Captain Sidney Williams.

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Siggi

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Reporting for duty.:ernae:

Didn't seem to be much future in the cavalry so I volunteered for this RFC caper and have finished flying training and been posted to a shop somewhere in Belgium. No mud and dry boots, spiffing!
 
Somewhat disillusioned. My first mission, to go shoot down a hun balloon. The major put me in charge of the flight, due to my rank, but said I was to take my cues from my wingman, due to his experience.

We had a fair distance to go, around eighty miles each way. We crossed the lines, uneventfully apart from some 'archie'. I do believe we had the balloons in sight a few miles ahead when I suddenly became aware of tracer flying past from behind. Damned hun was taking potshots from his plane at one of our gang!
We all started turning and after a few twists I found myself behind a hun kite and started to shoot him up. I was getting some good hits on him too but then I started receiving fire from behind and had to get a wiggle on. Then I noticed the air was full of single-wing hun kites, Fokker E1s I believe they were. We were completely out-numbered by them and the biplanes.

After a few more twists and turns I managed to get behind one of the E1s and was giving him a jolly good thrashing. I expected him to go down at any moment, but somehow he kept going. I could see the pilot sitting up in his cockpit, bold as brass. He certainly knew how to fly the thing. Then I was hit from behind by one of his pals, quite set my ears ringing, and dived away for the ground. But he wouldn't let up and before I knew it I was scraping the trees and trying to run for home. I'm not sure what happened next but suddenly the old kite gave up on me and fell apart, depositing me in the trees and giving me a frightful time.

When I came to there were hun soldiers all around me and I was carted off to a farmhouse where they had a medical orderly check me over and then locked me in a make-shift cell. Nothing much more than an old tool-shed I think. Anyway, after twenty or so days in there, on a promise of a move to Germany at any time, I managed to dig my way under the wall and have it off back over the lines to friendly trenches.

And here I am, back with the chaps in one piece and none the worse for wear. I do so hope the next jaunt gives better results. It was never like this with the horses.
 
2nd mission and I'm exhausted. How do these chaps do it, day in and day out? Flew a recce patrol over the lines, saw no enemy a/c, freezing cold, ears humming with the drone from the engine.

:faint:

From one extreme to the other.
 
Siggi said:
After a few more twists and turns I managed to get behind one of the E1s and was giving him a jolly good thrashing. I expected him to go down at any moment, but somehow he kept going. I could see the pilot sitting up in his cockpit, bold as brass. He certainly knew how to fly the thing. Then I was hit from behind by one of his pals, quite set my ears ringing, and dived away for the ground.
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Well, there is your problem right there! Eindeckers seem to be ridiculously hard to drop. I will usually dump all my ammo into just a single Hun to bring him down in an Eindecker, while I have gotten up to 4 Halberstadts in a single mission with the same amount of rounds (although at least one of them had been hit by a fellow pilot before me.)

Why, just take a look below, if I didn't know any better, I would say that Rasputin is flying for the Kaiser. That fellow was shot, set on flames, crashed from 3000 feet, drowned in the English Channel and still wouldn't admit he was dead. I was halfway back to the aerodrome after dumping all my remaining ammo into him before he finally gave up the ghost!

Rick
 
Rick Rawlings said:
Well, there is your problem right there! Eindeckers seem to be ridiculously hard to drop. I will usually dump all my ammo into just a single Hun to bring him down in an Eindecker, while I have gotten up to 4 Halberstadts in a single mission with the same amount of rounds (although at least one of them had been hit by a fellow pilot before me.)

Why, just take a look below, if I didn't know any better, I would say that Rasputin is flying for the Kaiser. That fellow was shot, set on flames, crashed from 3000 feet, drowned in the English Channel and still wouldn't admit he was dead. I was halfway back to the aerodrome after dumping all my remaining ammo into him before he finally gave up the ghost!

Rick
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Oh. That's not right. I was aiming for the pilot too. Is that a bug?
 
Probably, I am in a Nieuport 11, so I was literally parked on his tail, I heard him scream as I hit him and he burned all the way down. I have aslo seen Eindeckers "skip" off the ground indefinitely without crashing if they hit at a slow speed.
 
My last pilot found a solution for that doggedness.



He was doing well, but then caught his wing on the ground during a regular landing and bought it.

Ah well.

I know we're not saying much yet, but we are watching this Williams' career with interest.
 
I'm sure the devs will iron out all these little quirks eventually.

The Eindeckers, the reports from the chaps here flying them certainly don't tally with what the AI are able to get out of them. Little UFOs is what they are. Next time I see them I'm running for it.
 
I wouldn't say so. I brought one down in my last flight with no more than 10 short bursts in my Scout, all from 100 yds or less and with a pretty poor accuracy too. He dropped down towards the deck then after a burst to his right wing he turned violently in to the deck.....now just waiting to see if it gets confirmed or not.
 
Great stories Siggi.

Just a reminder/heads for some may or may not apply but... make sure there are no old 3.0 cfs3.exe being used - they will cause the 50yard bug where no hits under 50 yards register.
 
Rats, I wasn't aware ones campaign pilot could be killed in a QC. I'd turned off the stats for him in QC.

I shall have to edit the first two reports appropriately when I fly the two new missions.
 
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