Give me some "holy sh... did that just happen" ideas

[heywooood]

well...this was a productive exercise...

please cancel the project before anymore brylcream coated fingers are pointed at anymore nerds

but I have one suggestion - can we accumulate points for the bridges we fly under? maybe keep a stat for it along with the victory tally...sort of a way to earn charisma points toward leadership (maybe even include demerits when the brash act is witnessed by the observer corp or home guard)

[Wutz]

Originally Posted by heywooood

well...this was a productive exercise...

please cancel the project before anymore brylcream coated fingers are pointed at anymore nerds

but I have one suggestion - can we accumulate points for the bridges we fly under? maybe keep a stat for it along with the victory tally...sort of a way to earn charisma points toward leadership (maybe even include demerits when the brash act is witnessed by the observer corp or home guard)

Oh oh watch it on that one! Just mentioning that my former squadron had that as a training element for bombers brought smart a$$ replies about that is total BS and was not done.......
But to tell you the truth it is a hell of a lot of fun, and a fair amount of pilots did that kind of stuff.....although no point in showing the nay sayers original picture material as they know it better....

[Mad G]

Jammed guns

[heywooood]

Originally Posted by Wutz

Oh oh watch it on that one! Just mentioning that my former squadron had that as a training element for bombers brought smart a$$ replies about that is total BS and was not done.......
But to tell you the truth it is a hell of a lot of fun, and a fair amount of pilots did that kind of stuff.....although no point in showing the nay sayers original picture material as they know it better....

give a young pilot wings for war, hand him the keys to a Spitfire, Me109 or fill in the blank and TRY to keep him from buzzing the sailboats on the lake, cows in the field, mushing the treetops or flying under the nearest bridge....

If it were me - I guarantee you could not stop me from doing it - and since this is the only way it can be me, then I guess I'll be doing it virtually

[Wutz]

Originally Posted by heywooood

give a young pilot wings for war, hand him the keys to a Spitfire, Me109 or fill in the blank and TRY to keep him from buzzing the sailboats on the lake, cows in the field, mushing the treetops or flying under the nearest bridge....

If it were me - I guarantee you could not stop me from doing it - and since this is the only way it can be me, then I guess I'll be doing it virtually

Absolutely! A good friend of mine would do that a lot with a Cessna, was always great fun being in for the ride and buzzing sail boats!

[Krt_Bong]

On the subject of flying under bridges it would be cool if there were some places where bridges span deeper than the normal IL-2 Height and the ability to make AI aircraft fly under them for some interesting user made missions, hangers with doors open at both ends as well. This might provide a Holy Sh*t moment if you had a Tiger moth fly under or through a hanger in a one-off mission.

[Monguse]

Unpainted Spam tin cans and tin from other kinds of cans were used for quick repair.

I'm sure some of us would get a kick out of a visual inspection of the plane and finding out we have one of those gems.