Today, self-admitted dweeb MOSCA (currently augering somewhere in Aces High) joins the ACCS squad and gets his first kill.
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MOSCA BREAKS HIS CHERRY:
Well, there's a story to this one, but honestly I'm just too excited to
make it up. However, about a month ago I made the bold promise to BLAST
THE NAME of MOSCA'S FIRST KILL on alt.games.air-warrior, and also on
bigweek.general. (I also promised cam footage at
www.epix.net/~tholts, but unfortunately that will not be there, because 1) I changed ISPs to
get lower delays and 2) I forgot to turn my gun cam on.)
One cannot make such a bold prediction and then continue to buzz around
like a... fly, constantly bothering everyone without delivering on the
promise, so I've kept my keyboard quiet, done a lot of offline practice,
read a lot, & gotten shot down a lot. I've purposely avoided bigweek,
you guys are more of a veterans group & I respect your posts that read
like nautilus shells, clauses within clauses dwelling on ever smaller
minutae until someone like homer or Sluggo (JackG0504; I got the handle
right this time) busts them apart with a well-placed salvo. But now I am
here.
Anyhow, after stumbling around for almost 3 months, I got an e-mail from
a person known as "Gnatz", who invited me to fly informally with a group
known around these parts as the "ACCS".
(Cut to mosca coming home for dinner. The family is sitting around the
table.)
DAD: You're late.
MOSCA: You know I gotta work late on Sundays. (He sits down & starts
shoveling spaghetti into his mouth.)
MOM: Working on Sunday, it's a sin, mosca. And slow down your eating.
Don't you like my dinner?
DAD: You heard your mother! Slow down! (He reaches over & hits mosca's
hair)
MOM: NO HITTING AT THE DINNER TABLE!
MOSCA: I gotta hurry. I'm flying with a buncha guys tonight down at
[CENSORED]. (a secret base deep in c-land)
DAD: [CENSORED]? Isn't that where that sheep cult hangs out?
MOSCA: It's not a cult, Pop. They're like a gang of really cool guys,
y'know, and....
MOM: A GANG? NO SON OF MINE IS GOING TO JOIN A GANG! OHH, NO, A GANG!
OH, MOSCA, WHAT
WOULD YOUR GRANDMOTHER SAY IF SHE FOUND OUT?
DAD: ITS THE ACCS, ISN'T IT? I BET THEY'RE A BUNCH OF NICE GUYS! I BET
THEY TOLD YOU THEY'D
TEACH YOU ANIMAL HUSBANDRY! THEY'RE JUST GOING TO USE YOU FOR
THEIR OWN PLEASURE
AND LEAVE YOU IN THE GUTTER WITH A BAD CASE OF SCRAPIE! (He
reaches over and really slaps
mosca's hair again)
MOSCA: He hit my hair! I work a long time on my hair and what does he
do? He hits it! You don't understand! All you ever
do is criticize everything....
Well, you get the picture. That's the only part that I can get to come
out. The rest of it's just stuck. Sorry.
Anyhow, after missing a couple of appointments with Gnatz & Wedgie & the
rest of the crew, I caught up with them last night. I did a lot of
clueless stumbling around, as usual, and finally set my machine on
autopilot & read the part in the manual about how to use the radio (page
96) so's I could hunt'n'peck out a simple "hey, gnatz" (I think it was
"mbaaa"), & we all met at [CENSORED]. At which time I was given an
assignment, a real mission!
I mean lets face it, being a lone newbie in FR is like walking around
unarmed in a bad part of town, looking to pick a fight with the toughest
bullies you can find. Virtually speaking, of course. It's nice to have
some pals to show you how to navigate.
So I get the assignment to take a Hog to, I dunno, some airfield
somewhere, & take out the ack & then just generally keep the place under
submission until, I dunno, until something else happens, I don't know
what, just follow the other guys I guess, & do what they do & act like I
know what I'm doing too; Hey, the Az don't know, I might be a ringer,
right? Just look tough! Anyhow, what's a Hog? Oh. A Corsair. OK. And I
gotta learn, "cc", not "ok".
About halfway there, I wonder where top speed is, & with <esc>a I find
out I have a bomb on board. I'm starting to understand what the plan is
now.
Well, I know most of you've done this stuff thousands of times before,
but it's still all new to me. I follow these guys into this place, the
ack's supposed to be at a refinery, it looks like it's on the other side
of this mountain I see, but I don't think any of us hit it because the
flak is just BOOMING all around me, & I drop the egg & hit the WEP &
pull up to the left over this mountain....
And it looks like some one kicked a hornet's nest, with all these planes
swarming all over! Check the icon colors! Who's who?
There! Red! Oh, man, overshot 'im! Throttle back. Turn. Watch the stall.
Check 6. Check 6 again. Throttle up. Where'd they go? Oh. Everybody's at
6. Immel up? Stall! Catch it, ya dweeb. Spiral, right rudder... there.
And oh, man! right in front of me, at maybe 1000 yards, is an Me109 just
clawing for altitude! But it's just not there for him. He looks like
he's hanging helplessly from the sky on a string, and his belly turns
toward me as I slow down so's not to overshoot & of course get more time
in the saddle, and at just about point blank that Messerschmidt just
goes BOOM! right in front of me! HAAAIIIIIYAAAH! LETS HEAR IT FOR EYE
CANDY!
But there's no time to rejoice! Quick check 6, & up top too for that
matter. There's another! Squeeze.... BOOM! I LOVE IT! TWO FOR TWO, BABY!
(Later I found that I wasn't credited with that one. So what. It felt
like I hit it, so to me, I did.) Circle round, right wing down, look at
the field.... Oh BAY-BEE! Two on the runway! Oh, I been stuck like that
before, payback's a squeak, honey, here comes daddy to even the score....
Of course, here is where eternal dweebdom reasserted itself, as MOSCA
proceeded to auger himself into the runway just ahead of the lead FW. I
just hope he wasn't laughing too hard to take off; but if he was
laughing as hard as I was that guy didn't have a prayer.
I went back to [CENSORED] and got another egg, but morning comes awfully
early around the mosca household & time was running out for fun & games,
& I was really just too excited to get back into it & do it right, &
this time the flak got me. But hey,
>GDI< ,
I saw your Messerschmidt in my dreams all night last night. Thanks.
mosca
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