Oz And Beyond!

Better late than never. Lampedusa is very flat. . .yep, sure is. Great flight though and we've definitely seen our share of water. Taco had a smoking problem with the Beaufighter, probably an oddity of FSX effects files as he wasn't aware of it when I mentioned it. It was easy to spot him during the flight though, lol.
 
:wavey:Hi there!

Well, it seems the USAF wanted my He-177 for some sort of test, shucks, they didn't tell me anything, but they did say they were going to confiscate the bugger so accept the idea! So, if they put it that way we just smiled! (#%^%$#@) hehe. Shucks, we have a new task now finding a new ride.
 
:jump:Well, here we are flying across North Africa, just bouncing along. It seen we can find some of the darnest weather on most of our junkets. If you all want some rain, thunderstorms etc. just invite Flight 19 to fly around your country, we promise wild weather. Well, maybe not.
 
When the Germans overran the Netherlands in 1940, they captured a number of the innovative Fokker G.1s. They used the aircraft as trainers. In 1941, one test pilot, with a Fokker engineer, escaped over the Channel to Britain. History records the aircraft as having been stored at the Miles aircraft factory during the duration. Little known is its history flying to Tunisia and joining up with a brave band of aerial brigands…


Thanks to Michel Migaud and Huub Vink for their rendering of this interesting aircraft.
 
Well after a few server snafus we managed to get up a flight to DAOI. We had a pretty nice time, but it could have been better with the rest of the crowd there.
 
We headed on west to Melilla Spain on the coast of Morocco. Nice flight and I've decided that there's not much point in flying a Spitfire if all you're going to do is straight and level...
 
Nice flight from Melilla to Gibraltar. We lost Moses enroute to some kind of trouble, hope he found somewhere to land ok.

I spotted this carrier group near Gibraltar, so I did a quick trade for something with a tailhook....
 
Took off in the Seafire and headed back out into the straits. Got into the pattern and set 'er down on deck easy as pie. Time for a visit in the Chief's Mess....
 
Had a really good flight from Gibraltar to Alicante. Darn that Mosquito, Corsair and P-38 are fast....
 
We lost Willy to thunderstorms ... in Tennessee! Moving on, we left Alicante on the Mediterranean coast and pushed up onto the Spanish plain to Madrid. (No "rain in Spain..." today.)

We landed at LECU Cuatro Vientos which was one of the earliest operational airfields in Spain when it was built in 1911. (The first aircraft were two French Henri Farman biplanes, with a 70 HP Gnome engine, and a Maurice Farman, also a biplane, with an 80 HP Renault engine.) On the field was built the first Spanish control tower (1914) and an Aerodynamics Laboratory wind tunnel (1926). Cuatro Vientos served as one of Madrid's main airports and as an airbase for Republican operations during the Civil War. The modern airport hosts mainly GA aircraft. On the north side is a substantial air museum.

It was impressive to see Taco and falcon in those big naval aircraft, the Firebrand and Hog.
 
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