Excalibur Squadron OOC Thread

[The balkens]

Red flag to me was a international flying circus.

Flankers from India, Mir-2000s from France.....ah...to be among them again....

[Calizorinstan]

Did you fly against the German F-4s, the ICE models? Those were the coolest of the foreign airplanes I thought.

[The balkens]

Did you fly against the German F-4s, the ICE models? Those were the coolest of the foreign airplanes I thought.

Yeah, the pilot of one of them was a son of one of my fathers friends.
When I told him who my dad was, he told his group about me and we all became friends.

I was shot down twice....

Dont fuck with germanys finest. You will die...

[Monfrox]

So Balk's an actual fighter pilot?

[The balkens]

So Balk's an actual fighter pilot?

Was. Monfrox.

I quit In 09 for personal reasons, I wanted to expand my education so I enrolled to notre dame.

[Monfrox]

So Balk's an actual fighter pilot?

Was. Monfrox.

I quit In 09 for personal reasons, I wanted to expand my education so I enrolled to notre dame.

What was it like?

*eyes shine and fill with child-like wonderment*

[The balkens]

Well.......

It's freedom. Pure and simple, flying with the 65th was an honor.

And I learned what pulling Gs felt like.

It's like a instant curtain falling on your eyes. Scary at first, but your training kicks in.

[Monfrox]

Ooooooo~. I thought about being a fighter pilot. I also thought about being an Officer for AF SF. Or maybe an aerial gunner, or Security Forces. I also thought about joining the Army and maybe being a Helicopter Pilot like I've always wanted.

[Calizorinstan]

I'm hoping to get my pilot's license this year...

So I figured the ICE model F-4s are still a force to be reckoned with. Anybody hear the crazy rumor that the Turks were going to give the Albanians F-4s and F-16s???

[Pragia]

If I ever joined the military... Probably navy, Crusiers/destroyers as an engineer (any link to job specs on that?)

[The balkens]

Army aviation is a good thing.

And cal....

Always assume rumors are false rather them assume they are true...

[Calizorinstan]

Army aviation is a good thing.

And cal....

Always assume rumors are false rather them assume they are true...

That's probably good advice.. I am always skeptical towards rumors. Did you ever refuel off the CA ANG tankers per chance? You could have, they switched to Predators in 08..

[The balkens]

I actually had a fear of air refueling.

Like in air force one.......

"ok LT zimmermann...wait...too fast too fuckin fast!!! SHIT!!"

But I refueled from a CA ANG tanker only once.

The rest was via Nevada ANG I think...

[Calizorinstan]

Nevada ANG had C-130s, I think... Anyways, I got to sit in a German F-4F at Reno 2004. The pilot was from JG-71..

[The balkens]

*spews out vodka*

HOLY SHIT! Richthofen!?

The same squad that was commanded by the blond devil?!
Erich Hartmann!?

[Calizorinstan]

Yes, that squadron. I got to be good buddies with him, and visited JG-71 at Wittmund, saw their history room, briefing room, and flew in their F-4 sim.. Yeah, that group.

[The Two Jerseys]

The BBC News website had an article on Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown today, here's the link if anyone wants to read it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22254048

[Calizorinstan]

What a fascinating career the man has had!

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Hey guys,
So my TA just sent me a message saying the paper I thought I would have to work all night on is getting pushed back! YAY!
So expect an IC post tonight!

And lemme just say (to catch up) I'm very impressed with all the Air Force stories and people - I forgot we had actual fighter pilots (well, ex-fighter pilots anyway) in here. You guys rock.
Me, I'm just a scrawny teenager with glasses, so I'm right out on that score. I have friends in Air Force ROTC, though,

*spews out vodka*

HOLY SHIT! Richthofen!?

The same squad that was commanded by the blond devil?!
Erich Hartmann!?

I might have to have us meet Hartmann at some point.
Dude's kill record is ludicrous, even if a lot of it was gotten through ambushing outdated Soviet planes and the like.

Name: Thomas Steele
Age: 26
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Physical Description/Picture: (will do tonight)
Country of Origin: Australia
Flight/Flight Combat Experience : 4 sorties
Ground Combat Experience: near none (except for basic GI training
Specialties (air or ground - communications, demolitions, disguises, languages, etc.): Air to ground, low altitude fighting
RP Experience: seasoned, I've been in more than a dozen
Personal History/Bio (more than one line please): Thomas was born in Sydney, Australia in 1913, his father serving for Britain in the Great War, and losing his life in doing so. thomas was raised by his mother, and was constantly studying the progressively more interesting aircraft landing and taking off at the local airport. He came out of Sydney University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and decided to follow his fathers steps and joined the Australian Army. He didn't like the ground forces and applied for a transfer to the RAAF. Thomas served in the RAAF for 3 years before the war, only to be transferred to Excaliber when war broke out in Europe.

I'll have an IC post up in a couple hours, is a Mk1 revised hurricane allowed.

I'd hold your horses until you're actually accepted.
First, I see you got the rank issue settled - that's good.
Second, I'd like to see some specific links to actual RPs. I'm sure you've been in a lot, but I want to see what you're specifically doing too.
Third, any possibility of a little more development as to those "four sorties"? I mean, that could mean anything. I'm a sucker for detail.

When that stuff gets cleared up, you're in.

[Calizorinstan]

My dad met and talked to Hartmann, said he was very nice and open about his experiences during the war.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

My dad met and talked to Hartmann, said he was very nice and open about his experiences during the war.

He seemed like a pretty cool guy, considering all the horrible stuff he went through. I mean, his son was born and died while he was in the camps. That's gut-wrenching.
It was a shitty thing that happened to him postwar, but it seems silly how far it went - if he was offered a post in the East German Air Force while he was in Siberia, couldn't he have just accepted and then maybe stolen an aircraft and defected?
I mean, it's risky, but so's consigning yourself to staying in a labor camp for a decade.

[Monfrox]

I hate typing essays...kill me.....kill me now.....I can't fucking do this anymooooooore~!!!!!

[Morrdh]

I actually had a fear of air refueling.

Like in air force one.......

"ok LT zimmermann...wait...too fast too fuckin fast!!! SHIT!!"

But I refueled from a CA ANG tanker only once.

The rest was via Nevada ANG I think...

I've heard some pretty interesting comments from RAF crews on air refuelling.

"Arranging mid-air collisions between aircraft."

"Two insects mating in flight."

"Shoving wet spaghetti up a cat's backside."

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Speaking of refueling, you guys should watch The Starfighters - one of the worst movies ever made, basically a Lockheed propaganda commercial stretched out to a feature-length film. In lieu of action, characters, writing, effects, story, or literally anything, they have about half an hour (of an 80-minute film, mind) of stock footage of F-104s midair refueling. You can find it on youtube, along with a mocked version of it done by Mystery Science theater 3000.
So many potential refueling-based innuendos.

Anyway, new post up, and yes, it's true - halfway through, I decided to embark on my long-planned project to begin to refer to my chars by their FIRST NAMES!
What a radical shift!

[Morrdh]

Malta hey?

Nice piece of barren rock to spend two weeks with a stomach bug.

Dec 1940 seems to have been the 'eye of the storm' during the Siege of Malta, though I have a book cover gives some details on the Maltese airfields during this time which I'll post up.