7/28/2006 Rice Paper versus 50 cals

[forHIM]

7/28/2006 22:11   forHIM   Kill Awarded   ROX   SBD-5   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:12   starbird   Kill Awarded   EZtarget   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:13   rendog   Kill Awarded   RatTaTat   TBM-3   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:13   skernsk   Kill Awarded   68Jabb   SBD-5   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:13   outlaw   Kill Awarded   Deth7   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:14   TCE2506   Kill Awarded   Digr1   SBD-5   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:14   TCE2506   Kill Awarded   Jackbull   SBD-5   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:15   Harppa   Kill Awarded   68Falcon   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:15   Sarge   Kill Awarded   1ijac   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:17   outlaw   Kill Awarded   68Dougal   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:17   rendog   Kill Awarded   68Outlaw   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:18   forHIM   Kill Awarded   Zulu   TBM-3   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:18   Simaril   Kill Awarded   Bronk   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:18   skernsk   Kill Awarded   BGgetmo   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:20   TCE2506   Kill Awarded   Easyscor   SBD-5   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:20   Nifty   Kill Awarded   Slickl   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:25   HeavyH   Kill Awarded   Wing   TBM-3   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:29   d0gma   Man. Kill Awarded   Nemrod   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:31   TCE2506   Man. Kill Awarded   Dace   P-40B   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:32   TCE2506   Kill Awarded   AKQwik   F4U-1   332nd Flying Mongrels

7/28/2006 22:14   skernsk   Assist Awarded   Jackbull   TCE2506   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:15   Harppa   Assist Awarded   1ijac   Sarge   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:15   rowdy1   Assist Awarded   1ijac   Sarge   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:17   rendog   Assist Awarded   68Dougal   outlaw   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:17   skernsk   Assist Awarded   68Outlaw   rendog   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:17   Sarge   Assist Awarded   68Outlaw   rendog   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:17   TANK1   Assist Awarded   68Outlaw   rendog   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:18   HeavyH   Assist Awarded   Zulu   forHIM   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:18   d0gma   Assist Awarded   Bronk   Simaril   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:18   Harppa   Assist Awarded   Bronk   Simaril   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:18   middog   Assist Awarded   Bronk   Simaril   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:23   forHIM   Assist Awarded   Gooss   POLLOCK1   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:29   HeavyH   Assist Awarded   SoloMAW   RedDog   332nd Flying Mongrels

7/28/2006 21:57   middog   End Flight   Ditched      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:14   starbird   End Flight   Captured      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:17   Dicho37   End Flight   Killed      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:19   rendog   End Flight   Captured      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:21   d0gma   End Flight   Captured      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:26   forHIM   End Flight   Killed   RatTaTat   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:27   TeeeRex   End Flight   Killed   Krypto   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:27   Makarov9   End Flight   Captured      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:29   rowdy1   End Flight   Crashed      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:30   daddog   End Flight   Killed      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:30   Blutik   End Flight   Killed      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:30   outlaw   End Flight   Captured      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:30   Harppa   End Flight   Captured   DanoDano   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:31   skernsk   End Flight   Killed   38MAW   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:31   HeavyH   End Flight   Ditched      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:31   Simaril   End Flight   Killed   Dace   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:31   Dicho37   End Flight   Landed   9   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:31   middog   End Flight   Killed   Redge2   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:32   TANK1   End Flight   Killed   DanoDano   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:32   d0gma   End Flight   Landed   9   332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:33   TCE2506   End Flight   Captured      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:37   Sarge   End Flight   Ditched      332nd Flying Mongrels
7/28/2006 22:44   Nifty   End Flight   Killed   AKEpoch   332nd Flying Mongrels



This is just a partial list.  We did well.

Of particular note:
1. My kill on ROX was the very first of the frame.
2. Dicho37's death was the very first for the Axis.
3. Closely followed by RenDog's death.  -- 1 & 2 in the frame 
4. TCE earned ACE status in less than 15 minutes.   


What a blast -- short an sweet for me -- killed ROX's sbd and collided with his parts.  No damage, but forgot to look out for the p40 that came through.  He nailed me with a couple of shots -- one of which hit my pilot.  I immediately egressed towards home.  In the process I managed to kill one TBM that heavyH was wrangling with and then tracked a low bunch of TBMs all the way back to base.  Peppering one or two with my MGs.  When the calvary came over (the CAP of A9) they missed the low bunch and went for the medium alt bunch.  A couple of guys came down to dispatch the low TBMs.  As I was lining up for final, my pilot died.  I was with in 30 seconds of landing. 

From the looks of the partial logs, the Allied paid a price for their bombing, but A9 took a beating.

PS:  I won't post what we took off in as I think RenDog deserves a break from KP duty -- he needs to wash and wax my Yak 

[skernsk]

I knew I had two kills outright.  I scored several hits on an SBD at 0 distance and was surprised it didn't explode.  My second kill was the result of a good check 6 by a squadie, I pulled up and inverted and watched him fly below me in a straight line.  I rolled level, nosed down and nailed him.  Sorry if someone was lined up on him.

After the second kill, I had no cannon left and outlaw said to head back.  I turned to A9.  When I arrived there was a great low furball going on.  Too bad I had to use the spit balls.  I was peppering a TBM with BB's when I heard one good hit on my plane.  The canopy turned red briefly .. then into the tower.

A short frame, but one heck of a good one for me.

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[starbird]

I went after a p40 that was pulling up in front of me, but got too close and he took off a wing.  

[MP Sarge]

22:37:19 Skillfully ditched.

yea i was real skillful. went to 37 to refuel due to fuel leak in left wing and rearm. taxied all over that field and could not find refuel station. as i revved up engine to Head to what i thought was it, turned to hard to the left plane tipped over onto left wing which dipped nose into ground and bent prop. so if that was skill then i am a ace..lol

Had a good flight prior to that, the dumb butt refueling attempt was weird. i was all over that base before nose diving into dirt and could not find that pad. bad thing was i left recorder on to save that skillful ditch..lol

[Dichodog]

WOOHOOO!!!! I lived long enough to get killed this time... skills improving exponentially

good times

going to spend the better part of my free time on the weekend working on adjusting trim and dialing my plane(s) in during ACM.  Reading the wingman tactics and I'm thinking I'll do a little practicing in C47s in case we ever need a taxi driver

Thanks again guys I'm having the time of my life

[HeavyH]

Great job everyone... even one kill in that piece of junk is a trophy.  And TCE, an F4-U?  That guy has to be saying "doh"!  You had to be down to bb's by then!  The furball at 9 was intense, although most of my time there was spent blacked out.  I don't know how I survived as long as I did.  Got some snap shots on passing planes but couldn't see much through the oil and blood on the windshield.  I was surprisingly able to ditch with one wing as I blacked out again.  I came to thinking I would be int he tower, but there I sat under the furball. 

 

[d0gma]

I ripped my wings off in a too-fast immelmann.  After 2 weeks of flying the A6M2, I think I'm qualified to say that it's a cruddy plane with very few advantages.  Even against the P-40B it's not great.  In order to have an advantage, you have to bait the enemy pilot into flying a certain way, and they don't often take the bait.

[d0gma]

WOOHOOO!!!! I lived long enough to get killed this time... skills improving exponentially

good times

going to spend the better part of my free time on the weekend working on adjusting trim and dialing my plane(s) in during ACM.  Reading the wingman tactics and I'm thinking I'll do a little practicing in C47s in case we ever need a taxi driver

Thanks again guys I'm having the time of my life

Dicho,

I'd use combat trim, especially with planes that don't have WEP (wep won't compensate for extra torque and your plane will constantly roll on WEP usually).

Also get that ACM Visual program that mididog offered, it's great for seeing ACMS.

Check out netaces.org and soda's AH Aircraft eval page, both highly useful: http://members.shaw.ca/soda_p/models.htm

[Dichodog]

Indeed Dogma... I've got about 50% of netaces printed and I read it in the morning when I'm um... in the study

[daddog]

Just got back from Sacramento.

Over all it went well from our squads perspective. Sure had more pilots then I thought we would. Had several old dogs show up we don’t see very often. Was good to see you guys. If I had not been busy with the Frame C.O. stuff I would have thought to have 2 or 3 of you hang back and fly with another squad. That is the best way to handle when we have too many pilots.

For those of you new to Squad Ops, squads have to commit to a number of pilots prior to each Squad Ops (3 weeks long). I put us down for 11-15 pilots. That gave us a max of 17 pilots we could have fly without penalty. Squads can go 2 under or 2 over their committed numbers. So we can go as low as 9 and as high as 17. What did we have? 19 pilots! LOL Oops!

Glad most of you had a good time. I was an observer with outlaw (who gets a credit for a lead) and watched him bag a couple.

WTG TCE!
Hang in there dogma.. your time will come.
Dicho.. well done. :)It just keeps getting better.
Simaril was a pleasure to have you flying with us. Hope to see you again!

Time for me to write up the Squad News.

[TCE2506]

Was a pretty good night, but I had no Idea I managed 5 kills. I knew the first TBM and the F4-U  . The F4-U was chasing someone else and I guess I caught him  . !!

Nice job guys that was one of the better showings for us as far as staying together through the mess. 

[Dichodog]

If we're over again I volunteer to ride as an observer.  I've ridden with Sim a couple of times and it's really helping my learning curve

It's ALWAYS a good time as far as I'm concerned