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Offline Airscrew

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« on: January 30, 2002, 09:07:04 PM »
This is a tale of woe, its sad indeed
the story of how AirScrew  lost his Luftwaffe steed.

He stayed up late after his squadmates had logged out
and decided to fly a lone Lancaster and help with the route.

He selected his munitions and launched with great care
with one notch of flaps the Lancaster was soon sailing on air.

He took his bearings and set his heading,
and decided the Knight Headquarters needed a banging.

Most of us know the Lancaster is slow, and not very thrilling to fly
so he went AFK to have a quick smoke and count the stars in the sky.

He wasn't gone long, ten minutes or less, and told everyone he was back.
But when he sat down he started to frown, "Oh My Gawd I'm under attack!"

A TA-152 was circling with glee,
Firing 20mm's at him like they were free.  
(He cried, ”oh woe is me”.)

He jumped to his guns and fired clatter, clatter
but he failed to make the 152 splatter,
and in no time at all his plane was in tatters.

His situation was grim as he rode his beast down and thought it was best to
just bail.
But his fingers were slow and he didn’t hit O and he smacked right into the
ground.

As he sat in a daze, his visions of glory fading off into the haze,
He wondered, “Just who was my killer?”
He wanted revenge no matter the cost, just like a cheap B movie thiller.

The System said Urchin is for whom he should be searchin and he began to plan his
demise.
He knew the 152 was deadly and quick so he selected a 262, wasn’t he wise?

He scrambled his jet with nary a fret, cause he practiced alot offline.
So as he climbed to the clouds, in his search for Urchin, he began to plan his attack.
He knew without a doubt this plane had clout and said “Soon Urchin will be mine.”

When suddenly around his plane there did appear puffs of black smoke, “Oh no the Flak factory is near.”
Panic? Not him, for his plane is small and oh so fast, he knew he had nothing to fear.

But wait, whats that he hears, a bang and a snap and now smoke he does smell,
He looks at his right wing, and it really looks like hell.
All that fire and smoke he knows this can’t be good,  “perhaps I can turn back…,”
Nope too late.

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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2002, 09:10:32 PM »
ROTFLMAO!!!  This poetry brings a tear to my eye :D :D :D :D
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2002, 09:28:14 PM »
Beautiful.

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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2002, 10:59:06 PM »
Lol.  Nice poetry :).  My sortie ended in disaster too.  After I got you, I bounced a TBM that was on its bombing run over one of the little factories.  I was climbing back out to get in position when I noticed a dot way out to my 3 OC.  I turned to climb south (putting it at my 9 OC).  As it got closer, I saw that it was a fighter and not a bomber like I had hoped.  I levelled off at about 15k, turned into him and began a shallow dive to build up speed.  He came into icon range.... and I saw the dreaded TEMP tag which I haven't seen in months.  I kept on diving, got up to about 400 mph.  I went to do a vertical lead turn at the merge and BLAM,BLAM.... my wingtips tore off.  Maaaaaaaan was I pissed.  I steered home using just the rudder, Disco'd before I could land it so I lost my damn perk points anyway.

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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2002, 11:40:16 PM »
Thats funny Urchin, because I was that Tempest.   After I lost the 262 I still wanted to get you and figured the Tempest was the only plane that might catch ya.   I figured I had already blown 200 perks whats 70.  I caught up to ya at 4.3d then you steadly pulled away,  I figured sooner or later you would have to land so I headed for the nearest knight field.   I saw your dot disappear and thought you where just out of range, that must have been when you discoed.  As I got closer to A1?, I saw several dots in the distance that looked like they were taking off, so I turned back, then said what the hell and turned back to ya, and circled around to the south of the field.   Didnt see you by then but I did see a B17 taking off.  So I circled back south east then north then turned back from the B17s low 3oc.  I popped up and practicely sprayed him from wingtip to wingtip, and got FedEx.
Then I saw more planes launch and hightailed it out of there back to the coast.  
I babied that tempest all the way down.

Best fight I never had, lol
AirScrew
« Last Edit: January 30, 2002, 11:43:15 PM by Airscrew »

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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2002, 10:46:37 AM »
Thanks guys, I'm glad you liked it.  I'm a little out of practice so my writing is a little rusty.  It took me almost 4 hours to write this,  did better when I colaborated with a friend of mine I was stationed with at Mtn Home, we use to write stuff like this all the time.

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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2002, 11:05:22 AM »
I hope you'll lose lot of perks soon again, coz' I want to read more of this!

Well written and funny....
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2002, 11:25:08 AM »
Hmmm humor in trade for my pain.

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« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2002, 11:36:44 AM »
LOL Tom, that's the funniest, most beutyfull thing I've read in a long time! !
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