00:00Hey everybody, it's Rick Rawlings. We're back with another Wings Over Flanders Field last
00:11hurrah mission. We are flying Rick Rawlings himself in the old grand campaign here. We
00:18are well, well, well into 1918. 62 missions flown, going for 63. Magic number, somebody
00:27probably said. Divisible by three at least, I guess. All right. So I'm going to get set
00:32up here, get a mission going. We'll make you wait for the ground crew to prepare the flight,
00:36probably advance time a little bit, and then we'll take it from there. Okay, we've got an
00:41intercept mission, wireless telegraph, inbound enemies somewhere coming from the front area.
00:49So we're going to be set up as if we were going out for a regular mission.
00:57We're way down here. Like that. And we've got plenty of people going on there. All that's
01:04left to do is go to the field. On the field, we've got this thing going on here again with
01:10my wet windshield. I have to report that.
01:17Some of that in this bug. Oh my god, these guys.
01:20I can't even report my bug, you guys. I can't even talk about my bug.
01:27Oh, there's a little pothole in the field there, I think. Yeah, right there.
01:33Did I damage earlier?
01:44There's my mixture. Back up a hair.
01:49So we're...
01:50Basically, it looks like they're coming, um, due east of our position.
01:54Turn around, basically.
02:02And must be... They must be up there, because look at these guys. They're already, like...
02:05They're way up there.
02:07Like, where's...
02:10I don't know.
02:13It is raining a little bit, so maybe... I don't know. It still feels like the windshield's
02:23not... In fact, it's not quite right. So look at them.
02:27Trying to get way up there.
02:28Alright.
02:29Let me...
02:30Climb for a bit, and see if I can find where they're at.
02:34Unless I immediately
02:35find them, I'll cut away.
02:37And they'll bring you back.
02:43So there's A-plane up there.
02:50And what I currently see at the moment, I can spot it.
02:52It was...
02:53Parching going up near it.
02:55I've just found it now, so...
03:07Get up here.
03:08Do some climbing, and then bring you back.
03:29Maybe he's also...
03:30Hiding, maybe?
03:33There's like this weird parallax look.
03:42What are you going on there?
03:43Alright.
03:49No, he's definitely...
03:51He's definitely doing some of these...
03:53It looks like a new one here.
04:01Yeah.
04:03I don't know what's going on.
04:04He's coming my way.
04:23It's close.
04:26I don't want to end my career just yet.
04:28I've got some big hits.
04:30It's kind of hard to believe.
04:31He's not showing more signs of damage than I am.
04:34I don't know what's going on.
04:57Oh, there goes part of his wing.
04:58That's going to do it right there.
05:28Archie is going to follow him all the way down.
05:31Now the thing is, they may, if Archie hits him enough, they may actually try to take credit
05:37for that and not give credit to me.
05:41But down is down, is down, I don't see anybody else, so maybe just that one plane came, some
05:55bombs our way.
05:58I'm going to look around for a bit, see if my crew form is up, they're coming right here.
06:09Just one of them is coming.
06:12I'm going to let him settle in, look around for a bit, and then see what's worth doing
06:18next.
06:19They're out over the front.
06:22Only one of my flight managed to join up with me.
06:26The reason is unknown for a moment.
06:29I do want to be careful because last time we did this, we had a flock of Fockers, as they
06:35say, join the fray and gave us a little bit of a hard time there.
06:39So I'm going to be kind of careful, look around for a little bit, try to do some climbing,
06:46see if we see anything, and if not, I'll probably head back, I guess.
06:52I'm getting into a few aircraft over there.
06:59I think they are, appear to be Fockers, and they're kind of, not really committing.
07:13There was more of them before, but as I kind of dragged them inland, we've got to try to
07:21get them over this balloon where the Archie will take them on.
07:24They're not completely biting.
07:29I'm just going to kind of hover around here for a minute, see what the big plan is here.
07:38I've got one guy and there's three of them, apparently hanging around.
07:48It's those odds I could probably deal with.
07:51I just don't know what happened to the other, there's like probably three more, three or
07:55three more, where they went to.
08:06I think we can stay high and off angle on them.
08:23Yeah, I think they are definitely moving.
08:25No?
08:26What are we doing?
08:31Crossing in front of me, which is a good idea.
08:34Just those three.
08:47Just those three.
08:51All around here.
09:08Hard to see in the deep blue.
09:12Over the balloon.
09:13Archie.
09:14You get the plane, you get the plane here, I'm wagging my wings a little bit.
09:27It might communicate to you what's going on.
09:42You're welcome.
09:43It's going to be very25 in front of me.
09:45You're a little bit too, it might be in front of me.
09:48Oh, there's a
10:09I'm just doing some kind of maneuver there, ah, hey, yes, D7, that's the other guy, so
10:28I gotta, um, change my Lewis gun now, Lewis drum out when I get his hands, I'm gonna guess
10:35that other guy's not dead, but just taking me out here, which is fine, didn't really expect
10:43to do a lot of killing, but I give these guys something to think about, oh, too much rudder,
11:05I'm splitting between these two guys here, here we go, hey, hey, hey now, hey, now,
11:19now, don't go be shooting with my other guy, be shooting my wingman, quickly, okay, okay,
11:33I'm running a little slow here, so, must be lots of stuff going on in the front, what
11:56what's this guy doing, look at you, that's a nice maneuver, I anticipated it, so I didn't
12:19fully commit, but, there, right back at you, come on, go right down, hey, there, come on,
12:43man, I have no idea how he would still be holding together, like that, he used to live,
12:52he must be injured or damaged or something, at least, it's not, he's actually not maneuvering
13:09really all that much right now, so maybe I did get him, sure I'm not, I mean, in trouble
13:16elsewhere,
13:17here,
13:24there,
13:29there,
13:37Now, I have to avoid doing what I was trying to get him to do, which is be dragged too
13:55far over enemy territory, hit by his arch, or attacked by enemies, so probably give him
14:07one more pass, and then head for home if he doesn't go down.
14:25Okay, now, I'm going too fast.
14:51There we go.
15:05The arch is coming up with me now.
15:12I think he's playing possum, I don't think he went in.
15:27Let's see if he crashed.
15:34I don't see him though, he's disappeared against the ground.
15:41I don't see him though, he's disappeared against the ground.
15:56I'm going to angle home here.
16:03I'm used to climbing, I don't know what happened to my wingman, I hope.
16:09It's okay.
16:10I'm going to get my gun changed again.
16:16I'm going down here.
16:21I'm going to click and see if I see that guy anywhere.
16:28I'm going to click and see if I can see that guy anywhere.
16:38Either him flying or him crashed, I don't see the dirt.
16:49Man, I feel like I got some good hits on that guy.
17:04First we'll go back and look at my hit percentage and it'll be 30% or something.
17:14Alright, well I think I'm going to probably pack it in here unless I am attacked along the way.
17:23Which reminds me of checking all around me.
17:31This is interesting, I'm coming in and I'm going to land and then there's a bunch of things on the line here.
17:38But they're actually facing east which is unusual, so they're actually facing sort of a crosswind here.
17:47So I'm going to land going to the east which is unusual.
17:51In previous versions they'd always land to the west regardless of what the windsock was indicating.
17:57The cows on the other hand, they just don't care.
18:07Of course no matter which way you come in, always trees.
18:32Let's go
18:44If they want they're nyttiening.
18:45About 1 a year old street quarry.
18:48About 2 a year old street quarry.
18:54I'm going to avoid everybody here at the end of the field, and then we'll go see what
19:20happened. Okay. Congratulations your claims. Seven machines landed. That's good. Let's see. So what
19:36actually happened? Everybody came back. So even my my wingman came back. They're giving me two air
19:43kills, which is one of the Fokers and the two seater. So what did I get about? It's about a
19:53quarter. That's not too bad. All right. Let's go. I'm kidding. That's terrible. Let's go get these
19:58written up here. All right. There you go. Get that written up. Done. Done. So yeah, that was a good
20:15flight for us. And we will have to wait and find out next time what's what happened there.
20:22Hopefully you enjoyed that. It was a nice little little flight and fight. Hopefully we'll see you
20:28next time. This is Rick Rawlings playing Wings Over Flanders Fields. Thanks for joining me. Take
20:32care out there. I will see you around.
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