DC-4

[SSI01]

I may have a little time to invest in this jaunt if you folks can tell me how to get to that server.


A C-46 looks like it might be a proper addition to the stable.

[Willy]

The ip is 72.233.79.242

We try to meet up at about 9pm Central and takeoff is usually about a half hour or so later.

[Willy]

We left Crystal River and headed south to Miami (KMIA). Interesting flight with a sideshow provided by some guy we didn't know who proceeded to tell us all we never cared to know about hurricane hunting and the only aircraft he said could do the job. Sometimes you meet the strangest people on multiplayer.

Any we've got our plan fleshed out a bit more. This is going to be fun.

[SSI01]

The ip is 72.233.79.242

We try to meet up at about 9pm Central and takeoff is usually about a half hour or so later.

Gee guys, I used to be a night owl but since this surgery I'm out of it by 10PM.

Have a great series of flights!

[Willy]

We've got people in almost every timezone and 9 Central is a good compromise.

[Willy]

We took off for the Bahamas, going by Grand Bahamas for a tower buzz (but first I had to do a dry run dive bombing on the ships in the harbor), and then on to Nassau. Didn't get the screenshot I wanted during the dive bombing, but there's always next time. It gets kind of busy when you're screaming towards earth, trying to stay on target, trying not to pull out too early and not too late and get screenshots all at the same time.

[Taco]

Test: Haven't been able to upload for a couple of days

[SSI01]

We've got people in almost every timezone and 9 Central is a good compromise.

No sweat - in a little while I should be able to pick up my routine and then join you.

[Willy]

We're still mucking about the Bahamas before meeting up at Key West for the mission.

[Taco]

Well hi again, A very nice flight last evening along the islands of the Bahamas. Got a chance, again, to buzz a local tower, and practice my skip bombing tactic before going onto Key West. For some reason Uncle Sam gets a little upset about buzzing airport towers, so can't practice there.

[Moses03]

Few shots from the last couple of days. We are going to buzz Castro's old palace next.

[Willy]

Fun flight to Key West from the Bahamas. Right after we left, we ran into a line of thunderstorms which shook things up pretty good, so I climbed up higher than normal to try and go over them. Once we got to the keys, I was going to do a "dive buzz" on the tower at NAS Key West, but when I flipped over and nosed down, I lost sight of all the buildings and did a lot of twisting and turning on the way down trying to reacquire the target. Never did see them again until I pulled out of the dive at about 400ft above the ground. Then it was on to Key West Intl to get ready for tomorrow's fun.

Pics are in reverse order...

[Taco]

A little rough weather, and by george, we did get bounced around some what, but the old B-26 brought us thru. We was kind of watching, and hopping, that we would come up upon some drug running submarines, but didn't see a dogone one. Maybe we couldn't do a heck of a lot of damage to them, but those empty beer bottles sounds like big bombs coming down, and more than likely would have scared the you know what out of them.

[PRB]

During the flight up to Key West, I managed to get a shot of Willy's dive bombing run on the NAS. I'd hoped to be a bit closer when he pushed over, but still a cool shot!

[Willy]

Well that was a fun and interesting flight. We left Key West and flew to Havana. I climbed up to over 12,000 feet to get a good dive in. I selected a fort at the mouth of the harbor as a target for "dive bombing" and nosed over to head down. Got a real good run in on that one although if I had got just a couple of feet lower I'd have gotten tangled up in some telephone wires in the pull out.

I flew low over the city to the airport which I proceeded to buzz. We formed back up and proceed on at our normal cruise altitude towards Cancun for a little R&R. But before we got out of Cuba, MM and Taco disappeared. I'm hoping those Cuban AA gunners didn't get them. I flew on to Cancun in the dusk and have got their first round of drinks waiting on them.

Pics are in backwards order again.