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Corporal Siefer Journal Entry #9 We want our flyboys out on an emergency scramble today. Seems the krauts have managed to scrape together every last clunker in their air force to mount one last offensive. They really did a number on our boys too. Only one of the p51's we sent out this morning came back in one piece. Bucket of Bolts had to make an emergency landing near an allied airfield and my god was she shot to hell. Both fuel tanks punctured, both flaps blasted clean away, and a few bullet hole in the engine block. I would have been experiencing Deja Vu if it wasn't for the fact the canopy was still intact! I'm afraid that Bucket of Bolts is gonna take quite some time to repair, if she even can be repaired. Battle damage is pretty extensive and with spare parts being hard to come by right now due to the krauts attacking our resupply convoys its gonna be a challenge to get her back in the air. Better go check on Hall as well. He seemed pretty beat up from that landing and from wrecking his bird. I'll bring him some of the whiskey dad sent me. After a day like this we all need a stiff drink...
@GunslingerXXI When I worked for delta after highschool I always took care of pilots when/where I could. In winter I carried a giant thermos of hot coffee and during the summer it was either iced tea, lemonade, or Gatorade. We are all in the same boat with our hats in the ring so to speak. Whether you're working the ramp for an airline or working on the flight line at an airbase you're part of a team effort to get the mission done.
Jesus christ that was a tough fight. If you hadn't been bounced so far from home you might have been able to make it back just in time. The fact that you were able to limp her that far with so much damage and the loss of flight critical systems is impressive in it's own right. Remember that any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Heres hoping Mr. Hall can keep flying well into the new year and beyond.
Yeah it was pretty tense fight and from the looks of it I didn't even get into the think of it. There were around 30 aircraft engaging each other around my area of operations. It was a massive furr ball everywhere! I was really hoping I would be able to bring Bucket of Bolts back home that engine likes to quit on me when I can just see the aircraft lol. Hopefully Justin can make it to the end. So far I am doing rather well in terms of surviving. Surprisingly..
Surviving at all in that situation will probably expand on Justin Hall's mythos of military mastery. Sure, there're aces, but how many aces survived retreating across the line with several enemies on their six and actively firing, while leaking fuel, limping along on damaged engines, and lacking critical control surfaces, and landing gearless in a snowy french wheat field unharmed while the majority of their squadron was killed or wounded, after getting literally the only mission kills across the entire squadron in that sortie?
Somebody made a deal with the devil for sure. The first time he got shot to hell and managed to bring her home was just as bad if not worse than this lol.
Since I started watching Hall has in the neighborhood of 23 or 24 kills. Making him a very high scoring Ace. Everyone in America would know who he is, and he'd likely be pulled out of flight ops. Gotta sell those war bonds. But this is an air combat sim.
I read somewhere, I think it was in the excellent book JG 26 - Top guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald Caldwell, that many Luftwaffe pilots suffered from really bad hangovers in the morning of jan 1. Many had celebrated what they thought to be their last new years eve a bit to heavily, thinking that it was to be their last pints of beer.
Damn that was quite the episode that was some ace piloting and even greater luck, this one had me at the edge of my seat. Good thing Justin Hall survived and we get yet another episode
I am not sure if it should be said that Hall is lucky, or that anyone that flies with him is unlucky. Either way, I am enjoying the series. Keep it up!
These videos actually made me try out il2 finally, it does feel refreshing to jump into a warbird for a change from the regular modern jets I play with in DCS. I was wondering, how do you get to start from the runway in the carreer mode? I always start from air.
In the real Battle of Bodenplatte . A P51 got behind a Fokker Wolf 190 and opened fire . The two wings of the 190 folded up like a plane on a aircraft carrier deck . Trapping the pilot in his seat . Unable to get out, he went down with his plane .
Our highest scoring P-51 Ace was killed by our own AAA. George Preddy was killed Dec 25, 1944, during the prelude to Bodenplatte starting officially on Jan1, 1945.
Was watching Chuck Yeager talk about dogfighting in WWII, he mentioned the German cannon rounds would explode on the surface of the plane and not damage the internals as much as they could have if they'd penetrated into the interior of the plane. He thought the armor piercing incendiaries did a lot more damage (even though it didn't look like it from the outside) since they penetrated deep in the plane's internals and damaged things there. Not sure if it's like that in game, though...you certainly stick with that plane a lot longer than I would have.
Worn and torn? More like battered and tattered at this rate! @The_Raptor I'm gonna be right there with you trying to get this slag heap back in the air!
I have to say, the G-suit really makes a huge difference. If you go from playing the mustang to then flying a 109 you really notice how much more you blackout.
Ah, Bodenplatte. Such a great example of doubling down on a really bad idea... On the other hand, if they'd held on to more of the Luftwaffe and been able to provide at least a little bit of air support on the western front in the months after the Ardennes offensive even more of the country would have ended up being taken by the Red Army, so it was probably a good thing in the long run.
*the sounds of profanity echo loudly into the night from the hangar* I swear to god if I open up this hatch and find ANOTHER cannon shell in here that hasn't exploded I'm gonna lose my mind. *5 seconds later* Mother****ing C***sucking son of a ***** there's another ****ing shell in here!!
Set your sight to same distance as your gun convergence and don't change it! That's how its supposed to work! Your gun convergence can't change in flight!
You should change your tactic to what erich hartmann wrote in his book. He wrote that your frontview musst be completely obstructed by the enemy bevore you fire your guns.
I wish I could like the IL2 WW2 birds but after DCS I just cant. I wish IL2 and DCS would combine forces. One has great physics the other has a great graphics engine, lol.
Radiators on the P-51 are automatic. You can switch it to manual and control it yourself however. The reason my engine was constantly overheating was because my cooling system was hit and I was leaking coolant everywhere.
