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Special Events Forums => Friday Squad Operations => Topic started by: black on November 16, 2013, 06:30:52 PM
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A few screenshots from yesterday - evil little I16 ;)
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lol....that last pic looks like the last 7 seconds of my flight last night. That may have been me :joystick:
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lol....that last pic looks like the last 7 seconds of my flight last night. That may have been me :joystick:
That was you, scared the crap out of me :)
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Crazy paint job on that little sucker.
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NICE! all those TARGETS on the runway... hard to choose
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VF-17 and a good time in frame 3. 109's in cow skins normally do well for us :aok.
Some screenies from the first fight at A23.
Me and Droptine engaging a yak7 trying a split S. The hits ended up in an engine hit, Drop followed him over to the dirt and got a fire lit.
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/BigRatphotos/mendropyak7_zps8a302e2a.jpg?t=1384711612)
This poor guy, I think was the last Yak over by the base. Brave soul died due to a pilot kill on this shot.
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/BigRatphotos/yak7boom_zps08f26f8f.jpg?t=1384711625)
VF-17 then moved toward A25 for support, found the main fight at A74 as many soviet aircraft were trying to land. Was a very choatic fight, with enemy both high and low and my plane was being an ack magnet. <S> to the I16 that got me in the verticle fight. Was not sure I judged your E well enough at the beginning of that to get over on the second immelman for the engine shot. Wasn't about to follow that I-16 down in the ack to finish though. Branch our CO got a radiator hit and did a heroic job of nursing it back to A25 for landing. Given that we were so scattered and fuel was becoming a concern I pulled everyone back toward A71 to regroup and refuel. Unfortuately as we were getting organized A23 started to flash again and we had just enough fuel to get there. We found 4 or 5 yaks attacking A23. Me and JD8300 were the first on the scene and dropped ont he yaks as they were trying to egress. I knew we had support close by so we just wanted to get them turning so that re-enforcments had time to engage them before they got to far out. One yak ended up escaping, the others did not. We lost one due to a collision on this action. <S> to Devil505 and Alpini for joining us on this frame, was good to have you guys aboard.
:salute
BigRat
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Great pics I like the winter terrain screens. Thanks for those.
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Thank you Nefari for inviting me to join your group for this event. The airlift is an interesting twist on the events. What I found was that dropping bombs in an event is cool, and a great objective, but getting there and back is a white knuckle experience no matter what the goal is.
After stitching my ribs back together from laughing at the radio banter, we came upon our target field and it was time to do what is supposed to be a relatively routine procedure. Land, rearm, launch. In frame 1, I proved that landing was the hard part after breaking a wing off trying to decelerate too quickly. This frame, I managed to get the gear down, line up for the final approach and as I'm looking at the clustered planes all rearming, was shaken back to attention by tracers blasting by me and pinging up my wings.
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Bad guy coming in, he could have had a field day hitting the cluster of bombers on the rearm pad, but he came at me and I believe Bortas near me. Unfortunately, he was taken out as I landed, having had his wing blown off causing his explosion.
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Rearming went off without a hitch, and just as I taxied back to the runway, calls were coming in about a mass of bad guys inbound. We were all scattering hard trying to get out of there, while our cap was tearing past us heading to the enemy.
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Bugging out low and as fast as I could go, check 6 calls drew my attention to an incoming bad guy.
(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a483/Rockcobc/FSO/3leavinghot_zps92eee8e8.png)
I end up shot to pieces, fuel leaking fast, left elevator destroyed, tail wheel gone, various other non essential parts littering the ground, but the IL2 paid for it, he was tore up between my BBs and the brilliant work of the escorts.
(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a483/Rockcobc/FSO/5gothim_zpsbfe6c92f.png)
This is a yellow rubber duck. There was a very long ride home, and you can only take so many pictures of squirrels in trees.
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As we were all fleeing for our lives, I was joined by Bino who took up a gunner position. As I approached the landing field, I realized that for safeties sake, I should tell Bino to get out of the lower guns, as I had low fuel, spongy controls and no tail, I thought it might be a good idea to be up top where it was safe as there was a good chance that we were going to have a less than stellar landing.
(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a483/Rockcobc/FSO/6notailwheel_zps5d480b84.png)
Had I known at the time, I would have simply had him jump out and walk home. Oddly enough, when you land hard, with less than what could be called "control" and that tail hits with no wheel...
(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a483/Rockcobc/FSO/7smacked_zps703df44c.png)
It tends to make a loud noise. Remember when I said Bino should jump to an upper gun?
(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a483/Rockcobc/FSO/8upsidedown_zps45ee850d.png)
That might have been a poor decision on my part. Over we went.
Long flight, hard fight in and out of the target field, all to come to a squishy end. Ahh well, so goes the war :salute
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Agreed, ROC, and I would also thank Nef for inviting me.
Like you, my sides were hurting from the laughter. It is amazing what grown men find to talk about when there is lots of time on their hands,
and it is also very amazing that it is as funny as it is.
Bombers, or in this case, transports, are always cool to me because there is so much fun and frivolity on the way in, then the terror factor kicks
in near target, then the dread of trying to get home and, if you are lucky, the thrill of landing at your home base.
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ROC, that's me providing alternative landing light in the second pic! :aok :lol
A thousand He-111s on the field and that dang Rata pics mine to light up! That's my luck. My wing fell off as I was touching down and I ended up off the runway for a ditch :bhead. Had a blast gunning Joker's bird on the way home. Glad we entertained you. Come back anytime. :salute