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I was having issues getting on the SOH flight server tonight, so I hopped back in the SBD and took off across Greenland to catch up with the Lexington and it's battleship escort off of Iceland. Decided to fly it in one straight hop, going high to get into the jetstream and get a good tailwind to help with the gas mileage. Turned out to be a nice flight, but I had to land in the middle of a thunderstorm.
Kind of funny when I pulled out of my dive. I cut it kind of close trying to get a good screenshot of the deck and when I pulled out of the dive things kind of went haywire. I have my wheels, flaps and dive brakes all set up with buttons on my joystick. I kind of got my fingers tangled up and had flaps, dive brakes and wheels all operating in different directions. Made me think of doing a demonstration for a prospective buyer showing that everything worked. At least I got it all straightened out before I hit that battleship.
Yep, that's a FS contrail. I was at 18,000 and the airtemp was around -25C.
Yikes! I hope you and your gunner had your sheep's wool flight suits on.
Love that photo of the SBD in the clouds with the sun behind it.
I closed the canopy for once![]()
Thank you. I was preparing to report you to the ASPCTG.
- H52
Not sure yet if I'll actually land on Scottish soil. I'm trying to do this with minimal landings that are not on carriers and I've got a few of them scattered around the UK. I will say that Scapa Flow is an easy flight from here.