Hey guys, so I started a new character/campaign flying as Sub-Lieutenant Ritchie Teacrate with C Squadron 1 Wing RNAS. Date: 11 June 1916 St-Pol-sur-Mer in Flanders. Aircraft: Sopwith Strutter 1A2. My original thought was to take pics of the Strutter for the OFF 2-seater thread I had started at SimHQ. As I led the flight from our aerodrome we soon encountered a flight of 6 FE2b's. It got me to wondering how many craft and what types would we come across in the course of our mission to patrol the front. So I decided to keep count and catch them in pictures. Perhaps like many of you I have many times been very impressed by the amount of air activity and the variety of airplanes that appear and always in the correct historical timeframe. This was on a whim and totally random. My Workshop "Regional Air Activity" was set to medium. So here goes, the pics may not correctly reflect the number of craft.
Our flight of 5 Sop. Strut. 1A2
6 FE2b
3 Bristol Scouts
4 Fokker EIII
5 Sopwith Strutter 1A2
2 Nieuport 11
3 B.E.2c
3 Fokker EIII including ace Leopold Rudolph Reiman of Jasta 1.
That gives us 28 planes comprised of 6 types. The flight time was some 2 hours. My encounter with Herr Reiman resulted in the loss of his aircraft and his interment. I also include assorted pics from the flight from the observer position and safe arrival to our home field. Thanks for checking it out.
Of course a claim was filed for that EIII Ace!
