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#2256609 - 07/11/07 10:43 PM Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots?  
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Towards the end of a long campaign in the Kola, I finally found my airframes and pilots in short supply; a total of 14 airframes destroyed, 6 damaged, 17 pilots MIA, and the other 3 KIA. So, I ended up being reinforced on the pilot issue. I got a total of 20 pilots reinforced into the squadron; 19 of which were generic greenies, but there was one special pilot. His name was Slider. Instead of the normal anonymous pilot image, Slider has his own custom picture; that of a cat, apparently unconscious, with a cigarette in his mouth, empty beer bottle in one arm, and a pack of cigarettes lying next to him.

Sadistic anti-feline easter egg by the Jane's dev crew? Doubt it. Sadistic anti-feline easter egg by the TSH dev crew? Most likely. I only found this after I downloaded and installed TSH3.

Any other odd pilots I haven't found yet? Drunk skunks? High flies?

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#2256689 - 07/12/07 12:40 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: Phawksy]  
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Way over in Perth, Western Aus...
Wonder if someone will own up.............


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#2256863 - 07/12/07 04:34 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: mdwa]  
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The "Slider" pilot comes from TSHv1, actually, not v3. He either comes in as part of the Objects Packages or the Test Missions and Loadouts. Can't remember.

#2256989 - 07/12/07 09:36 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: Joe]  
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oh there's another one~ His name is Katsuji "Blueknight" Matsumoto his pic is a pilot with an F-14 in the Background.

I believe he's a fellow Jane's F/A-18 enthusiast from Japan who has an F-14 Pit in his home and uses the F-14 mod in TsHV3.

He also has a site with TsH mods and pics of his home pit. though i forgot the address..

speaking of which the Matsumoto's pilot entry had his "Mig-28" Kills recorded.
i thought TsH aircraft kills can't be recorded in the Pilot log.

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#2257010 - 07/12/07 11:04 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: yue120]  
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Some kills get recorded.


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#2257195 - 07/12/07 04:06 PM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: M@verick]  
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Sadly, Slider was tragically killed yesterday when an AAA site locked onto his aircraft while he was egressing from enemy territory. We took off from Yavr airbase at 0700 sharp and attempted to incur into Russian airspace around their considerable nuclear stockpile. Flying at 300 feet over the rolling hills, we evaded enemy early warning systems and SAM designators. 10 miles from the nuclear stockpile, I ordered the flight of myself and 3 others to begin the bombing run for their designated targets. We raised to 2000 feet in unison, locked up our individual targets, and configured our bombs at the last moment. And that's when all hell broke loose.

Mercury 6 2 was the first to go down. SAMs all around the area locked onto us, and as the missiles started to launch, I ordered everyone to hit the deck and get that music up loud. We dove back down to 500 feet, jammers hot, aluminum clouds periodically ejecting from the rear of our aircraft. 2 was hit from a SAM-10 at his 8 o'clock. His left engine burst into flames and his altitude dropped quickly, and he was plastered into the dirt before he could eject. 3 was the next to get wiped out, but not before he dropped both his PGBs directly on two targets. He was hit twice by SAMs and managed to punch out before he crashed his Hornet into another bunker, effectively taking out a third target.

It was down to myself, Mercury 6 1, and Slider, Mercury 6 2, to complete the mission. We had no idea of the fates of our teammates; 2 was most likely dead, since we did not see him eject, and 3 was not responding after a minute from his crash. I dropped my bombs on the final target, made sure it was in flames, then ordered 3 to RTB. We lit the fires and burned off the hair from some Russian prairie dogs, being so low to the ground, and that's when the Sukhoi fighters dropped in on us. Two SU-37s on our six, no reinforcements, and we're low on fuel. Our afterburners made the IR missiles happy, so I popped a flare and disengaged the ABs and the Sidewinders bit. I did this once more, and it worked. Then the Russians got smart; they switched to radar guided missiles. Thanks to this development, I lost my entire left engine and caught it on fire. I checked my last surviving wingman, and his situation wasn't much better.

Slider was trailing smoke from his right engine, and falling behind quickly. More Sukhois were inbound, so we were more or less SOL. I hooked left, got in behind the SU-37, and took him out with my gun. His wingman disengaged from Slider and got in behind me, then switched to guns and ripped through my right engine. I get a bleed air warning, ignore it, and spiral around until I finally squeeze off a Sidewinder and take out the Ruskie.

I head back towards Yavr, and just as Slider comes into view, I see his fighter burst into flames and almost simultaneously a bonfire showed up on the ground. I try to limp back to base on my last failing engine, engaging the afterburners despite the knowledge that doing so would likely set my fighter aflame and bring about my untimely demise. I declared an emergency, entered final, and my engine let go no more than 10 feet above the runway. The sudden jarring was enough to slam the right wheel into the ground and crash the plane. I ejected the moment I saw the FIRE warning light up, and saw my beloved airframe burst into flames.

Of course, I could've been a sissy and hit the Escape button right after the mission was over, but I'm too cool for that. \:D

#2257639 - 07/13/07 01:57 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: Phawksy]  
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Yay~ that's the spirit see everything until the end

sometimes i even wait until my whole flight lands safely~ ~~ =D

btw Su-37? or SU-27?


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#2258684 - 07/14/07 11:58 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: yue120]  
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Who the hell wanted to hear this opp-s???

#2259754 - 07/16/07 01:45 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: Lobo_CAG50]  
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37s, if I remember correctly. I'm using WarfareFix, and that changes a lot of the aircraft names. They might have been Sukhoi model 27s, but when you're getting your butt [literally] blown off you don't really have the leisure to see who exactly is doing it, now do you? \:D

Either way, the SU series of fighters look extremely alike when you get to the newer models, at least in the superficial terms. The guts are totally different, but the airframe is [generally] the same to the untrained eye.

Wiki articles on those two fighters:

SU-37
SU-27

#2259799 - 07/16/07 03:39 AM Re: Anyone else find these "strange" reinforcement pilots? [Re: Phawksy]  
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Slider and Blue Knight were the orginal TSH members at the beginning.


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