#4219320 - 01/20/16 12:15 PM
Re: DiD Centenary Challenge
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Robert_Wiggins
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BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
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Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
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You just can't beat those early morning rising sun shots.
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#4219892 - 01/21/16 04:28 PM
Re: DiD Centenary Challenge
[Re: Banjoman]
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MFair
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MFair, it's heating up for everybody. I think the days of the low hanging fruit are over. That is a great way to describe it Banjoman. The cadre of "A" pilots will soon give way me thinks.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from either end. BOC Member since....I can't remember!
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#4220034 - 01/22/16 12:04 AM
Re: DiD Centenary Challenge
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HarryH
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Sergeant Arthur Much. RFC5. Abeele. 21st January 1916 Up early, what ho! Topping breakfast then off on a reccy patrol near Ypres. Bally well lost in the dark and lost our flight but pushed on regardless. Jolly fine skies. Dashed pretty! Had to buck up my ideas and take a good look around to see what Bosch was up to. Saw thousands of troops marching through Polygon Wood. toward the lines, and and a good number of supply trucks, too. Must be readying for a big push! No sooner had I spotted our chaps arriving late to the party than I hear that infernal mosquito sound. Unmistakable, one of those infernal monoplanes of theirs. Spiller starts popping off his gun and I throw the old bird into a steep dive. Blasted Bosch puts a fair number of holes in our tail plane, but we get away with it. Landed on railway track well on our side of the lines. Waved goodbye to the Bosch blighter and flagged a lift home. Jolly adventures, what!? 
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#4220216 - 01/22/16 03:05 PM
Re: DiD Centenary Challenge
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MFair
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Harry and lederhosen, you boys be careful! Adawolf Becker was flight leader with Berthold and von Althaus on a balloon busting mission near Cappy. Beautiful day. Crossing the lines we could see from the shelling our boys were taking why they wanted this balloon down. I dove in and had the balloon smoking. My flight finished it off.  Climbing up we reformed and headed home. Von Althaus was lagging behind a bit. Before crossing back over the lines I spotted 2 FE's headed southwest below us. I dove for the attack and Berthold followed. Not making the mistake I made the other day I positioned my machine away from the observer.  With a few well placed bursts, he exploded in flames!  Berthold and I landed back at the airfield and learned von Althaus had been wounded by machine gun fire during the balloon attack. I filed my claim.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from either end. BOC Member since....I can't remember!
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#4220587 - 01/23/16 03:15 PM
Re: DiD Centenary Challenge
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Nietzsche
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Grevenbroich, Germany
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Grmpf! ...another one for the Dustbin. Especially sad, because the Just-for-Fun-Character "Friedrich Freiflug", whom I started playing by the DiD Centenary Rules also, to fill out the Bad Weather Waiting Time of my current Pilot "Berthold Bruchlandung", has already got the Blue Max  ...and Berthold's Carreer just began to get interesting: He has already had some Flying Time in the Fokker E1, but his first Kill actually was made after that by a female Spy at the Guns of his Avi C on a Secret Agent Mission (Blechley's Mission Mod is just Super-cool  ). She shot a French Ace, piloting a Nupe 10 in a fierce Dogfight. The End, some Missions later, was not very sectacular, but very permanent LOL I was in the Avi C again, roundabout 15 Meters behind another Nupe 10, whom my Gunner had already shot a lot of Holes into. We were on our Side at Treetop-Height, in a tight Curve at very low Speed, climbing, the Wind was very bumpy... Well, we were too low, too slow, the Curve was too tight and the Wind was too bumpy. It is hard to make an Avi stall, but it is possible, apparently ;-) 
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#4220626 - 01/23/16 05:31 PM
Re: DiD Centenary Challenge
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Banjoman
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Journal Entry: January 23, 1916 St. Pol-sur-Mer Today was an interesting day, we had our first official Balloon busting sortie. I've often wondered why we haven't been assigned more of these since the gasbags play such an integral part in the ground operations of the enemy. No matter, Roderic and I have done this before so we were accustomed to what was involved. After a quick spot of hot tea and toast, we made our way out to our buses. What greeted us there was quite a shock, the riggers were affixing these newfangled rocket contraptions to our outer struts. Needless to say, this vexed us greatly and we voiced our concerns to the Old man. He told us this was the new French weapon for destroying balloons developed by a French officer by the name of Le Prieur. We expressed our doubts about the efficacy of such a weapon; He blustered on about our need to be accepting of change and what not. Nothing to be done about it really, so off we flew. We arrived at our the targeted gasbag without incident and began our attack. As we both surmised, the rockets did nothing but make a lot of smoke and noise. We both managed to destroy the balloon but only after filling it with many of our bullets. Instead of these ridiculous rockets, we need some kind of incendiary bullet that would burn after being fired. 
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Hey hey
by Stormtrooper. 12/02/23 12:54 AM
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