Thank you very much for Jacob's bit of bling. No flying today for him, RL and all that. I'll catch up in due course.
Carrick - A target rich environment eh. Exciting times in store for Dubra it would appear. #%&*$# machine gun jams, enough to drive one mental.
Fullofit - Clearly HQ don't believe us when we're telling them about all these lunatic Strutters as they keep denying the claims.
Rudi did a fine job with the SPADs though and downing one head on, very satisfying although I thought he was heading straight into Rudi then.
MFair - So the C.O. wasn't letting young Kemp dwell on his sadness. Harsh but probably best in the long run and what a start he's made! So much for a familiarisation flight, clearly mid 1918 is no place for such pleasantries. A kill on his first outing, good show.
Epower - All these ground attacks, the squadron is being asked to take some big risks. Dud ordinance doesn't help either, you get all that way putting your life at risk and drop your egg only for the #%&*$# thing to fail to go off.
Fine job on the Triplanes and quite right to give McBride a roasting. You can fly like a bird but if you can't shoot reasonably straight your a dead duck.
"A great deal of an aeroplane could be holed without affecting its ability to fly. Wings and fuselage could be—and often were—pierced in 50 places, missing the occupants by inches (blissfully unaware of how close it had come until they returned to base). Then the sailmaker would carefully cover each hole with a square inch of Irish linen frayed at the edges and with a brushful of dope make our aircraft 'serviceable' again within an hour."
