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[bw_wolverine]

Getting off the plane list debate for a second:

Flew tonight during the Operation Mongoose mission and had an interesting encounter.

It was late so there were few people on the server and I was looking at the player list and noticed no Blue forces. I relaxed a bit (I was ove France at the time) since I figured no enemy fighters would be about.

Of course, it's right about this time that two 109s jump me from above. And me in my Mk Ia Spitfire.

Fortunately, they were terrible shots and wasted a lot of their ammo while I tried to get on their sixes. I got some bullets into one 109, but quickly after that my ailerons were cut.

Let me tell you, that's a long flight back to England using just your rudder and elevator. Not to mention the 109 that is still following me and pumping led into my tail. Luckily, he didn't manage to hurt anything else in my plane.

I even managed to land (used emergency landing gear co2) and would have saved the prop if it hadn't been for the fact that I came in without flaps (flaps would have made the speed too slow for me to control the roll with the rudder) and was speeding towards the hangars at the end of the runway. I had to break harder than I wanted and put the nose in the dirt. Watch out for flying deHavilland!

Home safe and sound, but an interesting lesson in never thinking that you're safe when you're over enemy territory.