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Larner's Last Stand


DeFreest Larner

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In which I dive into a 20+ plane furball and immediately regret my decision: 
 

 

On a side note, watching back Hotlead's stream after the night, was very happy to see Gen mention a "93rd SPAD"! Would hate to be lumped in with that US103 lot, ya'know? ;) 

Was also really cool that Gen noticed the number. I actually officially fly No. 0, but 24 is my "other other SPAD" ;)

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17 hours ago, DeFreest Larner said:

In which I dive into a 20+ plane furball and immediately regret my decision: 

It is amazing how well you scissor and roll in that thing; and how resistant it is to stalling.  That pull-up and rudder-over thing you do, getting good hits while passing, is amazing.  I have to learn that, since the D.VII is no stellar turner....it does lose energy most distressingly.  You might even be able to out-turn one in a sustained turn, if you were light enough!  You put hits on 3 of those planes, any of which would have given you an eventual shoot-down credit.  Was that Dr.1 possibly Angry Goat?

Also, there was more than one occasion when you were on a path to collision, and instead of holding your ground, you honorably ducked under the other guy, even though you were the one outnumbered.

A very creditable action, indeed.

S!

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8 hours ago, Snaggle said:

Music sounded familiar what was the track?

Also amazing fight!

Track is Barber's Adagio for Strings, famously from this scene of Platoon: 
 

I was laughing my head off picturing that scene while putting the track to the video of the dogfight, haha! 

 

 

4 hours ago, Luftritter said:

It is amazing how well you scissor and roll in that thing; and how resistant it is to stalling.  That pull-up and rudder-over thing you do, getting good hits while passing, is amazing.  I have to learn that, since the D.VII is no stellar turner....it does lose energy most distressingly.  You might even be able to out-turn one in a sustained turn, if you were light enough!  You put hits on 3 of those planes, any of which would have given you an eventual shoot-down credit.  Was that Dr.1 possibly Angry Goat?

Also, there was more than one occasion when you were on a path to collision, and instead of holding your ground, you honorably ducked under the other guy, even though you were the one outnumbered.

A very creditable action, indeed.

S!

Thank you for the kind words, sir! I assure you, it took much practice before I could chuck a SPAD around like that without killing myself! The rudder deflection can be both a blessing and a curse. She bleeds energy very fast once you start turning hard, and you have to consciously work to keep your energy up if you're forced into a fight like that otherwise you'll stall out fairly rapidly. I think I'd rather have been in the D.VII F in this example ;)

Unfortunately for my score, this took place right on the doorstep of a German field, so all the Jasta boys landed out safe and sound, with no credit given. I did pick up 3 confirmed in the mega-dogfight before getting caught though, so not a total loss! 

I believe the pilots were:

Initial D.VII F - J30_Hangman
Alb: GenMarkof
Second D.VII F - J99*Sizzlorr (He's the one that put me out of my misery) 
Dr.I - Butzzell 
Pfalz, looming ominously in the background - Hotlead 

As for the ram-dodging, I abhor collisions, even when they're the only sure way to get a kill in a hopeless situation! Deliberately ramming an opponent isn't really my style ;)

S! 






 

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