Originally posted by SOB
False alarm, dangit...last night we had the most pile-its.
Yeah, so the one time I upped I had to fly 3 sectors to find a fight. Fortunately, I was in a C.205 so fuel wasn't a problem. By the time I got over the enemy island in mid-channel, I was at 30,000 feet.
and so was the Bishop Spitfire IX that came out to greet me. We did the high-speed circle bank turn thingy a couple of times until we got down to around 10k when I put some hits in his starboard wing, then he did a high-speed bank turn and I decided it was time to exercise some caution and kept going straight and converting speed to altitude.
So he disappeared off into the desert terrain somewhere, probably to land his wounded bird, and I proceeded to circle around and try to find a friendly to wing with, since the Bishops were starting to up from the base in numbers. Just about the time I found someone, I was on top of an LA-7 and a pair of Spitfires, so I went diving down looking for action.
I chose the LA-7 first, since he was the only plane that could catch me if I chose to exercise the better part of valor, but a Spitfire IX decided to throw himself in front of me so I had no choice but to shoot him down.
So I'm still chasing that LA-7 but now he's got some friends - the other Spitfire IX and now a Corsair that's come out of nowhere. Fortunately, all 3 of them were chasing one of the M7 boys, so I got in their low 6 and chased them around. I got the Spitfire IX, but not before one of them got the Magnificent 7 pilot.
Now I had the berserker rage going. I got a snap shot into a Spitfire IX that was doing a horizontal loopdy-loop like a shark in a feeding frenzy, landing some hits in his canopy but I didn't see any smoke or anything fall off. Right about then I looked off to my right and saw a Spitfire V putt-putting along so I winged over to get a solution on him, but he was wise to me and cut inside my turn. I went nose-down to get my speed back and caught the Corsair as he reversed a turn in front of me, knocking off his wing with a couple rounds of 20mm. We were fairly low now and he didn't have time to bail. Somewhere off above me I caught a glimpse of a Yak9. That was trouble.
Now I was on the edge of the cliff, about level with the airbase. A kill message came up - maybe it was the Spitfire IX I had snap-shotted earlier, maybe it was a prox kill; there wasn't any time to figure it out. I was heading straight for the enemy runway with a Yak somewhere behind me and a face full of Spitfires and LA-7s coming at me.
Right about then the shells hit my airframe and my only flight of the night was over. But hey, I bagged 5 kills.
