Well,I think your post was brilliant, Blackdog_kt .
I agree 100% with your message to the community: "keep your mind open!"

It will be interesting to see how having a passenger on your lap is going to be portrayed in the sim.

There are a lot of RL stories about pilots having to double-up in tight situations. Here goes some quotes from a book "The Spitfire, Mustang and Kittyhawk in Australian Service" by Stewart Wilson

""Waddy's (John Waddy 15.5 confirmed kills) achieved some fame over an incident which well illustrates that determination.During a ground strafing attack, he found his Kittyhawks engine badly badly overheating. Giving him no alternative but to make a forced landing behind enemy lines. It apeared a long walk home was in front of him, but the approach of three enemy trucks made him have a go at restarting his engine.

Supprisingly , it did and Waddy was able to takeoff and fly at a very low altitude and airspeed for about half an hour before the Alison once again began dangerously overheating. So once more the Kittyhawk was put down, but this time Waddy deliberately allowed enough time for it to cool down before restarting it again and once more taking off. He nursed the aircraft and its red hot engine back to base, just making it before the Allison finally called it quits and sized."

"The flamboyant Gibbes (Bobby Gibbes CO of 3 Squadron 10.25 Kills) carved his own bit of immortality by indulging in one of the more spectacular examples of what was called "double dinking'. This was when a pilot landed his single seat fighter on the desert in order to pick up one of his downed comp[anions. With the rescued pilot sitting on his rescuer's lap and one of them operating the rudder pedals and the other the throttle and stick, many a pilot was saved from becomming a prisoner of war by this method.
Gibbes' rescue came about during a straffing mission on an enemy airfield when one of his pilots was hit by flack and had to belly land on the edge of the field. With his other pilots flying cover, Gibbes landed his P-40 on the enemy airfield- while under intense fire - picked up his passenger and pee'd pff quick!"

"Another 3 Squadron puulled off a probably enven more daring 'double dink' when he landed under intense artillery fire to rescue a stranded Major"

All would make interesting missions in the correct setting.

Cheers!

In the initial release - just like Il-2.

We'll have our DCG and DGEN, our SEOW and something else - it'll just take time.

Just thought I'd add, one dictionary definition of 'renegade' is - 'person who deserts a cause.'

Lots of possible storylines in that sentence alone. It doesn't necessarily mean joining the opposition.

In any case, I agree it will be interesting to see what 's been done and what can be done with the new options being made available.

On August 11, 1943, an Italian captured P-38 flown by Angelo Tondi shot down B-17F 42-30307 “Bonnie Sue” (97th BG, 414th BS).

http://www.combatreform.org/Image329.jpg

He must have been just as worried about being shot down by his own side as the enemy, considering how distinctive the Lightning's appearance is ;)

+1

And remember Klunk, if we do get the Med there is a high probability that the B-25 is in there. Think of the SvAF Big Wing reenacted with a new high fidelity B25 over North Africa. ;)

Will probably have to leave work for a month or two!

I wonder with the renagade Spits thing, does that mean blue gets these?
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...spit_color.jpg:grin:

thanks for this interview

I think you'll rather see something to the effect that you and your wingman are engaged by 109s (from above afcourse) and a 109 gets on your tail and your wingman refuses to shoot him of!