00:00Hello everybody it's Rick Rawlings. Welcome to another edition of Let's Play
00:10Wings Over Flanders Fields. We've got the last hurrah going on here. 56th Squadron,
00:16Major Rick Rawlings, working our way through 1918. 59 missions in the bag.
00:23Let's get another one up and running here. Bring you back once the ground crew prepares our flight.
00:35So we'll pop back here for just a second. James McCudden has died and he crashed. So he must
00:43have been, I guess he was out of the squadron for a bit there. Oh he was number 60 squadron,
00:48so he got transferred to number 60 squadron. Okay so McCudden has died. That leaves the
00:53rest of us just to carry on. Okay so we're doing a straight up patrol behind enemy front lines,
00:59which is just to my liking. Heading over to Cappy. Let's go zoom, zoom it in. Make our usual waypoint
01:11adjustments here. 1,000 feet holy cow. Let's go 1.1. Move him over a bit. And then we'll make this one.
01:24Circle up, go over a bit. And we'll make that a little bit more of a gradual climb here. So we'll go down like
01:368,000 feet. And then we can climb on the way to the front. Head over deep into enemy territory. Let's take a look at our...
01:46Okay. Should be fine. Off to the field.
01:54Alright, here we are on the field. This weird crystallization thing going on in the windshield all of a sudden.
02:03Which I haven't had before. Don't know except for that. But...
02:07Let's go in here and see if something changes.
02:13That is weird. What is going on here? Looks like it's all covered with water, but...
02:24It's not raining.
02:28Alright, it's kind of a pain to go back and redo a whole mission.
02:57Like restore your pilot and everything. So I'm going to roll with this weird effect. Maybe it'll...
03:04Maybe it'll go away.
03:06But we're going to head off to the patrol area and see what happens.
03:11Alright, so I'm going to bring you back here. I've developed a...
03:17Sort of mechanical breakdown of my aircraft.
03:22Which I don't think is windscreen related.
03:29So we're going to...
03:32Try to find a place to land here.
03:37Okay.
03:47Air...
03:48Airfield's back this way.
03:50This is a question of if my engine will hold out.
03:54Oh, there's one right there.
04:08Almost a straight shot in if I can...
04:13Make it work. So the secret is to...
04:15I don't know what the secret is. I don't think I know any secrets.
04:18But the idea generally is to stay high.
04:21Make it to the airfield and then spiral down.
04:24So if your engine cuts out...
04:28Like it sounds like it's about to.
04:31You have...
04:32You have time to get down.
04:37I don't...
04:38Not any...
04:39Doesn't really have any danger of a fire starting.
04:40So...
04:41Shed my altitude slowly.
04:43I'm pretty sure I could...
04:46There is right there.
04:47I'm pretty sure I could glide in from here if I had to.
04:52I think that's an airfield, but...
04:58There we are.
04:59I was going to say the hangers hadn't quite rendered in yet, but yes.
05:15Looks good though.
05:16Look at those...
05:17See the rivers off in the distance looking riverish rather than just...
05:21Weird blue smudges.
05:24Verizon's pushed way back there.
05:26Even without a cloud in the sky...
05:27Well...
05:28A cloud in the sky and the way I was headed.
05:30They gradiated...
05:32Um...
05:33Blue sky looks good.
05:35A lot of improvements the last couple updates.
05:42And it's nice that they do have these random engine failures.
05:45Random windscreen failures.
05:47Look I got two!
05:49Embarrassment of riches here.
05:51I got two airfields I can decide to go for.
05:54Spiral down between them and see which one has less trees.
05:59Look at that guy.
06:00He has less trees on the approach.
06:02All right, I'll do some...
06:17Some of the spiraling down here probably without you and then bring you back.
06:24All right, we gotta be careful here.
06:26I don't wanna...
06:27Buy the farm the same day McCudden did.
06:31He either...
06:32Reports are a little bit...
06:34I've read a couple different reports.
06:35So he either died when his...
06:37He took off and then his engine died.
06:39And he tried to come around and land at the same base.
06:43Which...
06:44Is not advised to do.
06:45You're supposed to just kinda head out.
06:47Straight out.
06:48So you don't stall and crash.
06:49Which is...
06:50One of the reports of what happened.
06:52The other one was that he was trying to do a maneuver.
06:55And lost control and...
06:57And crashed on that maneuver.
06:58Which is unfortunate.
06:59He's one of the top British scoring aces.
07:01Certainly, uh...
07:02One of the most thoughtful...
07:04Um...
07:05Aces in terms of analyzing.
07:07You know, combat.
07:08He was very meticulous in his...
07:10Planes and his guns.
07:13It was a great loss.
07:17To the Royal Air Force.
07:20See if we can get down here.
07:21Safely.
07:22No...
07:24Cut.
07:26Alright.
07:27Here we are back at the debrief here.
07:28This is the aircraft destroyed.
07:29The sustained damage from the bombers.
07:31A little blood bomb.
07:32Details happened.
07:34Forced to land.
07:36Captured.
07:37Captured.
07:38Captured.
07:39Holy cow.
07:40Okay.
07:41Okay.
07:42Alright.
07:43Well.
07:44We got one enemy down.
07:46Two guys captured, I guess.
07:48That was a...
07:49Not a great...
07:50Not a great flight for the 56th Squadron.
08:00Have to get another plane pulled up and painted.
08:03Uh...
08:04But at any rate, it's...
08:06Still alive for another day of the flight.
08:08We've got, uh...
08:10Heading off through July of 1918.
08:13Those random failures.
08:16They don't...
08:17I haven't had them very often.
08:18Which is kind of nice.
08:19But they are there.
08:20So it is a...
08:21And that is something that definitely happened.
08:22So we'll take that one.
08:24And, uh...
08:25Hopefully you enjoyed this little...
08:26Little short trip here.
08:27Hopefully be back next time.
08:29Thanks for joining.
08:30This is Rick Rawlings.
08:31Take care out there.
08:32I'll see you the next time I play Wings Over Flanders Fields.
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