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22 March 2005
"Have war bird, will travel."
Field of Departure: A21
Targets: A5, A85, A73
(defense)
Pilots in Attendance:
Fuzeman (grounded due to illness)
Lees2
Luft
Plus
RBS
RTS
Skeksis
Greetings!
This week's squad night was a wild
ride and a lot of fun. How wild
was it? Let's just say I forgot
to take some notes that I should
have.
;-)
The evening started out early,
although I do not recall exactly
when as I spent some time in the
TA practicing (and filming) a few
maneuvers. When I had enough of
that I moved to the MA where I
found Fuze and RTS on line. Fuze
had stopped in to see what was
going on and let anyone who was
already there know he would not be
flying tonight due to the 'flu.
Before logging off he told us to
have fun and I think we succeeded
very well.
Shortly after Fuze logged off both
Luft and Plus arrived and since
RTS was already working A5 and was
heading back, we decided to go
along to serve, protect, and add
to the carnage. Luft brought
along a formation of B24's while
Plus had a P38J heavy and I had a
51D heavy. I do not know what RTS
was flying but I would not be
surprised if it was another
formation of Liberators. RTS had
chosen A21 as it started us out at
10,000 feet so the bombers did not
have to spend time grabbing alt.
RTS had a head start on us and the
rest of us flew out somewhat as a
group but we became separated on
the way and when we arrived the
scene was complete chaos. A5 had
already been hit, probably by RTS,
and there were quite a few
defenders over the field. I
really do not know what was going
on with everyone else but I did
get a few damage reports, hear a
couple of bail out, a couple of
kills confirmed as etc. For my
part I wasted no time in dropping
my bombs and then spent most of my
time diving in, missing my target,
and climbing back up. At one
point even though I missed my
target, my attack was good enough
to cause my opponent to sharply
break away from the other Knight
he was saddling up. the fun and
games came to an end though as I
was started to head back North to
join back up with Plus when I came
across another Knight in trouble
and dropped in to assist. I
didn't get any hits then and wound
up going down but I do have the
consolation of knowing it took
three of them to box me in long
enough to finish the job.
After this we made another run on
A5 but it was just getting too hot
so we changed plans and decided to
take the fight to A85. We decided
to continue to use A21 as a base
of operations as there was little
enemy presence in that sector and
we left in heavy FOC. Since RTS
was driving a Pony we went up to
18k and as we were en route Lees
and RBS arrived and joined in.
Again I don't know how well the
others did as I compressed on my
dive and slammed into one of the
bomber hangers (I should have
gotten some credit for that
;-)
) after putting my bombs
and rockets on target. As I was
coming back Lees pointed out that
A80 was getting hammered so the
plan was changed. Those who still
had ordinance were to complete
their drop and then head to 80 to
aid in the defense, everyone else
was to head off to 80 but it was
taken before we could do much and
I entered into a string of
frustrating defeats which almost
caused me to call it a night but I
decided to keep flying and wound
up ending on a high note.
After the fall of 80 we started
flying out of other fields and
ended up defending 76. During
this defense Lees went over to 80
and put their barracks out of
action to make it harder for the
enemy to get grunts to 76. While
Lees was taking the fight to them
RTS, RBS, and myself were aiding
the defense at 76. Eventually I
broke the streak of shoot-downs
and managed to turn the tables on
one pilot who had shot me down
twice. It felt good although the
other guy was pretty sharp in his
FW190D and I had to work on it in
my P38L. This was going to be my
last flight as I had been online
almost three hours and as I was
coming in to land I spotted a very
low 110 and bolted and entered
pursuit. The 110 pilot vulched
one Knight and did some damage
before he slammed into a stand of
trees giving me a prox kill. I
landed my two kills, realized that
despite parts of it when it felt
like I was accomplishing nothing
that I had a great time and logged
off leaving RBS defending 76 in a
GV.
Here are the tallies for the
evening that I am aware of:
Lees - C2, all barracks at A80,
and 3 Lancasters
Luft - 3 HF, 1 BH
RTS - 1 Hurricane, 1 unknown kill,
2 BHs, 2 FHs, 109, B24 (from an
Ostie)
Skeksis - 1 BH, 1 FH, 1 field gun,
190D, 110
This was a great evening and it
felt great to get involved in so
many different things. Salute and
congratulations to everyone who
was flying, you all did a great
job and dealt out a lot of hurt
and I am already looking forward
to next week!
:-)
Skeksis
As usual I will post
screenshots from this week on my
site, hopefully within an hour.
:-)
http://www.skeksis.org/AcesHigh/code_main_frame_set.html
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screenshots are from Skeksis's
Website. Please click the above
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