Cdr. John Dayton orders low fuel landing drills

[THECCRICH]

1. Cdr. John Dayton orders low fuel landing drills
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2. The 2 section formation slows for Jenkins to close it up
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3. Ltjg. Pete Jenkins had been the last to take off
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4. The flight is ordered into landing configuration (Pete 1st)
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5. Pete pegs his landing on the 2nd attempt
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6. Pete could see that Colin was waived off for his 2nd attempt
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7. Lt. Hank Renault lands shortly after Colin's miss
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8. Ltjg. Colin Duffy has missed 2 with fuel for only 1 more attempt
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9. Pete is lowered to the hangar deck below
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10. Dayton sets his 1st and last approach (FUEL); and is worried for Colin
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11. After landing, Dayton signaled the ground crew to push him port
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12. This one was going to be tight because of Colin
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13. at least Colin caught the hook this time
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14. but barely missed Dayton's wing tip in the process
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15. As Colin stopped, he looked to a smiling Dayton
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16. The XO was waiting for Dayton and ordered him to the bridge
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17. All aircraft on deck without a scratch (Pete below deck)
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18. The men never knew the complete and utter reprimand/chewing Dayton took for Colin that day
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[Blackronin]

Awesome!
I want that carrier!
Where did you find it?
The plane colors is amazing!
REP!

[THECCRICH]

Super thank you Blackronin... :)

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2141

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2041

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2139

Thank you again sir :salute:

[Blackronin]

No need to thanks, Chris.
They are awesome.

Do you have more?

Japanese?

[THECCRICH]

I upload what I have access to this weekend sir...

[Blackronin]

I upload what I have access to this weekend sir...

Thanks Chris!
You are awesome.

[milcoll73]

cdr dayton? a buckeye is he?

[THECCRICH]

Blackronin,

I only have the US Taffy 3 Fleet done currently.

The only 3 ships were the Escort Carrier, Fletcher Class, and Butler Class (URL below)

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2140

I was preparing to run a Kamikaze Solo game, so I only got as far as Taffy 3.

I have prepped the top down images for the Japanese Yamamoto task force but don't have anything scaled yet.

The AAR from above was back in Nov 2015 and I have not been doing the ships but instead, concentrating on getting all of my landing gears done before the new aircraft come out.

Sorry, I though I was further along with the Japanese than I really am.

Here is the template I use for positioning the ships of Taffy 3, and I had scaled smaller versions of each ship to simulate altitude.

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and

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2205

Oh, and milcoll73, I believe the (fictional character) Dayton is a buckeye, but why do you say that..? That is interesting because I always envisioned him as that kind of guy/from that region..?

He surfaced in the 2nd part of the ensigns challenge I did as an AAR (early 2015), I don't know if you saw that one...

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?21270-The-Ensign-s-Challenge-(Part-2)

and

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?21257-The-Ensign-s-Challenge


Sorry about the ships Blackronin (I do have CVE 73 and CVE 57, but started going generic/no numbers)

Please let me know if you want me to upload the 73 pictured and/or 53:)

[Blackronin]

Thanks for your reply, Chris.

Generic is good with me.
I would like to see in all those scales a Japanese destroyer, a transport (American and Japanese) and the Carrier Ryūjō.
It would help my campaign a lot.

[THECCRICH]

Generic is good with me.
I would like to see in all those scales a Japanese destroyer, a transport (American and Japanese) and the Carrier Ryūjō.
It would help my campaign a lot.

You just solved a problem I was having, I really wanted to make a smaller Japanese carrier than the Soryu...

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1682

I think you just gave me my next... The Ryūjō.

You also gave a great idea with the transports...

I am leaning on Liberty type ships, or were you looking at the later war type transports..?

Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me, but picture the living room floor battle between the US and Japanese escort carrier groups...

[Blackronin]

Thanks Chris!

This will be awesome.
Just to be sure I lost nothing, you only made the 5th part of the Soryu?

The Liberty ships are perfect.
And a Japanese transport will also work.

Oh I can picture a battle like that very well indeed. ;)

[THECCRICH]

Blackronin,

Check out the Files/World War II section and you will see the full 5 sections of Soryu plus a USS Ranger Carrier.

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=7

If you print Soryu, you will notice how small the sections images are.
I recommend printing from the Bitmap versions (downloaded) for each image, fill the page with the image on the printed page; and as a result, the full page sections when cut out and taped together (from the back) will equal the 1/200 scale image.

I use a combination of scaled internet images, and top down line drawings filled in with color and shading to produce the ships. The destroyers for the Japanese just need to be scaled, but the liberty/Japanese cargo and small carrier ships have to be created (looking forward to it :) though).

I'm not sure when I will be done, I'm going to guess 2 months...

But scenarios involving protection and attack on shipping lanes would be so fun...

Great ideas Blackronin,

[Blackronin]

Found them, thanks!

It will be fun, and two months is perfectly okay.

[THECCRICH]

It begins...

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[Blackronin]

I just can say: Cool!

[Teaticket]

Great work Chris. Keep at it when you can, we'll use whatever you make whenever they get done.

[THECCRICH]

I was going to start a new post for the status of each ship (if interested :)).

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?24999-Liberty-Ship-Contstruction-Yard&p=402638#post402638

Really fun project so far... I may have stayed up a little to late though (LOL).

195224

[Blackronin]

Really, really cool.
Please do!

[THECCRICH]

Thank you Blackronin...
Awesome Idea of yours sir... :salute:

[Teaticket]

I think staying up past bedtime is what a lot of us here do! Links to your ships here will be great, thanks.

[THECCRICH]

Thank you Teaticket,

I have all of the completed projects uploaded to the 3 existing pages of the WWII File section:

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=7

I have some Japanese landing cards (Mod related) that I have yet to upload, but short of that all of my mods and images are uploaded.

Thank you for asking about them,
Chris

[Mike George]

Very nicely done.

[THECCRICH]

Mike,

Thank you for checking out the AAR...