What's your most memorable flight so far?

[Kubwak]

so me and my girlfriend were flying back in an airbus a300 from  vacation and suddenly the captain went on and told us we had to divert to a nearby airport.  the plane felt sluggish and the flight attendants lost all their smiles, hmmmm, and this guy in first class was reading a paper and you can see the paper was noticeably shaking.... i ended up anxious myself.

the plane was landing and you can see the firetrucks with their emergency lights blinking beside the runway.  we landed safely and met my cousin who worked in that airport.  he told us that we were flying with just one engine  we did not take the next flight and decided to spend a couple of days on the ground first.

the next time we travelled we took the boat and had a cabin all to ourselves:D

hmmm... am i in the right thread.....

[humble]

hehe, ok Kubek I'll bite. I'm sure that others especially the G.A. sticks will have 1st person stuff but....I was flying into Sao Paulo last year in bad weather (pretty common down there) and the pilot tried to get in with weather at Min. After aborting twice on final we started for 1st alt...then diverted to 2nd. After 10 min or so diverted back to original destination. 1 more aborted final before we touched down. Ran into the 1st officer in the can...they finally forced the last landing since they weren't certain they had fuel for more than 1 more pass and the captain felt he flew the approach nuts on...blew thru the min with no vis and literally picked up the landing lights as they flared on final.

[Turbot]

The 50th was 152 vs p51x2,  They were winging great.   So it occurred to me why not use it against them?    So experiment begins:  I padlocked one of em, at this point didnt matter which one.   I just made sure I always "attcked" THAT one.   Obviously wasn't long before that guy was on pure defensive pleading for help and promising any sort of favors to wingie to clear him.

Did a few B&Z passes to set the mood, or better put the "E" state.  Have both of them nose up - but still have the most scared one marked from the beginnning.  Went in like I was about to do try do in the "scared" one - but with an eye to the rear looking for the lead 51's would be saviour to commit.  Hi-gee up and over, lock on the would be hero (which can be in only one place) and BOOM Turbot's 50th kill in 152.

Did I mention I dont think any of this was over 10k? I upped a 152 and told my squaddies "This one isn't making it home "  and "I am goign to fly it like an A5 and see what happens".   I had no idea it would have turned out so well, and I landed that plane.


edit to add this to annoy the pony pilots :

turbot has 7 kills and has been killed 1 time in the Ta 152H against the P-51D.


I'm sorry but had to do that

[Cooley]

Though no great feat,,,,It was just my second day here,
We were goin for reset,,,one more base to go

Goons kept getting killed ,,,,,I decided to give it a try,,,,but it was my first time in this c-47,,,spent 5 min making sure i had troops,

as i got close,,,more of our allied goons were getting blasted,
They asked on green chnl if anyone else had troops close by

I wouldnt reply,,,,figured i was gonna mess up anyway
all the sudden im over the town,,doors open,,,,,all out

40 guys watchin,,,,,reset!
40 wtg's from my new allies on second day here,was pretty cool

[gofaster]

Great stories!  The TA-152 log is a good one.  So is the C-47 "This is only my 2nd day" town capture.

Laying the smackdown on the insiders has its own rewards that can't be measured by a scoring system, right Crabofix.

Shiva's Panzer story is my next goal!

[MotorOil]

AHhhh the memories

1.  Killed a 262 with an M16.
2.  Downed 3 Lancs on one pass in a 262.  (wish I could have heard the cursing that must have gone on at that guy's computer desk)  Think I had a B17 kill also the same flight.  Landed with half my ammo.
3.  Every kill/flight in a Tempest - love those 20s
4.  Had a couple of high angle head on kills where I was lucky to get a hit and the bad guy never had a shot.  My La5 vs a Yak with ten guys chasing him, blew the Yak up completely.  Then my F4U-1D vs a P51, sprayed, prayed and had it answered with the 51 loosing a wing.
5.  Drove an Osti on to a Bish field who only had 3-4 fields left at the time.  They were uppin like mad Bishes and I was parked next to a hangar to sheild myself from approaching GVs and blasting at everything that upped.  13 kills in about five min including 1 panzer, 1 osti 1 M16.  I think a tank drove up behind me to get the kill.  It was a one pinger.  That was fun.

[Lazerr]

21 in P38l with no reloads.  The sortie was all air to air kills and took around 40 minutes.  I had to rtb from 1 ping pilot wound from lanc:rolleyes:

[Hristo]

When I was bounced by Tuck in his Hurri IIc. I was in Fw 190A-8, he dove after me, I simply pointed nose down and leveled at the deck. He never came closer than 1500 yds.

After that I started high speed climb and soon was above the poor Hurri. We were alone all the time and I made about 5 passes, each time he would try to flat turn into a HO. After a brief snapshot he loses a wing. He couldn't run away or out E me, so it was rather inevitable.

What was so special about the fight ? It was so dull and predictable, it must have pissed of Tuck pretty much. He started lamenting on open channel of no skill dweebs, boring BnZ passes and such .

Then he upped at near field in a Yak 9U, me still in A-8. He climbed well above and sure enough, there he was diving at me again. I knew I couldn't outrun it and maneuvering is not my kind of game (), so I just dove to near ack. The ack boys didn't do quite well and Tuck died only after gtiing my aileron.

The channel 1 whining was fantastic after that, makes me smile when I remember it.

Second most memorable would be dragging DFALCO in his Lame-7 to my ack. I was in D-9, he was closing and probably carving anothe kill mark, but I had a friendly airfield hidden behind the ridge. Just as he came to d6-7, we zoomed and ack did the job.

[anton]

It was back in AW, I was in the RCAF, we decided to do a stuka raid for fun, we really had no intention of success- just a mission to fill the text buffer with comments. Was at least 15 stukas we all stayed together & covered each other, most dropped succesfully on target, many had kills & I dont think we lost anyone on that mission.  I miss that siren.
Anton

[hogenbor]

The very first kill I landed

I took off in a Bf109G6 with the 30mm loadout. Was my second or third day, I can't remember. Saw an A20 do an attack on the town and flee. Nobody else was around so I gave chase. Closed in after a while and succeeded in avoiding his return fire, he obviously chose to switch between hard maneuvering and shooting back. He dragged me to the deck, pretty hairy with zero experience! Started shooting at ranges from 600-300 and saw hits. What I did't know was that the poor ballistics of the 30mm are modeled in AH so I was wondering why I had to hit him so often.  But after I had expended nearly all my ammo (I obviously only hit him with 13mm rounds) he plunged into the sea. I actually was pretty pleased with myself as he could neither hit nor evade me. I was shaking all over, literally dripping with sweat and saturated with adrenaline when I bounced down the runway. Quite nice to see the wtg's after I announced to the world that I had landed my first kill.

I chose this story because I couldn't log in yesterday and flew a bit off-line. Found out that one tap on the trigger (2 shells, no MG's) in a 30mm Bf109 explodes a drone Mustang!

I also have fond memories of the night where I landed multiple kill sortie after multiple kill sortie in my FM2 defending an airfield from a CV attack and of my first goon drop, to resupply the HQ which was warmly welcomed by my countrymen. Also the base defense when I got 5 kills in a Mossie in two sorties for one loss I fondly remember.

Worst experience? Being used to very bouncy landings in BF109s without anything breaking and then breaking a SpitI on landing with three kills under my belt and being unable to land P47's on a regular basis :-s

[Nifty]

had lots of fights to remember.

first kill in AH was on my very first sortie in the MA.  got an La-7 while flying a F4U-1D.  I think I died 20 straight times after that.  

Me and TeeeRex in La7's vs Leviathn in a Spit V many months ago (if not over a year).  fight lasted several minutes with me finally getting Lev.  He forced overshoots constantly in that fight, with the alt ranging from about 15,000ft to 7,000ft.  It never got near the deck.

Most memorable recent kill was Wed night.  Flying the Yak-9T for the first time, I hit Tumor with the luckiest 90 degree snapshot with the 37mm.  Was a prayer of a shot from about 250 yards out and landed just aft of his cockpit and exploded the plane.  The kill cleared a fellow Knight furballer's 6 which made it even sweeter.    I say luck because I really haven't figured out how to use that cannon yet.  I just am amazed every time I fire and see a hit sprite with that thing!  (oh yeah, Tumor did get revenge on me a sortie or so later)

[Corrs]

Originally posted by anton
It was back in AW, I was in the RCAF, we decided to do a stuka raid for fun, we really had no intention of success- just a mission to fill the text buffer with comments. Was at least 15 stukas we all stayed together & covered each other, most dropped succesfully on target, many had kills & I dont think we lost anyone on that mission.  I miss that siren.
Anton

I flew with Anton in the RCAF, and that is definatly one of the most memeroble flights. Just the sounds of those sirens when all 15 or so Stuka's dove on the targets was awsome. We had the base down in no time, I had taken out the last fuel cell that destroyed the base while others were getting kills with the Stuka BB guns. Those were the days....

[hazed-]

my last one...... any further back and my memory ceases to work

[hogenbor]

Yesterday...

I flew a few missions from a CV to support an attack on a knight field. At first it was pretty one on one, but I managed a few kills. At a given point we got the upper hand and I found time to grab some alt. Saw two spits very occupied with shooting one my of friends in an F4U. Just before I could help out they got him but I managed to hit one Spit on the first merge, outfought the other one easily (plenty of E to burn) and then turned around to finish the first one off who tried to get away with a damaged engine. Got a few vulch kills, and then crashed upon landing on my carrier because it was turning hard. Pity. After that I got an unbelievable killing streak, with one reload in between. We were capping the field and there was much to vulch. Not hounourable but fun and I also got a P51 or two coming in to help from another field. I felt completely in control and whenever I squeezed the trigger I hit something. At a certain point I had to rtb ammo and returned to my carrier. When approaching I found out that my tanks were almost dry and then that the carrier I saw was an enemy one! Turn away and then my engine cut so I had to bail. Damn, had the chance to land approx 20 kills in an FM2!

Still got an unbelievable (for me) 30+ perk points. Friggin great! 20 kills, zero damage!

[Cyric]

Probably the most fun for me was when a base of ours was under attack and I upped from another base.  My main goal was harrasment and distraction and if I could pork some fuel.  I used a la 7 and a tiffie to do these sorties and on one sortie a 262 was landing.  So I zoom in and just as he is about stopped ready to land boom I get him, and I was originally diving down for fuel tanks.  By this time I had 2 on my 6 so I loop back over dive down again with wep on and lo and behold the 262 is upping again.  OMG my lucky day I think and kill the same pilot again.  I was so excited about killing the 262 pilot twice that I forget the rest of that sortie but I know it ended with about 5 on my 6 finally getting me.  I tell my squadies about it becuase the 262 was harrasing them at our base that was under attack.  Then soon after one of my squadmates is telling me someone is on channel 1 saying crap about me.  Well I would be mad to losing 400 perk points in the space of a minute so I didnt respond.  However 2 of my squadmates were having fun with him on channel 1.

What I really like the most is when I get goood 1vs 1 dogfights when no one else is around.  Heck to me its fun to duel for 10 min with just one enemy.  There are several pilots out there that are fun to fight against because they are so good and if your one of those pilots I've fought alone with thanks for the good fight you gave me even if you got me in the end or I got you.

I look forward to more good fights in the air with you all.