Excalibur Squadron OOC 2: The Song Remains the Same

[Kouralia]

Good idea.

Next time I binge on the Mentalist, I'm calling that 'going for a remedial course in Criminal Psychology at California State University'.

Then you'll be pleased to hear that there's going to be another "Criminology and the Armed Forces" course, aka "NCIS: New Orleans".

I should be pleased to hear that, but LA was... *shrugs*

Good idea.

Next time I binge on the Mentalist

HI AUNT SUSAN
In other news, wrote about a thousand words today. My one-shot should finally be finished by tomorrow.

tomorrow?

u w0t m8

[Morrdh]

Battle of Britain Day folks.

Also the lady friend's birthday.

Consider this a place holder until I can spam in something from the movie...

Also, just seen someone make a horrible landing of a go around, looked to be trying to land without wheels the first time. Bumpy too, enough to make you weep.

...you can teach monkeys to fly better than that.

Had the sound of the roof tiles rattling to the glorious sound of a Merlin engine.

I dare you to top THAT my good sir!

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXyLbyzZPXw

[Goram]

Consider this a place holder until I can spam in something from the movie...

Also, just seen someone make a horrible landing of a go around, looked to be trying to land without wheels the first time. Bumpy too, enough to make you weep.

...you can teach monkeys to fly better than that.

Had the sound of the roof tiles rattling to the glorious sound of a Merlin engine.

I dare you to top THAT my good sir!

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXyLbyzZPXw

Challenge accepted.

When I get home, I shall pull some photos off my phone. And I will top that.

[Morrdh]

Saw the Spitfire again as I was heading back home from the city, the sneaky bugger flew right overhead.

Didn't have clipped wings and I swear its painted in a photo-recce blue colour and had invasion stripes, might have even been the Spit I saw at East Kirkby last month.

[Goram]

Saw the Spitfire again as I was heading back home from the city, the sneaky bugger flew right overhead.

Didn't have clipped wings and I swear its painted in a photo-recce blue colour and had invasion stripes, might have even been the Spit I saw at East Kirkby last month.

BBMF's PR. XIX.

[Morrdh]

Saw the Spitfire again as I was heading back home from the city, the sneaky bugger flew right overhead.

Didn't have clipped wings and I swear its painted in a photo-recce blue colour and had invasion stripes, might have even been the Spit I saw at East Kirkby last month.

BBMF's PR. XIX.

Doubt it a bit since there are a few PR Spits knocking around.

[Monfrox]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...

More sad news today, gents.

[Goram]

BBMF's PR. XIX.

Doubt it a bit since there are a few PR Spits knocking around.

Four airworthy PR Spits I can think of. One (PR.IX, Hanger 11 Collection) had stripes and has since been painted. This I am entirely sure of, as I saw it on Saturday. The only PR Spit with stripes is the BBMF's PR. XIX.

[The Two Jerseys]

Then you'll be pleased to hear that there's going to be another "Criminology and the Armed Forces" course, aka "NCIS: New Orleans".

I should be pleased to hear that, but LA was... *shrugs*

Yeah, NCIS:LA never impressed me either. It seems like they'll claim Navy jurisdiction over a case if a suspect/victim so much as watched a submarine movie or McHale's Navy at some point in their life.

On the bright side, NCIS:NO has Scott Bakula.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...

More sad news today, gents.

That's the third Great Escape cast member in as many months. What the actual hell?

[The Tiger Kingdom]

tomorrow?

u w0t m8

It's taking a long time, mainly because I have to write dialogue for an actual historical character (which I generally fucking hate - the exception is Churchill, because I can sort of ape his style and I can have fun doing it, but I concede I do it horribly).
What makes it even worse is that I have a clear idea of how he wrote - he was extraordinarily florid and vivid, a crazily skilled guy, in a way that would take me years to do justice, but I have very little idea of how he would talk.
So that makes things worse. I can write in little crutches and backdoors for myself to make excuses for my own failings, but it takes time regardless.

[Nouvelle Valcluse]

Saw the Spitfire again as I was heading back home from the city, the sneaky bugger flew right overhead.

Didn't have clipped wings and I swear its painted in a photo-recce blue colour and had invasion stripes, might have even been the Spit I saw at East Kirkby last month.

I hardly ever see Spitfire even though the company that restores them is based less than 40 miles away. Good news his hopefully they might bring the Mosquito over for next year's air show. Last year they had an Fw 190 present which was neat.

[Morrdh]

Saw the Spitfire again as I was heading back home from the city, the sneaky bugger flew right overhead.

Didn't have clipped wings and I swear its painted in a photo-recce blue colour and had invasion stripes, might have even been the Spit I saw at East Kirkby last month.

I hardly ever see Spitfire even though the company that restores them is based less than 40 miles away. Good news his hopefully they might bring the Mosquito over for next year's air show. Last year they had an Fw 190 present which was neat.

Yes, though theres a Mossie being restored in this country.

[Organized States]

What a horrible thing to go through.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Wrote another 1200 words for my one-shot and edited pretty intensely. Very, very close, now.
Who knew the postscript would be so long...so overheated...so dramatic?
That's not like me at all.

[Morrdh]

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_oK4p4Xdc

[Organized States]

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_oK4p4Xdc

HELLO AND WELCOME TO SPARTA!

[Monfrox]

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_oK4p4Xdc

nailed it/10

[Grenartia]

Presumably Samantha is flying the 190 - the best aircraft of it's day? You could just disengage and run, or turn and fight.

It's worth noting that this is a very, very, VERY early 190, so perhaps its dominance isn't quite as well-established as it would be later on.

So, basically like the early Mustang models. Back when it was still a British order, and when they gave it the shitty Allison engines.

ah alright alright, got it. Who is this Samantha woman anyways?

MIA, Female Pilot with Excalibur who somehow got a hold of a FW-190.

Basically, God. One does NOT fuck with Samantha.

Seriously, that operation is tailor-made for us.

Oh dear God, you had to drag that movie into it!

The only half good Michael Bay movie.

I actually liked the Doolittle scenes, they weren't that bad.

Full Length Movie! Full Length Movie!

I liked Armageddon better. Saying that as an aspiring aerospace engineer and astrophysicist.

I can, will, and have pointed out every scientific inaccuracy in that movie (like, seriously, ask my parents and my former next door neighbor). But dammit, its so bad its good! Its kind of like that Flash Gordon movie they made in the 80s. Once you look past the cheesiness and the implausibilities, its a good movie.

To this day I'm still pissed that it only had a limited release over here.

Was amazing.

Remain pissed, doctor's orders.

*has never heard of that movie*

Also, keep your eyes open for the model of a fucking F-86 Sabre in Doolittle's trophy case

Good God, Lemon!

To be completely and totally honest, short of a modern fighter, if you're going to have an anachronistic fighter in your WWII movie, you might as well go for broke and get something badass. Especially one descended from the best American fighter of the entire war, even if that fighter itself is still barely more than a prototype in British hands.

I mean, even War Thunder has the F-86. And Blazing Angels has the Twin Mustang as early as the Rabaul Raid, IIRC. Which is before you even get the P-51D in game. That's a major anachronism if ever there was one.

Don't you drag my boat into this.

The fact that I can even drag it at all is proof that is sucks.

Mon has obviously never been in a quality flatboat before.

Name: Maxime Bellaguer
Age: 24 (b. 23rd February 1917)
Rank: Sergeant (or equivalent of the Aviateur de première classe in the AdA)
Physical Description/Picture: Ici, mes amis.
Country of Origin: France
Flight/Flight Combat Experience (MANDATORY):
Accepted into the French Air Force for training in 1938.
Assigned to a fighter training unit in Chatres. Flew Bloch 123, Morane-Saulnier MS.406 and Curtiss Hawk 75 fighters between 1938 and 1940.
Assigned to Groupe de Chasse I/3 and flew Dewotine D.520 fighters. One confirmed kill and two probables.
Defected to the UK on the 25th of June 1940 after the armistice was signed.
Ground Combat Experience: None. Is trained in the use of pistols.
Specialties (air or ground - communications, demolitions, disguises, languages, etc.): Languages.
Weapons of Choice: MAS 1873 revolver
RP Experience: This is a puppet of Costa Fierro but here's an example.
Personal History/Bio (more than one line please):
Maxime Belaguer was born into a working class family in February 1917. His father was a fighter pilot in the nascent French Air Force and became a verified ace during the conflict. He was inspired by his love for aviation by his father but was sadly discouraged from following in his father's footsteps when his father died in a landing accident on the 13th of November 1918. His mother raised him by herself. Maxime was always considered to be a bit of an outsider to his friends. He was always distant, cynical, not interested in anything other than fulfilling his ambition to make his father proud. He became a mechanic, left home and got employment in a factory manufacturing gearboxes for Renault. In 1938, at the age of 21, Maxime enlisted with the French Air Force and was based in Chatres. He didn't tell his mother until the following year when he qualified as a fighter pilot. She gave him his father's revolver as a graduation present and accepted his graduation fatalistically. Since then, he has grown distant from his mother, even failing to tell her that he managed to survive the Battle for France in 1940 and was living in exile in the United Kingdom...

Costa, that's you? Shit.

ALSO, DAMMIT, THIBODEAUX HAS THE MONOPOLY ON BEING THE SQUADRON'S FRENCH-SPEAKING SERGEANT.

The internet suggests there is a bus service. If not, I'm sure a hotel concierge would be able to help out.

Back up? I've always taken SWAT and black SUV's to mean "come on in, we're open for business"

>Native of DC

1) Take the metro, cleanest in the world. I'm serious, we have the cleanest metro in the world. It's also fast, efficient, and rarely suffers breakdowns in comparison to other metros, despite the bitching of some people around here. There's even a Smithsonian stop, and most places you're never more than a few blocks from a stop.

2) Visit the NASM, National Air and Space Museum in downtown DC. Wicked cool.

3) For the love of god, do not, under any circumstances, do anything other than walk/drive past the white house. There's protesters daily.

4) DO NOT TAKE CHAIN BRIDGE. AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS.

*has been to DC twice*

1. I will confirm.

2. YES. YES. YES. ALL OF MY YES. The last time I went, I nearly had an aviationgasm. I took like, a shitton of pics while there.

3. Didn't see any when I went, at least as far as I can remember. At least none that were saying shitty shit. Walked up to the south lawn back when Shrub was leeching off the taxpayers there, about 2 years after 9/11, and saw the other side in 2011 when I went with the Southern Baptist school I was going to. Worst shit I heard was coming from my classmates (mostly racist shit), although we did see snipers on the rooftop. As far as protesters went, aside from some people trying to raise awareness of hunger and shit, didn't really see or hear much.

4. I have no clue. Must be a local thing.

Name: Maxime Bellaguer
Age: 24 (b. 23rd February 1917)
Rank: Sergeant (or equivalent of the Aviateur de première classe in the AdA)
Physical Description/Picture: Ici, mes amis.
Country of Origin: France
Flight/Flight Combat Experience (MANDATORY):
Accepted into the French Air Force for training in 1938.
Assigned to a fighter training unit in Chatres. Flew Bloch 123, Morane-Saulnier MS.406 and Curtiss Hawk 75 fighters between 1938 and 1940.
Assigned to Groupe de Chasse I/3 and flew Dewotine D.520 fighters. One confirmed kill and two probables.
Defected to the UK on the 25th of June 1940 after the armistice was signed.
Ground Combat Experience: None. Is trained in the use of pistols.
Specialties (air or ground - communications, demolitions, disguises, languages, etc.): Languages.
Weapons of Choice: MAS 1873 revolver
RP Experience: This is a puppet of Costa Fierro but here's an example.
Personal History/Bio (more than one line please):
Maxime Belaguer was born into a working class family in February 1917. His father was a fighter pilot in the nascent French Air Force and became a verified ace during the conflict. He was inspired by his love for aviation by his father but was sadly discouraged from following in his father's footsteps when his father died in a landing accident on the 13th of November 1918. His mother raised him by herself. Maxime was always considered to be a bit of an outsider to his friends. He was always distant, cynical, not interested in anything other than fulfilling his ambition to make his father proud. He became a mechanic, left home and got employment in a factory manufacturing gearboxes for Renault. In 1938, at the age of 21, Maxime enlisted with the French Air Force and was based in Chatres. He didn't tell his mother until the following year when he qualified as a fighter pilot. She gave him his father's revolver as a graduation present and accepted his graduation fatalistically. Since then, he has grown distant from his mother, even failing to tell her that he managed to survive the Battle for France in 1940 and was living in exile in the United Kingdom...

IIRC, you app'd a very, very long time ago as well - like "the week ES started"-ago.
Accepted.

Driving up to Uni tomorrow, so sorry, but possibly no post from me this weekend. ;-;

To make up for it, I watched the second half of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, TK, and it really was better than the first.

Much better.

That's what I keep hearing, but I'm already committed to watching nothing but Poirot.

And come on, the rest of you, quit being inactive with reasons. I want more posts before I move anything forward.

Hey man, sorry, but aside from some magical mystery bug that allowed me to use Skype (honestly, I have no clue how I managed to be able to keep in touch on Skype, other than some sort of bug), I've been internetless for the last 5 days.

I became more involved with NSG shit.

Literally the same exact reason I didn't app when ES first launched.

And GOram, you have fun in DC. Beware the humidity.

Speaking as somebody who is acclimated to the subtropical jungle that is Louisiana, both times I went to DC, even I was surprised by the heat and humidity. Not overtaken, mind you, but surprised nonetheless.

Good idea.

Next time I binge on the Mentalist, I'm calling that 'going for a remedial course in Criminal Psychology at California State University'.

Then you'll be pleased to hear that there's going to be another "Criminology and the Armed Forces" course, aka "NCIS: New Orleans".

WOOOOO NEW ORLEANS WOOOO SCOTT BAKULA WOOOOOOO

Then you'll be pleased to hear that there's going to be another "Criminology and the Armed Forces" course, aka "NCIS: New Orleans".

I should be pleased to hear that, but LA was... *shrugs*

I assure you New Orleans will be much, much better than Los Angeles, by pure virtue of the fact that its SET IN FUCKING NEW ORLEANS.

NOLA is everything LA wishes it could be. And then some.

I should be pleased to hear that, but LA was... *shrugs*

Yeah, NCIS:LA never impressed me either. It seems like they'll claim Navy jurisdiction over a case if a suspect/victim so much as watched a submarine movie or McHale's Navy at some point in their life.

On the bright side, NCIS:NO has Scott Bakula.

If the Louisianian characters (an awful lot, surprisingly, and he can nail the accent) he played in QL are any indication, his character in NCIS:NOLA (geddit right, dammit) will be fairly decent. He always seems to do good with characters from Louisiana.

Speaking of NOLA, it seems that with my visit down there last week, my 4 year long exile from my homeland may be coming to a close. My cousin (who I came out to, and she was amazingly supportive) offered to let me live with her. The only stumbling blocks seem to be how to get down there. Short of waiting until mom takes another trip down there again. But dammit, I WILL return, even if I have to jump into the Cumberland and swim.

New Orleans: Forever proud, ready, and willing to swim home.

[The Two Jerseys]

Spent the last 2 hours rewriting 1.5 upcoming one-shots.

But face it, why rush PIVOTAL GAME-CHANGING SCENE when it's so much better having STUNNING M. NIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG PLOT TWIST instead?

[United Kingdom of Poland]

Spent the last 2 hours rewriting 1.5 upcoming one-shots.

But face it, why rush PIVOTAL GAME-CHANGING SCENE when it's so much better having STUNNING M. NIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG PLOT TWIST instead?

you mean M. Night Shamala...........

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Spent the last 2 hours rewriting 1.5 upcoming one-shots.

But face it, why rush PIVOTAL GAME-CHANGING SCENE when it's so much better having STUNNING M. NIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG PLOT TWIST instead?

Who will post their one-shots first?!
It's a race now, boy!

[The Two Jerseys]

Spent the last 2 hours rewriting 1.5 upcoming one-shots.

But face it, why rush PIVOTAL GAME-CHANGING SCENE when it's so much better having STUNNING M. NIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG PLOT TWIST instead?

Who will post their one-shots first?!
It's a race now, boy!

You will.
Mine actually fit into the TIGGA KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT plotline.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Who will post their one-shots first?!
It's a race now, boy!

You will.
Mine actually fit into the TIGGA KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT plotline.

NUDGE NUDGE

[Grenartia]

Spent the last 2 hours rewriting 1.5 upcoming one-shots.

But face it, why rush PIVOTAL GAME-CHANGING SCENE when it's so much better having STUNNING M. NIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG PLOT TWIST instead?

I think I have a pic for nearly every occasion.

[Monfrox]

Spent the last 2 hours rewriting 1.5 upcoming one-shots.

But face it, why rush PIVOTAL GAME-CHANGING SCENE when it's so much better having STUNNING M. NIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG PLOT TWIST instead?

I think I have a pic for nearly every occasion.

Get on my level.