Well almost...
I never expected to able to get a 4 kill mission in a Yak.
This tour I decided I was gonna concentrate more on flying fun, and learning Jabo in AH, rather than exclusively flying to live and working on K/D.
So after several quite exciting jabo + multi kill flights in the P-47, I decided it was time to roll out the Yak-9U.
I took off from A1 to A2, and along the way bounced a 205. I burned alot of my E and several seconds of my fire, trying to get him before he "mysteriously" disco's just when he got low and slow. Not a good way to start a sortie I think
I continue on to A2, and arrive at the fight just as I see one of our fighters running away and trailing 2 Zeke's, 2 205's, and a 109. So I wait for the "Train O' Fighters" to go pass me and I roll over and dive towards the rear of the Train.
Now, my instincts tell me that the 109 is my most dangerous opponent and this case I should go after him first. But he is smart and he breaks away.
I know I should concentrate on the 109... but those Zeke's and 205's are
SO tempting and I give into the dark side and dive after them.
I close on the first zeke, that is tail end charlie... 1k... 700.. 200... 150. BAM BAM BAM BAM and the entire rear of the aircraft comes off and I keep charging after the next plane. He never looked back.
Kill.
Now I am coming up on a 205 and another Zeke not more than 100 yards apart in trail formation and maybe two wingspans of lateral seperation, I expect that even if I get one, the other will see me and break off.
Closer, and closer, I hold back knowing I gotta get in close and make it count with the weak guns of the Yak. I can't believe my luck that they don't look back in an extremely hot combat zone, blindly chasing my countryman.
At literally 80 yards I hammer the right wing off the 205 and immediately roll my guns onto the zeke without letting off the firing button. My cannon shells strike home from the left wingtip of the zeke and my roll walks the hits right onto the cockpit, and he explodes in a ball of fire.
Kill.
Assist (I assume he was pinged by someone else earlier in fight, and since I got a pilot kill, the other guy did more "damage")
By now my blood is racing
and I'm quickly closing on the last 205 that is chasing my buddy. Its just unbelieveable that this guy hasn't looked back as I blow away his 3 countrymen and close on his tail very rapidly.
At about 200, I pull the trigger only to here my last single cannon shell go downrange, and I pepper him in the fueselage with my x2 12.7mm heavy machineguns.
Now here is where I screwed up. hehehe
I see white and black smoke start to stream from his aircraft as he pulls up very hard into the vertical to avoid my fire. My trusty Yak pulls thru the vertical with him and I keep the hammer down working on his wing now with my MG's.
Now all I had too do was to keep my nose down and keep going and I was home free. I knew in my gut that the 205 wasn't going to make it home, but I wanted to see him explode!!!
So I greedily go after him into the loop, and I look back to see that the 109 I let go earlier, is behind me on my six as I reverse into him. He gets some hits into me as I go over the top, but no critical damage.
About now my sense of self preservation starts to overcome my greed, and I see that the 205 is going for a ditch (thats the last I saw of him, and I assume he made it down without cracking up since I didn't receive a kill award). So I continue the loop and point my nose down to run, I evade his fire, and I finally get a little seperation, and I start to think maybe I am actually going to get away.
Then another 109 shows up at my high 12
One in front of me with E, and another at my six just out of gun range which is between me and my base.
I pull up into the vertical against the one that just arrived, as I hear my trusty Yak come apart all around me.
You have been killed by Aper.
Gawd that was the most fun I have had in AH in months. It was great
even though I didn't make it home.
And I would never have guessed that the Yak had enough ammo to down 4 aircraft. Of course two were Zeke's but.... but still 4 boogies down
Salute to all involved, was great fun and a memorialable sortie!
{Edit: And you want to know what the worst part was?? I forget to turn on my freekin gun cam. Arggggghhhhhhhh.
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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"
[This message has been edited by Vermillion (edited 07-23-2000).]
