropped the lone BH, as my drunks took out the maproom.

Did a couple jabo runs, got a couple kills, then decided to up a b-26 to help on a distant target.

Ran across a 190 enroute to target, or rather he and two buddies kinda chased me down.

the two buddies I think pulled off to deal with a couple friendlies, and the 190 and I, proceeded to dance.

Twisting and turning, trying to get my guns to bear, the 190, counter moving and constantly finding great vectors to avoid them. High speed passes by him, Hard cranking turns into him by me. Loops, Immelmans, wingovers, screaming dives with wings moaning, going for the floor and possibly escaping only to be forced to turn into him again. 1 of his buddies returns to get met by a hail of rear turret fire, and he goes down.

Back to the yanking the stick, hard banking, near blackout, wings screaming, turning and rolling.

Seemed to take 45 minutes. Was probably only about 10 or so.

White knuckles, hand on the verge of cramping on my stick..  I finally get near one of my own bases and the AA saved me.

Hat off and a big SALUTE to Hazed.

And to my fellow Rooks on those missions.

Had a BLAST!!!!!!!!

Thanks

 



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GreyBeard, Squadron Leader
Commander, "B" Flight, Aces High
Senior Staff Council
"The Skeleton Crew"
"Fly with Honor"[/i]
"Keepin' the Faith"

[Eagler]

welcome back SC-GreyBeard

Eagler

[Dingy]

You were dogfiting Hazed's 190 in a B-26 for 10 minutes?  My God, Hazed!  What has become of you!!??  

Welcome back Grey  

-Ding

[hazed-]

you're welcome greybeard   and thanks...but next time 'DIE WILL YA!!'  

really enjoyed it too <S>

hazed

dingy 190a5 peashooters and some great flying by greybeard  

[This message has been edited by hazed- (edited 01-23-2001).]

[SC-GreyBeard]

Didn't say I landed without a scratch, far from it. Those peashooters on that 190 had made it sound like I was in the deep South during a hurricane hail storm under an old tin roof.

About the only thing left on my left wing was the gear, and I figure the tail was about to fall off. The only gun still working was my nose gun.

I was as surprised as hell that I'd managed to survive as long as I did, even more surprised when I saw Hazed trailing smoke and going down over my field.

One I won't forget for a LONG time.

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GreyBeard, Squadron Leader
Commander, "B" Flight, Aces High
Senior Staff Council
"The Skeleton Crew"
"Fly with Honor"[/i]
"Keepin' the Faith"

[LLv34_Camouflage]

Thank you Greybeard for letting us fly with you.  

The start of the AH day was good indeed.    But later it all seemed to go wrong... A few hours of frustration when the knits almost hammered us down...    

Until we decided to screw it and play into our own bag.    Which turned out to nice three one-hour-each fighter sweeps with a 3- or 4-plane.  2-5 kills each sortie, only one casualty to CV acks at about 20k...  

And in the end, the knits were suffering indeed.  

Had a blast again - it all goes down to this great bunch of guys!!  

Cya in the skies again!

Camo

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Camouflage
XO, Lentolaivue 34
 www.muodos.fi/LLv34

Brewster into AH!

"The really good pilots use their superior judgement to keep them out of situations
where they might be required to demonstrate their superior skill."

[DB603]

S!

 I was there too in those long sweeps.It was fun and I learned a LOT about formation flying and SA from Camo/BK/U know who U are.Thanx for that!And boy ain't that 109G-2 a nice plane to fly!

DB603