More incredible sorties

[Moose11]

Man, the last couple of nights have been great. Maybe it's just that time of the month...  


For the few sorties I had with the Assassins, we took two fields with two missions and then of course intercepted the Dickweeds at 30k in their buffs.

We sortied to 50 as the knits were busy working on 9 and 10. Some guy on chan 1. was screaming "need help at 50, lots of enemies" as the sector bar exploded. A hair raising sortie with some great on-the-deck dogfights.


For the raid to 7, we had a flight of P38s with P51 escorts. At about 10k or so, we sighted high cons on our 12. The heavy p38's dove into the clouds as Sancho and his P47's rolled in.

It was a great dogfight in and out of the clouds, and those 47 drivers are amazing. They know how to use the ride for everything it's worth.

<S> to all pilots involved!

[Wardog]

Bish & Knights were also going at it between a24 & a48.

These where some of the best low level dog fights ive been in for a very long time. Not any thought at all of JABOing hangers or fuel at either base, just pure fighting.

I lost more Typhoons last night in 2 hours than i have in the last month. Upped a25 with 50% fuel and was in a fight within 2 minutes. The sky NE of a24 was full of 190s,109, Spits and Typhoon.

I wish we had more evenings like this, nothing makes you work on your SA like a sky full of fighters.

<S> Knights for a great night of fights.

Dog out.....

[hblair]

Fun stuff moose.

Looking forward to what the new terrain/planes/cloud layers will add to The Assassins squad night.  

That said, it's gonna be hard to beat the 190A8 for field attack. The Assassins, with 4-5 squaddies can kill a small or medium field in what? 1 minute? after the first plane calls in.  

190A8 is a very under-rated ack killing machine (with 30 mil's of course)

[Sancho]

Count yourself as lucky that the jugs don't have 150 gallon drop tanks like they should.  We were escorting the Dickweeds.  Too bad we had to stop for gas (sucky planning on my part   )... unfortunately right as your attack plowed in.  It would have been much different if you guys had met 10 jugs at 30k over your HQ.    

Was a good fight though.  

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>Sancho
http://www.jump.net/~cs3" TARGET=_blank>63rd FS, 56th FG
"Zemke's Wolfpack"
   
Hell hath no fury like 8 50 cals and 18 fire breathing cylinders.

[This message has been edited by Sancho (edited 02-28-2001).]

[Thunder]

I have to give a BIG <S> to the Assassins and others that came up against the Dickweed Raid to Rook HQ last night. There were only 5 of us in P-51s with the Buffs in close high altitude support. We were doing fine sending down attackers for a while but we literally ran out of ammo because of the onslaught. I personally engaged 5 or 6 different aircraft with no rounds. I got on there six at 300 yds on there six in hopes that they would break off. Finally they caught on and and litterally tore up the bombers. The battles were very realistic at high altitude. I watched the buffer as Sancho and his P-47s fought hard, cutting there way accross the entire map. It was a lot of fun and the formation was only a minute away from success. Salute to the ROOK defenders, its never fun to loose but it was a fight I won't soon forget. BTW who was the LA5 I tried to chase away from Comet10. Comet10 was smoking and missing a Vertical stabalizer and I was out of ammo. The LA5 finally killed Comet10 and coasted back home after taking hits from Comet. I was out of ammo and then ran out of fuel and ditched in the water. Just wondered   <S>

Thunder  

[Moose11]

Dunno who the LA5 was but it was a great sortie.

During the A7 raid, we realized that there was a large scale force inbound. We all landed and, almost like in WWII - the air raid siren went off and we scrambled in our 109s.

Was definitely exciting and was one of the more historic intercepts.