B-17 #5 El Duderino's Mission Recap Thread - Page 4

Talisman · 01-24-2004, 04:10 PM

Here's a thread where we can keep our missions, celebrate the good runs, review the bad ones, and drink to fallen crew members.

Let's hope The Dude is still flying high many missions from now.

**RealSNR** · 04-11-2004, 07:35 AM

Umm, yeah, it wasn't a good mission

tk13 · 04-14-2004, 04:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SNR

Umm, yeah, it wasn't a good mission

Uh, thanks. It was fun working with you guys, now I'll have to be on my way to jinxing another plane...

Talisman · 04-14-2004, 10:54 PM

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B-17 #5 – El Duderino

Pilot ENDelt260 (11)
Copilot SNR (11)
Bombardier philfree (11)
Navigator Talisman (11)
Engineer AJKCFAN (11)
Radio Op. Radar Chief (11)
Tail Gunner hawaiianboy (11)
Ball Turret Gunner PennyWise (11)
Right Waist Gunner tk13 (2)
Left Waist Gunner Mile High Mania

Target: La Rochelle’s distant U-boats
Mid-formation horizontally, low vertically (high vulnerability)
Distance: 8 zones

Zone 1 Out: Britain

No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

No enemy

Zone 3 Out: Western Channel

2 Me110s attack

philfree fires, misses
pennywise fires, misses
Talisman fires, misses
Hawaiianboy fires, kills Me110

Me misses, breaks off attack

2 Me109s attack – 1 is driven off by fighters

Ajkcfan fires, misses
Hawaiianboy fires, misses
pennywise fires, misses

Me misses, breaks off attack

Zone 4 Out: France

5 Fw190s attack

philfree fires, misses
pennywise fires, misses
Talisman fires, misses
Ajkcfan fires, hits Fw190
Radarchief fires, kills Fw190
Milehighmania fires, hits Fw190

2 Fws miss, break off attack

Fw scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to starboard wing

Fw scores 2 hits
-superficial damage to tail
-port wing – aileron destroyed

2 Fws circle, attack again

Ajkcfan fires, hits Fw190
Talisman fires, misses
Tk13 fires, hits Fw190
philfree fires, misses

2 Fws miss, break off attack

It is becoming obvious to the crew and the rest of the bombing flight that this mission has been compromised. Fighters are waiting for them at every opportunity, and additional German fighters have come up to pull away the fighter cover. Someone knew about this mission.

2 Fw190s attack

philfree fires, misses
pennywise fires, misses
Tk13 fires, misses

Fw misses, breaks off attack

Fw scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to bomb bay

Zone 5: France (out of fighter range)

1 Me109 attacks

Ajkcfan fires, misses

Me scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to pilot compartment

Me circles, attacks again

philfree fires, misses
Ajkcfan fires, misses
Talisman fires, misses

Me misses, breaks off attack

2 Me109s, 1 Me110 attack

philfree fires, misses
Tk13 fires, misses
Hawaiianboy fires, hits Me109
Ajkcfan fires, misses
Me110 misses, breaks off attack

Me109 sweeps in and plants 8 hits into El Duderino!
-superficial damage to nose
-pilot compartment – SNR takes a serious wound as a shell goes through an artery in his left thigh and then shatters his right knee. He loses consciousness from blood loss as he works to tie a tourniquet around his leg.
-superficial damage to bomb bay
-superficial damage to bomb bay
-radio room – the radio is knocked out of commission
-waist – tk13 is seriously wounded by a shot to the stomach
-waist – mile high mania is killed instantly by two shots that remove the left side of his chest
-tail – Hawaiianboy’s oxygen system is knocked out, and he switches to his backup system

Me circles, attacks again

Ajkcfan fires, kills Me109

Zone 6: France

5 Fw190s attack

philfree fires, misses
pennywise fires, misses
Talisman fires, misses
Radarchief fires, hits Fw190
Ajkcfan fires, hits Fw190
Hawaiianboy fires, kills Fw190

Fw misses, breaks off attack

Fw scores 2 hits
-superficial damage to starboard wing
-superficial damage to nose

Fw scores 1 hit
-pilot compartment – Enddelt loses his oxygen and switches to his backup system.

Fw scores 5 hits
-superficial damage to bomb bay
-pilot compartment – the control cables are damaged but still operable
-port wing - #1 engine is hit and dies. Unfortunately, the propeller is windmilling, and Enddelt can’t feather it.
-port wing - #1 engine’s oil tank is hit. Oil begins streaming out of the engine.
-waist – control cables to the rudder are severed. There will be no more controlled yawing on this trip.

Enddelt is having trouble up front. The #1 engine won’t feather, which means that the plane yaws left at high speed. Enddelt has to slow down to a very low speed to maintain control, and the busted rudder isn’t helping. Combined with the loss of the #1 engine and both waist gunners, El Duderino is going to be a sitting duck at the target.

“We’re aborting,” Enddelt decides, and is about to announce it over the intercom as the 3 Fw190s circle around for another attack.

philfree fires, misses
pennywise fires, misses
Talisman fires, misses
Ajkcfan fires, kills Fw190
Radarchief fires, kills Fw190
Hawaiianboy fires, misses

Fw scores 1 hit
-pilot compartment – BZZBZZBZZBZZTTTTTT – All of the gauges in the cockpit drop to zero. The cockpit’s electrical system has been knocked out. Enddelt hears philfree say, “Hey, my elec-“ and then remembers the hiss of the damaged oxygen system. Ripping off his seat belt, he’s a step too slow as an electrical spark ignites the leaking oxygen. The cockpit explodes into flames, engulfing an unconscious SNR. Flames momentarily engulf Enddelt, and AJKCfan leaps forward with an extinguisher to put them out as the plane begins a slow, unmanned bank right.

A stunned and injured Enddelt stumbles toward the back of the plane as chaos erupts. Ed Duderino slowly turns onto its back and points nose first toward the ground. AJKCfan is the only one who knows the situation and yells, “Bail Out! Bail Out!” as the other crew members simply yell in surprise. It’s every man for himself at this point.

Rookie Left Waist Gunner Mile High Mania was already KIA aboard the plane, and is buried with it.

Copilot SNR (11), well, we won’t talk about it. It was ugly. Burning cockpit, unconscious with a serious wound, diving plane.

Right Waist Gunner Tk13 (2) was seriously wounded already, and despite his best efforts, can’t make it to the escape hatch. He rides the plane down and dies in the crash.

Pilot ENDelt260 (11) was grabbed by Radio Op Radar Chief and hauled to an escape hatch. The two jump out together, and Radar Chief pulls Enddelt’s rip cord for him before kicking away to open his own. Enddelt, painfully burned, floats to the ground where he’s mercifully met quickly by German troops. He spends the rest of the war convalescing in a German POW camp.

Engineer AJKCfan hoped to run through the plane to give the bailout order, but ended up being thrown down into the nose when the plane nosed down. He gives the order to philfree and Talisman, who had both already figured it out, and the three bail out together. AJKCfan hits the ground in the middle of a vineyard, and huddles amongst the vines for an hour as German troops sweep the area. With no chance of escape, he can do nothing but wait as they draw near, and then surrenders.

Tail Gunner hawaiianboy (11) heard philfree’s initial message about losing electricity, then ended up facing straight up with smoke billowing into his pod. Putting two and two together, he sends a bailout message over the now-dead intercom and clambers out his escape hatch. Floating to the ground, he ends up in an open field. He hides in a small barn for most of the next day, then makes a break for it, having no idea where he is. He is captured without incident, dirty and hungry, walking down a dirt road seven days later, heading north toward the coast.

Bombardier philfree (11) gets the unenviable task of bailing out underneath a burning, diving plane. After a near miss evading the port wing, he floats to the ground near a small village. Debating his options, he heads to a house and knocks on the door. The family hustles him in, and soon a platoon of villagers descends. He is hustled to a different home in the village, but after a door to door search, the Germans find him hiding in a root cellar almost exactly 24 hours after the crash. He surrenders.

Ball Turret Gunner PennyWise (11) has been here before, having been thrown out of an exploding plane over the Netherlands in Mission 9 and making his way back. The ball turret is a different game, though, since there’s no parachute there. With no electrical system, he hand cranks his turret into position as the plane accelerates into a vertical dive, and opens up the hatch into the plane. Smoke is filling the fuselage, and his parachute is nowhere to be found. However, there’s a body dangling from its tether at the left waist gun position. PennyWise makes his way to milehighmania and quickly decides that he won’t be needing his chute any more. After a painstaking and interminable struggle to remove the chute, he puts it on himself and dumps out of the plane at a scant 3,000 foot altitude. Floating to the ground, he watches El Duderino nail a home in a small village in a massive explosion. Pennywise makes a smooth landing, throws away his chute, and starts to find the nearest home in the village. However, he notes that the streets are crawling with Germans and instead ducks back into the woods. No help there. He walks the other direction…and walks...and walks. The next day he locates a road, and follows the road for another day. Finally locating a farmhouse, he knocks on the door, but the farmer, his eyes wide, shakes his head and slams it. Now paranoid, Pennywise decides to just head north. Nine days after the crash, he is surrounded by German soldiers as he steals apples from an orchard on his way to the coast. He surrenders.

Navigator Talisman (11) and Radio Op. Radar Chief (11) hit the ground near each other and take off running together. They locate the same village nearby, and an elderly woman runs out and motions them into her home. Once inside, she pries a board loose from the floor and frantically motions them to it. For the next several hours, they hide in the spiderweb-infested crawl space as jackbooted German footsteps come in and out of the house, cringing at the yelling they can’t understand. The next day, some bread, cheese, and wine is hurriedly passed down to them. That evening, a trio of men and a woman pull them out, and they take a quick bath and change into civilian clothes. In halting English, one of the men explains the plan. He will accompany them by train to Paris, where they will then transfer and take another train to the coast. Since the train is full of German soldiers, the Frenchman will portray their caretaker and they will portray two mentally challenged mutes named Renfrew and Jacques. After another day of delay buying train tickets, the trio sets out, the two Americans convincingly playing their roles. Despite sharing a train car with three German officers and half a dozen enlisted men, they make the six hour ride to Paris without incident, and then successfully transfer to the coastal train. At Normandy, they disembark, hide out in another safe house, and the following night, they wade out in the moonless dark to a small dinghy dispatched by a British spy vessel. The next night, they’re raising a toast to their fallen crew in the British town of Rye.

No bombing run.

Aftereffects

Since two crew members will report for duty, El Duderino will fly again.

Eligible for next mission

Pilot XXX
Copilot XXX
Bombardier Talisman (11), promoted
Navigator XXX
Engineer Radar Chief (11), promoted
Radio Op. XXX
Tail Gunner XXX
Ball Turret Gunner XXX
Right Waist Gunner XXX
Left Waist Gunner XXX

PastorMikH · 04-23-2004, 03:25 PM

I am assuming this is the crew thread for my new plane. I would like to go ahead and share a bit here so everyone is up to speed. I will be in the hanger an hour before takeoff for prayer - I encourage all the crew to join me. The In-Flight Sermon will commence once we are clear of the air field. If for some reason you hear me speak the Lord's name on the flight, it is NOT spoken in vain, it is spoken in prayer.

PastorMikH · 04-23-2004, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ENDelt260

Little late, aren't ya Pastor? Coulda used some prayers before I went down in flames.

I wasn't on your crew then.

If it is any consolation, your funeral was a sight to see!

PastorMikH · 04-23-2004, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ENDelt260

I'M NOT DEAD YET!!

Oh, my bad. Still, you should have been there. FWIW, if you do go down and die now, you've already had a funeral.

Slayer Diablo · 04-23-2004, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ENDelt260

I'M NOT DEAD YET!!

Slayer: Yes you are. You're not fooling anyone.
ENDelt: I think I'll go for a walk!
Slayer: to Pastor Isn't there anything you can do to take him?
ENDelt: I feel happy.... *bonk*
Slayer: Thank you.
Pastor: Your welcome.
Slayer: See you Thursday.

Sorry if I screwed up that MPHG scene

Talisman · 04-23-2004, 10:10 PM

Welcome, Pastor. Glad to have you aboard. With the look of this new crew, you may want to bump that up to an hour and a half of prayer.

01-24-2004, 04:10 PM
Talisman Champions Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Des Moines, IA Casino cash: $276743	B-17 #5 El Duderino's Mission Recap Thread Here's a thread where we can keep our missions, celebrate the good runs, review the bad ones, and drink to fallen crew members. Let's hope The Dude is still flying high many missions from now.
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04-14-2004, 10:54 PM	#48
Talisman Champions Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Des Moines, IA Casino cash: $276743	It still needs to be posted... rel="Lightbox"?attachmentid=21520" border="0" alt="" class="tcattdimgresizer" onload="NcodeImageResizer.createOn(this);" /> B-17 #5 – El Duderino Pilot ENDelt260 (11) Copilot SNR (11) Bombardier philfree (11) Navigator Talisman (11) Engineer AJKCFAN (11) Radio Op. Radar Chief (11) Tail Gunner hawaiianboy (11) Ball Turret Gunner PennyWise (11) Right Waist Gunner tk13 (2) Left Waist Gunner Mile High Mania Target: La Rochelle’s distant U-boats Mid-formation horizontally, low vertically (high vulnerability) Distance: 8 zones Zone 1 Out: Britain No enemy Zone 2 Out: English Channel No enemy Zone 3 Out: Western Channel 2 Me110s attack philfree fires, misses pennywise fires, misses Talisman fires, misses Hawaiianboy fires, kills Me110 Me misses, breaks off attack 2 Me109s attack – 1 is driven off by fighters Ajkcfan fires, misses Hawaiianboy fires, misses pennywise fires, misses Me misses, breaks off attack Zone 4 Out: France 5 Fw190s attack philfree fires, misses pennywise fires, misses Talisman fires, misses Ajkcfan fires, hits Fw190 Radarchief fires, kills Fw190 Milehighmania fires, hits Fw190 2 Fws miss, break off attack Fw scores 1 hit -superficial damage to starboard wing Fw scores 2 hits -superficial damage to tail -port wing – aileron destroyed 2 Fws circle, attack again Ajkcfan fires, hits Fw190 Talisman fires, misses Tk13 fires, hits Fw190 philfree fires, misses 2 Fws miss, break off attack It is becoming obvious to the crew and the rest of the bombing flight that this mission has been compromised. Fighters are waiting for them at every opportunity, and additional German fighters have come up to pull away the fighter cover. Someone knew about this mission. 2 Fw190s attack philfree fires, misses pennywise fires, misses Tk13 fires, misses Fw misses, breaks off attack Fw scores 1 hit -superficial damage to bomb bay Zone 5: France (out of fighter range) 1 Me109 attacks Ajkcfan fires, misses Me scores 1 hit -superficial damage to pilot compartment Me circles, attacks again philfree fires, misses Ajkcfan fires, misses Talisman fires, misses Me misses, breaks off attack 2 Me109s, 1 Me110 attack philfree fires, misses Tk13 fires, misses Hawaiianboy fires, hits Me109 Ajkcfan fires, misses Me110 misses, breaks off attack Me109 sweeps in and plants 8 hits into El Duderino! -superficial damage to nose -pilot compartment – SNR takes a serious wound as a shell goes through an artery in his left thigh and then shatters his right knee. He loses consciousness from blood loss as he works to tie a tourniquet around his leg. -superficial damage to bomb bay -superficial damage to bomb bay -radio room – the radio is knocked out of commission -waist – tk13 is seriously wounded by a shot to the stomach -waist – mile high mania is killed instantly by two shots that remove the left side of his chest -tail – Hawaiianboy’s oxygen system is knocked out, and he switches to his backup system Me circles, attacks again Ajkcfan fires, kills Me109 Zone 6: France 5 Fw190s attack philfree fires, misses pennywise fires, misses Talisman fires, misses Radarchief fires, hits Fw190 Ajkcfan fires, hits Fw190 Hawaiianboy fires, kills Fw190 Fw misses, breaks off attack Fw scores 2 hits -superficial damage to starboard wing -superficial damage to nose Fw scores 1 hit -pilot compartment – Enddelt loses his oxygen and switches to his backup system. Fw scores 5 hits -superficial damage to bomb bay -pilot compartment – the control cables are damaged but still operable -port wing - #1 engine is hit and dies. Unfortunately, the propeller is windmilling, and Enddelt can’t feather it. -port wing - #1 engine’s oil tank is hit. Oil begins streaming out of the engine. -waist – control cables to the rudder are severed. There will be no more controlled yawing on this trip. Enddelt is having trouble up front. The #1 engine won’t feather, which means that the plane yaws left at high speed. Enddelt has to slow down to a very low speed to maintain control, and the busted rudder isn’t helping. Combined with the loss of the #1 engine and both waist gunners, El Duderino is going to be a sitting duck at the target. “We’re aborting,” Enddelt decides, and is about to announce it over the intercom as the 3 Fw190s circle around for another attack. philfree fires, misses pennywise fires, misses Talisman fires, misses Ajkcfan fires, kills Fw190 Radarchief fires, kills Fw190 Hawaiianboy fires, misses Fw scores 1 hit -pilot compartment – BZZBZZBZZBZZTTTTTT – All of the gauges in the cockpit drop to zero. The cockpit’s electrical system has been knocked out. Enddelt hears philfree say, “Hey, my elec-“ and then remembers the hiss of the damaged oxygen system. Ripping off his seat belt, he’s a step too slow as an electrical spark ignites the leaking oxygen. The cockpit explodes into flames, engulfing an unconscious SNR. Flames momentarily engulf Enddelt, and AJKCfan leaps forward with an extinguisher to put them out as the plane begins a slow, unmanned bank right. A stunned and injured Enddelt stumbles toward the back of the plane as chaos erupts. Ed Duderino slowly turns onto its back and points nose first toward the ground. AJKCfan is the only one who knows the situation and yells, “Bail Out! Bail Out!” as the other crew members simply yell in surprise. It’s every man for himself at this point. Rookie Left Waist Gunner Mile High Mania was already KIA aboard the plane, and is buried with it. Copilot SNR (11), well, we won’t talk about it. It was ugly. Burning cockpit, unconscious with a serious wound, diving plane. Right Waist Gunner Tk13 (2) was seriously wounded already, and despite his best efforts, can’t make it to the escape hatch. He rides the plane down and dies in the crash. Pilot ENDelt260 (11) was grabbed by Radio Op Radar Chief and hauled to an escape hatch. The two jump out together, and Radar Chief pulls Enddelt’s rip cord for him before kicking away to open his own. Enddelt, painfully burned, floats to the ground where he’s mercifully met quickly by German troops. He spends the rest of the war convalescing in a German POW camp. Engineer AJKCfan hoped to run through the plane to give the bailout order, but ended up being thrown down into the nose when the plane nosed down. He gives the order to philfree and Talisman, who had both already figured it out, and the three bail out together. AJKCfan hits the ground in the middle of a vineyard, and huddles amongst the vines for an hour as German troops sweep the area. With no chance of escape, he can do nothing but wait as they draw near, and then surrenders. Tail Gunner hawaiianboy (11) heard philfree’s initial message about losing electricity, then ended up facing straight up with smoke billowing into his pod. Putting two and two together, he sends a bailout message over the now-dead intercom and clambers out his escape hatch. Floating to the ground, he ends up in an open field. He hides in a small barn for most of the next day, then makes a break for it, having no idea where he is. He is captured without incident, dirty and hungry, walking down a dirt road seven days later, heading north toward the coast. Bombardier philfree (11) gets the unenviable task of bailing out underneath a burning, diving plane. After a near miss evading the port wing, he floats to the ground near a small village. Debating his options, he heads to a house and knocks on the door. The family hustles him in, and soon a platoon of villagers descends. He is hustled to a different home in the village, but after a door to door search, the Germans find him hiding in a root cellar almost exactly 24 hours after the crash. He surrenders. Ball Turret Gunner PennyWise (11) has been here before, having been thrown out of an exploding plane over the Netherlands in Mission 9 and making his way back. The ball turret is a different game, though, since there’s no parachute there. With no electrical system, he hand cranks his turret into position as the plane accelerates into a vertical dive, and opens up the hatch into the plane. Smoke is filling the fuselage, and his parachute is nowhere to be found. However, there’s a body dangling from its tether at the left waist gun position. PennyWise makes his way to milehighmania and quickly decides that he won’t be needing his chute any more. After a painstaking and interminable struggle to remove the chute, he puts it on himself and dumps out of the plane at a scant 3,000 foot altitude. Floating to the ground, he watches El Duderino nail a home in a small village in a massive explosion. Pennywise makes a smooth landing, throws away his chute, and starts to find the nearest home in the village. However, he notes that the streets are crawling with Germans and instead ducks back into the woods. No help there. He walks the other direction…and walks...and walks. The next day he locates a road, and follows the road for another day. Finally locating a farmhouse, he knocks on the door, but the farmer, his eyes wide, shakes his head and slams it. Now paranoid, Pennywise decides to just head north. Nine days after the crash, he is surrounded by German soldiers as he steals apples from an orchard on his way to the coast. He surrenders. Navigator Talisman (11) and Radio Op. Radar Chief (11) hit the ground near each other and take off running together. They locate the same village nearby, and an elderly woman runs out and motions them into her home. Once inside, she pries a board loose from the floor and frantically motions them to it. For the next several hours, they hide in the spiderweb-infested crawl space as jackbooted German footsteps come in and out of the house, cringing at the yelling they can’t understand. The next day, some bread, cheese, and wine is hurriedly passed down to them. That evening, a trio of men and a woman pull them out, and they take a quick bath and change into civilian clothes. In halting English, one of the men explains the plan. He will accompany them by train to Paris, where they will then transfer and take another train to the coast. Since the train is full of German soldiers, the Frenchman will portray their caretaker and they will portray two mentally challenged mutes named Renfrew and Jacques. After another day of delay buying train tickets, the trio sets out, the two Americans convincingly playing their roles. Despite sharing a train car with three German officers and half a dozen enlisted men, they make the six hour ride to Paris without incident, and then successfully transfer to the coastal train. At Normandy, they disembark, hide out in another safe house, and the following night, they wade out in the moonless dark to a small dinghy dispatched by a British spy vessel. The next night, they’re raising a toast to their fallen crew in the British town of Rye. No bombing run. Aftereffects Since two crew members will report for duty, El Duderino will fly again. Eligible for next mission Pilot XXX Copilot XXX Bombardier Talisman (11), promoted Navigator XXX Engineer Radar Chief (11), promoted Radio Op. XXX Tail Gunner XXX Ball Turret Gunner XXX Right Waist Gunner XXX Left Waist Gunner XXX
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04-23-2004, 03:25 PM	#49
PastorMikH Will KC ever be better? Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Land of Red Dirt & Necks Casino cash: $9905087	I am assuming this is the crew thread for my new plane. I would like to go ahead and share a bit here so everyone is up to speed. I will be in the hanger an hour before takeoff for prayer - I encourage all the crew to join me. The In-Flight Sermon will commence once we are clear of the air field. If for some reason you hear me speak the Lord's name on the flight, it is NOT spoken in vain, it is spoken in prayer. __________________
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04-23-2004, 10:10 PM	#53
Talisman Champions Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Des Moines, IA Casino cash: $276743	Welcome, Pastor. Glad to have you aboard. With the look of this new crew, you may want to bump that up to an hour and a half of prayer.
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