Rick Rawlings

Hmm. Perhaps... Under impulse power, however, they should still emit gas. That's how we'll get them! Care to operate on a torpedo with me, doctor?

Rick Rawlings No. 24 Sqn, June 1916 Bertangles Aerodrome Had a big tangle with a bunch of Eindeckers last week. We were doing a line patrol at 7000 feet when we ran into a bunch of them escorting a recon flight. For a bit, it was just avoiding collisions and clearing each other's tails. Then the fight broke up and were on our own for a moment before we found another flight. Then the fight was joined in earnest. I put in claims for two but as they went down over the lines at low altitude, no one else saw them, so no confirmation for old Rick Rawlings! Oh well, I know I did my part in my heart! Winding my way back on my own, I was amazed to see a train racing full steam across the front, right through No Man's Land! When I landed, I told the others about it, but they said it was very hush-hush... called it "Olham's Express" and said it was doing "God's work"...they advised me not to speak of it again... * Right after that flight, we learned that Max Immelman had been shot down. Now this is weird, but some pilots started reporting of a phantom scout that dives from a sweeping turn on high to shoot at their planes, saying that it is the shade of the downed pilot, seeking revenge! Normally, I would not be one to give much credence to such tales, but the strangest thing happened to me on this morning's flight. I was flying along, more or less in formation, when suddely, I was attacked! The crack of machine gun rounds sailed past my ears, spars were hit and shredded and canvas torn from its ribs! I sent my machine into a spinning dive and when I pulled out, I looked around but no enemy machines could be seen! What was worse, there was the rest of my flight, carrying on as if nothing had happened! They all claimed that they had seen nothing, and had thought that I was having a seizure! What was worse, when I got down, there was no damage of any kind to my bus! The Major was sympathetic, but I noticed that our ration of alcohol was cut way down at the mess tonight. Or maybe it was just mine. Spooky!

Nice! We can always use another Aussie in the ranks! Rick Rawlings No. 24 Sqn, June 1916 Bertangles Aerodrome Today we unpacked the mystery of "Rolands"... Our base was attacked by three of the two-seated hunmobiles and while we shot one of them down, they put enough holes through each of our machines that none of out busses were deemed airworthy until repairs were completed on them two days later... Let me tell you how it all went down:

I know... I am going to have a word with my ground crew about that...

Rick Rawlings No. 24 Sqn May, 1916 Bertangles Aerodrome We are finally starting to make some headway against the Huns! After a slow start since my first flight a few months ago, I have recently brought down two Eindeckers! The first was after we were attacked while pursuing some recon scouts of the enemy. The story goes something like this: The second one was the other day when we were attacked (again) as we were diving on the rail yard at Athies Junction. It was something like this: All of this was without the loss of any of our pilots! I can only hope our good fortune holds. I have a sense of foreboding, however: yesterday a French pilot crashed in the field near our drome, his plane shot to pieces. As the pulled him from the wreck to take him to the field hospital, he just kept babbling one word: "Rolands..."

Yes to the Rolands! A thousand deaths are not enough for Rolands!

She does better at 95 than I do at my age!

Plus, it's pretty fun to say "Eleven, Eleven, Eleven" over and over again! Try it!

Nice pictures!

Watch out for the trees. They tend to pop out at you...

Salut!

Nice work, Hellshade! A SPAD, huh? How'd you ever catch him???

Nice! I rarely see him when flying against him...

True! There was another guy in the fight that I didn't really get to engage that looked like he had something black on his side. That was the guy I was wondering about...

He's already better than me...

Here's one more!

The Pfalz, huh? Best of luck!

I really don't like them... it becomes a case of everybody can see you but you can't see anybody!

I agree with the effects that you are asking to be implemented, if they aren't at all implemented. Having played since phase 3, I've been killed maybe twice. I don't think I have been hit yet in the new version, so maybe bad luck?

I don't know if they officially do, but you can bump late afternoon flights forward a few hours to take place at night, but...it's dark!

Heh, yes! Still catching up on my one-gun missions! Having said that... Karl Spieler Jasta 2 March, 1917 Between Douai and Cambrai... As the front shifts we have been moved back, hopping from one field to the next. Still, we have it better than the infantry, furiously digging new trenches as they pitch back and forth. I see them like mad little ants when the siren blows and am thankful I am not down there. Still, there is no safety in the skies, either. I shot down numbers 13 and 14 yesterday: both on fire before they hit, not a pleasant thought...and no sign of this even being close to over...

Karl Spieler Jasta 2 February, 1917 Near Pronville von Richtoffen is gone. He of course was selected to head Jasta 11. I am currently the top scorer, by I think the kid, Voss, is going to outdo us all. What a fantastic flier! Like Boelcke himself! We headed out the other day and were immediately buzzed by a Nieuport thinking he would get an easy kill. But being a poor shot, he missed and flew past me allowing for an easy kill on my part. I would have loved to ask him what he was thinking, but there wasn't much left when he cooled off enough to be pulled from the shell crater he crashed into. We finally got enough of the DII Albatros models for me to get one. I do like the improved view...

OMG! I am SUCH an idiot! I just figured out that back when I separately bound each gun on the SE5a to a different button for the Rick Rawlings Challenge that also applied to any plane with two guns side by side. So the whole time I have been wondering why planes are so spongy, I've only been using one gun!!! I was watching Fullofit's videos over in the DiD campaign and wondered how he was dropping them so fast! having said that: Karl Spieler Jasta 2 February, 1917 Near Pronville Ran into one of those new British scouts the other day: it's like a short Sopwith Strutter. Very maneuverable, best do do straight in strikes! Not very sturdy though, they can be crippled with a few hits... *notice when I fire, the reflection on the top wing only lights up over the left gun... also, I am really not liking how you can't see those bare trees until the last minute!

I had no idea these games existed until I joined forums like this!

Karl Spieler Jasta 2 January, 1917 Near Pronville The fortunes of war have brought our aerodrome closer to the front, which puts us at risk of attack almost upon takeoff. This happened the other day when we had planned to hop over the lines to end an observation balloon that was always spying our comings and goings. We had not gotten very far when the others started turning and climbing about the sky. I always do the same and pretend that I know what they are on about, but I rarely do. Anyway, we were soon attacked by a flight of Nieuports and in short business I had my gas line shot away, either by a Nupe, or by the ground fire coming up from the enemy lines. As I swung to the east, I got one good raking pass on an enemy bus. I must have hit the pilot or the controls as he went into a diving turn to the left and never pulled out. Settling down near one of our balloons, I watched the fight go on above me until a lorry came over to have a look at me and my wounded bird...