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Title: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: 4440 on October 22, 2011, 05:40:36 PM


Need some able bodies to fill out the 88's and 190-F8's.   I can tell you now, those two squads will be the difference in this one.
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Wagger on October 23, 2011, 10:14:54 PM
I am currently registered with I/Jg27 but would like to withdraw from this squadron and fly with I/SKG10.  One of my squadron mates is flying for them and would like to join him.

Wagger.
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Brooke on October 24, 2011, 12:00:48 AM
I am currently registered with I/Jg27 but would like to withdraw from this squadron and fly with I/SKG10.  One of my squadron mates is flying for them and would like to join him.

Wagger.

4440, let me know if you are OK with that, and I will move him over.
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Wildcat1 on October 24, 2011, 08:59:11 AM
Sweet!! :cheers:
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: 4440 on October 24, 2011, 09:15:37 AM
Go for it Brooke
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: gyrene81 on October 24, 2011, 11:00:41 AM
Sweet!! :cheers:
you can blame me later when we're flying around at 15k and he's at 25k two sectors away asking where we are. but he will get the radar tower once on target...  :lol
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Brooke on October 24, 2011, 04:38:32 PM
Go for it Brooke

Done.

And SKG10 is full.  :aok
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Wildcat1 on October 24, 2011, 04:45:22 PM
Done.

And SKG10 is full.  :aok

Wooohooo!!!! :cheers:

you can blame me later when we're flying around at 15k and he's at 25k two sectors away asking where we are. but he will get the radar tower once on target...  :lol

Fine, then I get first dibs when I find a squadron of low, unescorted B-25s ;)
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: StokesAk on October 24, 2011, 06:24:58 PM
Could use an extra body....i mean pilot for I/JG27 :)
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Guppy35 on October 24, 2011, 06:39:36 PM
Wooohooo!!!! :cheers:

Fine, then I get first dibs when I find a squadron of low, unescorted B-25s ;)


Hah!  I've got first dibs on any 190 fighter bombers trying to get to the English coast! :)
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Wildcat1 on October 24, 2011, 08:30:22 PM
Hah!  I've got first dibs on any 190 fighter bombers trying to get to the English coast! :)

Hah! Typical of the brits to single out one aircraft for slaughter... Such tactics are for the feeble-minded! what shall happen when the mighty jagdgeschwader pilots swoop in from above? You will be finished!

I accept your challenge, corky, pray we meet on equal terms, and when German engineering prevails, I do hope your airfields and ports feel the wrath of the butcher bird :aok
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Guppy35 on October 24, 2011, 08:41:43 PM
Hah! Typical of the brits to single out one aircraft for slaughter... Such tactics are for the feeble-minded! what shall happen when the mighty jagdgeschwader pilots swoop in from above? You will be finished!

I accept your challenge, corky, pray we meet on equal terms, and when German engineering prevails, I do hope your airfields and ports feel the wrath of the butcher bird :aok

What I have to hope is that cartoon life imitates history :)  May 25, 1943 4 Spit XIIs of 91 intercepted an estimated 15 190 fighter bombers of SKG10 on the deck headed into Folkstone and claimed five for no loss.  It's on the cover of the Osprey history of 91 :)

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/May25.jpg)
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: gyrene81 on October 24, 2011, 10:16:10 PM
anyone else ever notice in vintage guncam videos that the german pilots never dropped their externals? makes me wonder if it was from being stupid or stubborn or both...
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Guppy35 on October 24, 2011, 10:47:23 PM
anyone else ever notice in vintage guncam videos that the german pilots never dropped their externals? makes me wonder if it was from being stupid or stubborn or both...

I think it has more to do with the one you don't see gets you.  No time to react as the shells are thudding into you.  In the JG300 history there are some stills of a 51 getting hit by a 109.  Straight and level, tanks still on. 

Late in the game I imagine just the inexperience of some of the pilots the LW was sending up didn't help.

There's a book by a former 190 pilot called "Betrayed Skies".  I'll have to find the part where he describes that moment where he got hit.  Best description I've read.  He was one of those later in the game replacement pilots.  Absolutely in love with the 190.  His descriptions of getting in and flying it are enough to make you want to fly a 190.
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: IrishOne on October 24, 2011, 11:15:36 PM
anyone else ever notice in vintage guncam videos that the german pilots never dropped their externals? makes me wonder if it was from being stupid or stubborn or both...


i can't remember where i heard this, but IIRC Hermann Göring at one point forbid the fighter pilots from releasing their droptanks do to (shortage?)      i'll try to dig something up on it
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: B4Buster on October 25, 2011, 07:53:20 AM

Fine, then I get first dibs when I find a squadron of low, unescorted B-25s ;)


Hah! Typical of the brits to single out one aircraft for slaughter...

The Germanz are not only bad pilots, they're hypocrites, too!  :ahand
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: noTch on October 26, 2011, 12:05:21 PM
I'm in with the II/KG 6 to keep the ranks of the -=1st NASTY Thunder=- racing team together :rock :rock :rock
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Brooke on October 26, 2011, 12:18:45 PM
Alright, Notch! <S>
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: noTch on October 26, 2011, 01:38:14 PM
Alright, Notch! <S>

Missed the last Scenario cause of the time. Was gonna miss this one because I thought it was the later run scenario  :x  Glad it is back on early time  :aok


ps  The wife got me a beautiful A-2 jacket for Christmas, only hitch is, she won't let me put all the Scenario patches on :bhead
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Brooke on October 26, 2011, 03:41:48 PM
The wife got me a beautiful A-2 jacket for Christmas,

Nice!

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only hitch is, she won't let me put all the Scenario patches on :bhead

I understand -- can't really blame her for that.

However, there are these low-end MA-1's for $35.  No one will mind you sewing things on a $35 jacket. :)

http://www.amazon.com/MA-1-Flight-Jacket-Navy-Blue/dp/B0002XN1N8/ref=sr_1_5?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1319661474&sr=1-5

The Rothco MA-1:
(http://electraforge.com/brooke/flightsims/flight_jackets/MA-1/rothco1.png)


Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: swareiam on October 26, 2011, 07:41:46 PM
Hey Brooke,

Do you have a link somewhere for ordering previous campaign patches?

 :salute
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Brooke on October 26, 2011, 08:32:36 PM
I do, but I'm way, way behind on everything, so I'll send out e-mails to everyone once I'm caught up on how to get things.
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Krusty on October 31, 2011, 01:46:04 PM
The link is in my signature.  :aok

I had a decent quality denim I got with a bunch or ragged/shredded bass pro shop and harley davidson patches. Pulled those off and put on some scenario patches. Looks halfway decent! Doesn't hurt that it's a similar cut/fit to A-2 type jacket, I guess.

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz63/krustacious/jacketpatches2.jpg)

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz63/krustacious/jacketpatches1.jpg)
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Shuffler on October 31, 2011, 02:01:12 PM
The Germanz are not only bad pilots, they're hypocrites, too!  :ahand

We'll see about that :)

The term spitfire was allotted to the bird that burned well.
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Shuffler on October 31, 2011, 02:03:10 PM
Hah!  I've got first dibs on any 190 fighter bombers trying to get to the English coast! :)

Ve vill be lookink for speets. :)
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Brooke on October 31, 2011, 04:47:50 PM
Pics of Krusty's jacket

Nice!  :aok
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: Krusty on October 31, 2011, 11:42:02 PM
I still have a couple more patches to put on.... I just get lazy about it  :bolt:

Although to date I think I've gotten 4 different positive comments from strangers about it. Sometimes I forget I'm wearing it until somebody mentions it  ;)


P.S. That centerpiece in the back is a 71 Squadron crest. I was able to find a decent one online. Apparently there's a modern squadron with 71 Sqn herritage, that every so often has the pilots wear the old patch (to teach the pilots to respect their predecessors that have served before them, or something), and I was able to buy one from a guy that makes them for the pilots via e-mail correspondence.
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: thorsim on November 19, 2011, 01:50:31 PM
am in arena now frame 1 -20 looking for a luftwaffe slot pref in order is jg 1,2,26,54,skg10,27
Title: Re: Still got a few spots left....
Post by: thorsim on November 19, 2011, 01:52:40 PM
thanks and

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