obvert
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Joined: 1/17/2011 From: PDX (and now) London, UK Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe I have trained a squadron of Jakes up on naval bombing, fly them to Ocean Island which has no runway, and will attempt to deliver a surprise to a small 2 ship task force. I don't think these are Fletchers, but you never know. Lots of search up... Moved almost 400 fighters into the Raheng triangle of bases where the Allies spotted some fighters yesterday. Hopefully, he will try a repeat of Chiang Myi and I can get a little more favorable results thru quantity. Jakes for me were the everything plane in the game against Jocke. I've not used them quite as much yet in my second game, but I haven't had as much opportunity yet either. They are an ASW plane, a search plane on land and sea, night and day, and they performed recon by attacking naval units at distance even if they weren't successful. As I had bases behind lines eventually, their LR transfer ability and decent payload allowed them to be used really well, as Jocke mentioned, against transports and tankers. They're not too successful hitting combat ships, but can let you know what's there. The Norm is good too, and I had hopes for the Seiran, but it wasn't as successful in spite of having a much better payload of a torp or two x 250kg bombs. Finally, all work well as kamis against transports. I visited the Udvar-Hazy annex of the air and space museum on Monday. The Seiran is a really sleek plane. Wish it was worth something here. The F4U-1D is way bigger than I thought it would be, too. Intellectually, I knew it was bigger than a Hellcat (also on display), but seeing it in person was something else. Also always thought that the P-38 was an enormous plane, and it's big (for a fighter), but it's displayed entirely underneath just a section of the port wing of the Enola Gay. Was a cool visit, but I didn't get too many pictures. I think I did grab pictures of all the IJNAF/IJAAF planes that were there, though. They have a Kikka in the restoration hangar, as well as a Sikhorsky float plane that searched for KB on December 7. And a B-26 named "Flak Bait" . Also, I know you're building the Shusei, right? Or will be. Found out on that visit that Germany built a 10-minute rocket plane that looked pretty much identical, turns out the Shusei is a licensed copy of the Me-163 Komet. Jealous!! Here at Hendon they had the Ki-100-I out for a while when i first moved here! I have a pic somewhere I'll try to find. Awesome to see that plane!
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