while there has been a lot of flying and reporting on the central side of the front, the allies are also active....
so far, two pilots have emerged:
flown by Dukley: Name: Winston Pike Rank: Captain Age: 26 Hometown: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Biography: Winston was flying a few years prior to the outbreak of war. He dreamed of flying planes for Canada Post. Once the war began he volunteer for service in the English Air Corp.
and: Name: Hugh Crummond Rank: Captain Age: 35 Hometown: Capetown Biography: Born in Southafrica but grown up and educated in oxford, Captain Crummond is a private investigator and adventurer as well as someone truely dedicated to using up the century old familiy fortune. http://www.stats.syndicatesquadron.org/pilot/59578/
flown by me... more are likely to emerge on the roster.
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#4030230 - 11/01/1409:13 AMRe: AAR: MP DiD Allied Campaign in RoF
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AAR: Crummond, Sortie #2 flying triplanes over the channel coast, Crummonds squadron is incapcitated by diarea but offcourse that doesn´t put a good old chap like our hero out of action!
Taking to the air at sunrise, after the tradtional colonial chilli dinner, Mr. Crummond and his triplane encounter naval albatri harrassing the good men of the merchant navy. Sure that can´t go unpunished and soon one finds itself in the sea. His cowardly wingman then sees Crummond, switches off his engine and jumps in the sea to hide away in a submarine, before further action could be taken!
After a short stop to do, what he has got to do, Crummond arrives back at the naval aerdrome, only to find the bewildering effects of the chilli dinner aparently still haunting the neighbourhood! But the carpet of silence is best maintained over these delicate maters.
#4030869 - 11/03/1402:37 AMRe: AAR: MP DiD Allied Campaign in RoF
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Ignoring the nasty cold, Crummond is asked to deal a striking blow to the enemies propaganda music effort by anihilating a well known piano factory. Despite getting almost lost, the journey is uneventful and with very much london weather. Thankfully, the plane apearing rearwards out of the mist turns out to be another limey and the effort are joined. Though the germans are infact not comming out to play, maybe because they forgot to put towels on their sunbathing pilot chairs in the albatri and now can´t sort out who takes which first and so on...
all in all, very uneventfull. Except for the landing, where all out of a sudden the runway is blocked by heap of suplies!
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#4033650 - 11/08/1411:16 PMRe: AAR: MP DiD Allied Campaign in RoF
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tiny bit related, albeit i did not fly a character.. was this joint flight, on which mr. Pike took part, was shot down and captured but escaped luckily:
#4059303 - 01/03/1504:51 PMRe: AAR: MP DiD Allied Campaign in RoF
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I haven´t updated the adventures in a while, but there were some flights and Mr. Crummond is still alive, despite several attempts to remedy this..
here is a mission where he flies with dukley as gunner and escorting Tailmange (both not flying in-character)
what happened was:
we wanted to fly a mission against a regular target, which turned out to be down once underway, so we opted for an airfield..
here is what Crummond had to say:
"Despite knowing better, our CO ordered a low level daylight attack with the large beasts: Those Handley Page Stagecoaches. I most definatly need to tell my fellow pilots to not ask his wife out for dinner again.
Fortunatly, I could fake mechanical damage and get my hands on a trusty DH4 which off course means that the tactical relocating to the rear maaay be bit more feasible.
Upon reaching that fronline airfield, my observer spotted some of the new monoplanes we had heard about just about to take off... Knowing that we HAD to keep them down if we wanted to further enjoy the company of the HP crew, we hesitantly dove at the Fokker D8s to keep them low and from pursuing.. D
My Gunner actually managed to hit one in the fueltank, which flew then home and we made a run for it. The monoplane hot in pursuit, flak bursting and slightly below a 1000ft. While some shrapnell got stuck in my shoe, the persuing enemy brand spanking new monoplane was aparently also unknown to the AAA crew and they took far mor offense in its presence then over my dirty boot. It was shot last seen going vertically into the trenches... to presumable complain and make the type known by example to the unlucky AAA crew.
A 3rd german, a DFW dove in at us, just as we reached our lines... but went climbing in the clouds to counterattack, but then did not find it again in time..
upon landing, my rudder (on the joystick) broke and we had a tiny bit of last minute despair.. but nonetheless made it down intact.. save for the long DH4 prop, which got stuck in a molehill. So we all got a day off, as spare props of the 4-bladed kind had not yet arrived."
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#4060106 - 01/05/1506:05 PMRe: AAR: MP DiD Allied Campaign in RoF
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