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gaw

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always wondered how many pilots I managed to kill during the many campaigns for both sides.....not to mention QC learning curves on the E3 and the Spad....taken to not naming my pilots.....just entering the next number in the enlistment name box.......#32 just bought it......nosed up steeply juuuust too long getting a few more into the stricken Albie stalled overhead.......no speed left to veer away and the wreckage dropped in my face........better luck #33
 
In Phase 1 Hundreds, it becomes allot easier when your pilot can never die as far as Workshop is concerned, and you put your own limit on how long he can remain in hospital before he retires

My Limit is 22 Days

Example falling from 13000 in a ball of flame is 27 Days (he retires )

A rather bad crash landing is 21 Days in the Hospital. So he continues flying - after his 21 days:sheep::sheep::sheep::sheep:
 
Most of the pilots I kill are me (daydreaming, sightseeing, lousy landings, target fixation, twice over the enemy airfield). I've taken to naming my new enlistments creatively- Ken. N. Fodder, Ted Meat, I.M. Goner, Next Juan I, II etc.. However, I've pretty much exhausted my creativity (or have run through the English language)... Maybe binary code is next?
 
duck said:
Most of the pilots I kill are me (daydreaming, sightseeing, lousy landings, target fixation, twice over the enemy airfield). I've taken to naming my new enlistments creatively- Ken. N. Fodder, Ted Meat, I.M. Goner, Next Juan I, II etc.. However, I've pretty much exhausted my creativity (or have run through the English language)... Maybe binary code is next?
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Try this site for your next dead man name. Good for biker names too.:whistle:

http://www.necroticobsession.com/gothname.html

Croz
 
Gee, I dunno Crozbone. Lieutenant Scarred Psyche just doesn't do it for me. But I wonder how they knew...
 
duck said:
Most of the pilots I kill are me (daydreaming, sightseeing, lousy landings, target fixation, twice over the enemy airfield). I've taken to naming my new enlistments creatively- Ken. N. Fodder, Ted Meat, I.M. Goner, Next Juan I, II etc.. However, I've pretty much exhausted my creativity (or have run through the English language)... Maybe binary code is next?
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I've been flying as Otto Noebetter for some time now. He's lasted longer than the others put together. (I'm sure that will garrantee his demise during the next mission!)
 
Baywing- Now that's more my style. My next unwitting recruit will be Otto Gifup. I think you've enabled a whole squadron of victims.
My way of justifying my short lifetimes is: where would the great aces be without us victims? We all have a role to play in the great food chain. Mine just happens to be similar to the relationship rabbits have with foxes or krill have with whales. We're all part of the great plan...
 
My pilots are all members of the huge Bullethead, Flingtete, and Geschosskopf families. Each one's first name starts with the next letter in the alphabet for that language. I'm up to N for the Brits, C for the French, F for the Germans, but haven't tried any US pilots yet.
 
Getting into Mr. Peaboy's Wayback Machine

Captain Bullwikle Moose
Sargent Rocky Squirrel
Lieutenant Dudley Doright
Major Snidely Whiplash

Deputy Dog
Huckleberry Hound
Yogi Bear
Fred Flintstone
Barney Rubble
Crusader Rabbit

Even Snaggle Puss was a pilot

Let's not forget . . Bert & Harry . . the PIELS Brothers

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were in the same squadron as Groucho Marx and his brothers

Rock Hudson was in the RAF

While Cary Grant and Tony Curtiss were in the RNAS

Esc 82 featured Pepe Lapeuw
 
Count de Coyne
Hans Shweinhund
Dieter Dumbkopf
Or something interesting like Mohammad Bernstein.
 
No, No, No it was Count de Money . . . . or so said Mel Brooks :ernae:
 
Cpt. Bud Wiser
Lt. Mick Elobe
Cpl. Jack Daniels
Sgt. Jim Beam

I could go on, but I think you all get the point... ;)

OvS
 
I try to give my pilots the same name in each nationality (lack of imagination on my part) Of my pilots, I've lost:

German: Otto Treiharder - approximately 30 times in D.Va, Dr.1 and D.VII. He usually lasted two or three missions until a mid-air collision ended his career.

American: Wally Paper - seven times in SPADs before I gave up on that unflyable brick of a plane. Maybe I need to go Lafayette and try to fly Neuports.

British: Jerry Mander - six times in Camels ten times in DH-2s and once in an SE5a (just don't like the asymetric guns). He's the only one left alive and he's on his seventh life in Camels and doing well (six claims and four confirmed)

French: Jaques Strappe - no missions, no deaths, so he's probably my most successful pilot.

Perhaps I need to start numbering them like GAW or George Foreman's kids (all named George [II through VI])
 
My last German pilot: Willie Kommenhomme
My Last French pilot: Gurhle Mahnn

: )
 
One of my names is Duncan Biscuit, and one for the ladies Hugh Jampton. Or if you are a lady, Edna Bucket.
 
Dear All,
What I find funny is that we are all the same regarding survival.
We all say.....lasted 'N' missions.......probably die next time and we "will" it on ourselves weighing up the odds and seeing comrads die and start thinking along the lines of..."I can't last much longer.....just too lucky, it must run out soon".
regards,
Pike.
 
:FI:Pike said:
Dear All,
What I find funny is that we are all the same regarding survival.
We all say.....lasted 'N' missions.......probably die next time and we "will" it on ourselves weighing up the odds and seeing comrads die and start thinking along the lines of..."I can't last much longer.....just too lucky, it must run out soon".
regards,
Pike.
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Part of that comes from the reality of WW1 and the realism of BHaH. Life of a pilot was mostly short. Flying time was measured in hours, if you were lucky enough to make it home, someone you knew likely didn't. I'm not so sure everyone wills it on themselves, but going into battle with an invincible attitude will likely get you killed quicker.
 
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