|
Seize life. Be an ermine.
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
Casino cash: $-752449
 VARSITY
|
rel="Lightbox"?attachmentid=21529" border="0" alt="" class="tcattdimgresizer" onload="NcodeImageResizer.createOn(this);" />
B-17 #14 – Lucy Quipment II – Lucy Reloaded
Pilot Clint in Wichita (10)
Copilot 2bikemike (10)
Bombardier Loki (5)
Navigator chief52 (10)
Engineer old_geezer (10)
Radio Op. chiefsfan58 (10)
Tail Gunner Patteeu (10)
Ball Turret Gunner FloridaChief (5)
Right Waist Gunner JazzzLovr (2)
Left Waist Gunner KS Smitty (2)
Target: the industrial complex at Emden, on Germany’s north coast
Mid-formation horizontally and vertically (low vulnerability)
Distance: 7 Zones
Zone 1 Out: Britain
No enemy
Zone 2 Out: English Channel
No enemy
Zone 3 Out: North Sea
No enemy
Zone 4 Out: North Sea
No enemy
Zone 5 Out: North Sea – out of fighter range
No enemy
Zone 6 Out: North Sea
No enemy
Zone 7 Out: Germany (Entering Target Zone)
1 Me109 attacks
Chiefsfan58 fires, misses
Old_geezer fires, kills Me109
Patteeu fires, kills the same Me109, creating a huge fireball
Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
Light Flak-2 hits
-tail – patteeu’s tail gun is knocked out of commission
-superficial damage to pilot compartment
Loki lays down the bombs. He shoots! He scores! – 60% score!
Zone 7 Out: Germany (Leaving Target Zone)
3 Me109s attack
Loki fires, misses
Old_geezer fires, misses
Chief52 fires, misses
KS Smitty fires, misses
2 Mes miss, break off attack
Me scores 2 hits
-superficial damage to pilot compartment
-superficial damage to pilot compartment
Me circles, attacks again
Chief52 fires, misses
Loki fires, misses
Me misses, breaks off attack
Zone 6: North Sea
No enemy
Zone 5: North Sea
2 Fw190s are driven off by other B-17s.
Zone 4: North Sea – back in fighter range
No enemy
Zone 3: North Sea
3 Me109s attack
Chief52 fires, damages Me109
Loki fires, misses
Jazzzlovr fires, misses
Floridachief fires, misses
Old_geezer fires, misses
2 Mes miss, break off attack
Damaged Me scores 2 hits, breaks off attack
-pilot compartment – 2bikemike takes a fluke serious hit to the right arm, shattering his elbow badly.
-port wing root slightly damaged
Zone 2: English Channel
No enemy
Zone 1: England
Bad weather – drizzle and dense fog
Clint in Wichita brings the lightly damaged plane down for a smooth landing in the dense fog. Lucy Quipment touches down lightly, rumbles down the runway, and –AAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Too quick to react, Clint sees another B-17 emerge from the mist, a plane that has belly landed and come to a stop in the middle of the runway. With the badly injured 2bikemike unable to help, Clint locks up the starboard brakes and tries to cut the starboard engines. It’s too late to take off over the plane.
Down in the nose, loki’s and chief52’s eyes bulge as they see the other plane, then the entire crew is thrown to the left at Clint’s last-ditch efforts.
B-17’s aren’t very maneuverable, though, so Clint’s efforts have only a minor but important effect. Instead of ramming the other plane dead-on, Lucy Quipment’s nose runs over the top of the other plane’s wing and the lower fuselage shears off the wing. Lucy Quipment’s left wing shears off the tailplane of the other B-17, and Lucy Quipment barrels on, with a big gash just in front of the bomb bay and missing a chunk of the port wing. Floridachief is unharmed in the ball turret, but has a great story to tell about the wing pieces that bombarded his turret.
Lucy Quipment comes to a bouncy, rough stop in the field next to the runway and the crew evacuates quickly, with Clint helping 2bikemike jump down from the pilot compartment.
Aftereffects
While the other plane took a beating, Lucy Quipment fared relatively well. The ground crew can fix the damage, and the plane will fly again.
Unfortunately, we can’t say the same thing about 2bikemike. Having nearly lost his arm, he’s headed back to the states to get a long rehabilitation and learn to write with his left hand.
Eligible for next mission
Pilot Clint in Wichita (10)
Copilot Loki (5) , promoted
Bombardier chief52 (10) , promoted
Navigator old_geezer (10) , promoted
Engineer chiefsfan58 (10) , promoted
Radio Op. Patteeu (10) , promoted
Tail Gunner FloridaChief (5) , promoted
Ball Turret Gunner JazzzLovr (2) , promoted
Right Waist Gunner KS Smitty (2), promoted
Left Waist Gunner XXX
It was all routine for the first ten zones of the mission, and then it went downhill from there.
__________________
Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history.
|