Lt. James Cater

One thing i'll add is to make sure you don't go too low on the pullout the flak up North is murderous . Best thing for you to do, xclusive, is to go to the Range and practice. Nothing beats repetition to get things in a certain way without thinking about it. Come in high towards the target area then drop the nose to build up speed, then roll into a dive bomb approach.

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Nice work Nightshift! Better losing a plane than a pilot any day. Will type up results of three missions tommorrow after i get out of work. Any MIG driver who wants to catch a Thud has has his work cut out for him.

Yep, my department is getting outsourced. In the last two and a half years i survived two layoffs but enough is enough. I hate this job with a passion and am looking forward to a long paid vacation. Then i plan to come right back and get a cushier job in another department. Nothing yet has been said but big chiefs from the other company have been prowling around. I can only think of things i now have plenty of time to do. Man i can't wait!

You have little idea..From customers i hope die flaming deaths on the road to co-workers who tempted me to throw them out a 15th floor window. It's seeing rampaging kids and wanting to kick them so hard in the head, blood would splatter on the ceiling. Dealing with ancient artifacts who one wishes hard would have a heart attack. I could go on for some time...From slitting the throats of certain fellow employees to being armed to the teeth and shooting everything that moves- man, women,and child. Work in the Hotel racket long enough and you'll feel the same too.

http://combatace.com/gallery/image/16361-clipboard-cjpg/ http://combatace.com/gallery/image/16362-clipboard-c3jpg/ http://combatace.com/gallery/image/16363-clipboard-c4jpg/ OCT/1962 Have had a fast and furious introduction to combat.Flew three missions with 2LT Lyle Combies and all three have been great. Our debut was a a perfect strike on enemy fuel storage at Eisenach. We both dove in and made a textbook attack with CBUs which destroyed everything. Our third i don't have a debrief at the moment but it went well. We flew 20 miles past the target and turned onto a heading that would allow us to bomb an enemy runway and get out fast heading back towards the front. Even as were were turning at the IP, a few MIG17s were onto us. They chased us all the way to the target, down on the bomb run, and about 20 miles on the egress route. They didn't have a chance though, we were doing about mach 1.5 at 5,000ft and left them in the dust. The second mission was nice but it was all Combies. Turned out i had some mechanical problem and couldn't drop anything. When some Migs got onto us, i called Combies and jettisoned everything. We proceeded to get out of there at full burner right over the trees. So far we've been doing what we can to get up to altitude and speed before we hit the river but i wonder what things will be like when we begin deeper strikes. Even though we haven't been going too deep, the fuel consumption has me a bit worried. Especially when we hear of HQ types studying maps around Berlin and along the Baltic.

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Just to let every one know. I have a Thud Pilot by the name of Edwin Flowers who is on a roll flying WOE 1962. I'll post the briefings soon.

I had a hell of a great campaign in an F-15 some time back and i didn't get anywhere near mach 2 during all that flying.

I feel for you Rambler, I had that happen to me on a few occasions. http://combatace.com/gallery/image/16353-clipboard-a19jpg/ Alas, Captain Jefferson Nighthawk was declared MIA after being shot down in a fight against overwhelming odds. During an escort mission, two flights of the 121st TFS and some friendlies were involved in a battle against a large enemy force. Captain Nighhawk accounted for a MIG21 and two MIG19s. When he was lost, he was engaged with 8 MIG19s while accompanied by only a single member of his flight. Despite the odds, Captain Nighthawk fiercely engaged the enemy and accounted for two before his plane was hit and caught fire. He was last seen bailing out of his stricken aircraft.

http://combatace.com/gallery/image/16347-clipboard-a17jpg/ 18NOV62 Another mission,another loss. Just from the location of the target we knew that it was going to be a hard one. All the way up to the Polish coastline! If we had trouble we were going to be in a terrible fix so far behind the lines. Took a single flight up and ran into difficulties right off the bat. Dallas flight was up early and so there was no way that we were going to form up on them anytime soon since we also needed to get ourselves sorted. We had to climb to 25,000ft since down where Dallas was we'd run out of fuel. Damn those 53rd TFS Thuds! By the time we got settled, there were about 25 miles ahead of us and i was praying hard that some patrolling Mig would not come across them. Luckily, it all went smooth as the only enemy planes around were bombers and soon after overflying Berlin we caught up with the Thuds. All was fine until we got to the IP. Two Mig 17s came up from 11 low out of nowhere and were in business. I now realized that we should have went down to cover Dallas. got to give the reds some credit, they had a hell of a plan. First they sent the 17s to tie us up, sent 21s after the Thuds, and then threw some MIG19s in so we couldn't just break away and go down on the tails of the 21s. I got the 17 lead rather quickly with my guns and after going on a bit at his wingman, was prepared to cover Dallas again when my wingman, Capt Suzanne called out that he was hit. As soon as i looked back and saw those MIG19s i knew we had no chance and had to run for it. Diving down to treetop level we went full burner with the MIGs after us. I can't remeber exactly how fast we were going but when it seemed right, pulled the nose up and began a zoom climb. We didn't stop climbing until 35,000ft was on the altimeter and back to the front we fled. Forget about false heroics. There were Migs on both flanks and behind us and no way were three Huns were going to make a fight of it. No one saw exactly what happend back there so Captain Alan Suzanne has been declared MIA.

http://combatace.com/files/category/339-user-made-campaigns/ It's for the first WOV version. Makes it a completely different beast. So much so that to me, it was like getting a new sim.

http://combatace.com/gallery/image/16339-clipboard-a16jpg/ 17NOV62 We got lucky not to lose anyone today. As far as i'm concerned it was a fiasco. With all the friendlies in the area we should have scored well but lost two birds. 1LT Lesan's to a MiG19 and 2LT Tucks to a MIG21 missle.Damn good thing the fight was over our side of the front so they were able to jump to safety. Most likely the main error was only going with a single flight. Perhaps a second one would have kept the enemy on the defensive. I got two gun kills, both MIG21s. Could have gotten a third after chasing him for about 25 miles but he was really good and i was really bad. When i finally decided to saddle him nice and close, i was out of ammo and so could only go home. Intell tells me that judging from the radio traffic they intercepted, one of them was a high ranking VIP. Glad to know that! One less ace for us to worry about.

Hey Cliff, it takes a while to adjust to the flak while in a SPAD. You can't go high speed so you have to choose your routes and tactics very carefully.