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Title: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: ImADot on November 07, 2011, 09:58:20 PM
What started as a request for a picture of the 325th flyby over the last remaining Allied CV in frame three kind of got out of hand.  :D

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWRZAyXJ-o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWRZAyXJ-o)
(View it in HD!)
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: APDrone on November 07, 2011, 10:14:26 PM
 :aok

Great job!
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Viper61 on November 07, 2011, 11:35:14 PM
 :O :O EXCELLENT DOT!!!
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: AKP on November 08, 2011, 05:37:32 AM
Very nicely done!  :aok
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Swoop73 on November 08, 2011, 08:02:51 AM
Holly moly, Dot.....Worth the wait!
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Bino on November 08, 2011, 12:33:39 PM
Sweet video, ImADot!   :salute
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: FiLtH on November 08, 2011, 04:19:57 PM
    Nice job!

   Reminded me how loose our old squad is now. Not alot of the drama like you guys portrayed in the film. Comes with age I guess :)
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Big Rat on November 08, 2011, 06:06:03 PM
Very Nice :aok  I can see myself on final in the last shot :lol

 :salute
BigRat
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Squire on November 08, 2011, 07:33:40 PM
Really great thanks for that.
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: snakeplissken on November 08, 2011, 08:03:39 PM
Great Job!!! I love the in game voice as well.  Certainly beats my squad sometimes.... We had a pilot call out... "You see that Carrier?  It's at 4 O'Clock!"  I responded  "<callsign deleted to protect drunken idiots everywhere> Where is 4 O'Clock?  I need grids! Not to mention you are in a gunners seat, sitting down facing backwards! Which 4 O'Clock?  Yours or the plane's?"  He called back:  "Oh, I don't know, we are dead now.  Anyone know where we were?"  FSO, takes you to the heights... only to recall that the fall hurts much worse up there...
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Molsman on November 08, 2011, 11:24:43 PM
Excellent Video Dot thought I might of had a cameo in it asking for the Screen shot of the fly by that night




 :salute
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Viper61 on November 09, 2011, 12:04:43 AM
All:

  The video is great all in its self.  The real beauty is the filming of a text book attack on a Task Group by Dive bombers and Torpedo Attackers.  Just as the TBM's line up you can see the ACK firing straight up as the Dive Bombers come in.  The Torpedo Attack begins about 30 seconds later.  Significant in this attack is that the SBD's and TBM's were in separate flights and converged on the target after a 100 mile flight.  One flight at 15K and one flight NOE.  And the overwhelming of the defenders as nearly 40 AC attack all at the same time.  Watching the ship ack fire in a 360 degree pattern shows the effectiveness of a coordinated attack.

  I have to give credit to the defenders the last minute turn of the Task Group counter clockwise made the TBM attack extremely difficult to get a good line up and probably saved several ships.  Many of the torpedos missed there marks including mine and I nearly hit the DD I released on.

  A good simple plan that was well executed.  Excellent team work and coordination's between the squads for 2 days prior to the attack.  Dedicated Commo men to relay info throughout.

  This mission was a real pleasure to fly and be one of the first TBM's to drop.  And one of the very few torpedo attacks I have ever survived  :lol

  This is the FSO at its best.  <S>
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: SlipKnt on November 09, 2011, 03:13:50 PM
Outstanding Vid Dot! 

Well done!

 :salute
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: UncleKurt on November 09, 2011, 08:24:47 PM
 :aok
Now That's a great vid DOT!

 :cheers:
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Vulcan on November 10, 2011, 07:34:46 PM
    Nice job!

   Reminded me how loose our old squad is now.

Haven't you got your squad-issued Depends?
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: Vulcan on November 10, 2011, 07:37:15 PM
Great Job!!! I love the in game voice as well.  Certainly beats my squad sometimes.... We had a pilot call out... "You see that Carrier?  It's at 4 O'Clock!"  I responded  "<callsign deleted to protect drunken idiots everywhere> Where is 4 O'Clock?  I need grids! Not to mention you are in a gunners seat, sitting down facing backwards! Which 4 O'Clock?  Yours or the plane's?"  He called back:  "Oh, I don't know, we are dead now.  Anyone know where we were?"  FSO, takes you to the heights... only to recall that the fall hurts much worse up there...

Not as bad as "slow turn left"..... "the other left"
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: TUK on November 10, 2011, 08:25:28 PM
Nice video. Perhaps its time to come out of retirement.
Nice vid Dot....  :salute
Title: Re: Scratch One Flattop - The Movie
Post by: puma556 on November 11, 2011, 06:05:29 AM
Very nice  :salute