Derby Worlds Saturday 7th October Game 4

The last game of the day pitted a Hannover two-seater and two Albatros D.v's against three Sopwith Camels. We were able to include more spectators as players in this game.

JohnBiggles was flying the Hannover and Naharaht this Camel.
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The other participants.
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To save time, as the planes were so far apart to begin with, all three cards in the first turn were played together. JohnBiggles' Hannover pilot was then able to shoot at a Camel but Naharaht's Camel came in for a beam attack on the Hannover and its observer could not turn his gun far enough round to shoot back. An Albatros was also closing in and exchanged fire with the Camel.
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The third Camel entered a cloud and so the second Albatros could not shoot at it.
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JohnBiggles' pilot's gun jammed as did Naharaht's Camel's guns in these exchanges of fire.

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The second Camel turned right and avoided the oncoming Albatros. The third Camel emerged from the cloud and exchanged shots with the second Albatros; with the result that smoke started pouring from the Camel's engine.
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Naharaht flew behind the Hannover, so close to the Albatros that its pilot was too busy avoiding a collision to fire. However the Hannover's observer opened up at close range.
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Meanwhile the second Camel and Second Albatros flew towards each other and fired. The smoking Camel headed back towards the cloud for safety.

Naharaht's Camel flew straight forward. JohnBiggles' Hannover turned left to fly parallel to the Camel. The Albatros performed an Immelmann turn.
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The second Albatros turned right. The second Camel performed an Immelmann turn. The smoking Camel turned right and flew into the cloud.
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JohnBiggles' Hannover and Naharaht's Camel flew straight forward on parallel courses. The green and blue Albatros and the second Camel flew towards each other and opened fire. The brown and black Albatros turned left.
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The smoking Camel flew forward inside the cloud.
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Thank you very nice pictures.

The smoking Camel performed an Immelmann turn. Naharaht turned his Camel right and JohnBiggles turned his Hannover left. They nearly collided. The Camel with four white bars turned right and attacked the brown and black Albatros, which had turned left. The green and blue Albatros flew straight on.
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Naharaht turned his Camel right and caught a burst at short range from JohnBiggles' observer. The blue circle Camel ceased smoking and entered the cloud. The green and blue Albatros turned towards the cloud. The Camel with the four bars turned right and the brown and black Albatros flew straight on.
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Naharaht turned slightly to the right and went head to head with the brown and black Albatros, which had flown straight ahead. Both planes exploded! JohnBiggles' Hannover pilot, who had Immelmann turned, watched the carnage. As the two doomed pilots fell to earth in the wreckage of their planes, they possibly contemplated their fates in the afterlife but perhaps drew some comfort from the fact that they had 'evened their score with the enemy'.
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Meanwhile the blue circle Camel had reached the further edge of the cloud, whilst the Camel with four bars turned right and got off some shots at long range at the green and blue Albatros, which had flown straight ahead.
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Those shots finished off the green and blue Albatros. The four stripe Camel and Hannover both flew straight forward and the Camel with the blue circles turned right.

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JohnBiggles' Hannover and the blue circle Camel both turned right whilst the four stripe Camel performed an Immelmann turn.
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JohnBiggles' Hannover flew straight ahead, whilst the blue circle Camel turned slightly to the right to attack it from the beam.
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The blue circle Camel and JohnBiggles' Hannover both turned right and collided. The Four stripe Camel flew forward to get back into the action.
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The blue circle Camel turned right and flew into the cloud, whilst JohnBiggles' Hannover turned left in pursuit. The four bars Camel moved off to the right.

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All the planes flew straight forward.
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The four bars Camel turned left, whilst the other planes continued flying straight forward.
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Players and spectators.
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The blue circle Camel and the Hannover both turned right. JohnBiggles fired at the Camel.
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The four bars CAmel prepared to turn right.
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The blue circle Camel and Hannover both continued to turn right.
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The four bars Camel did another right turn.
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The blue circle Camel turned right whilst the Hannover flew straight on.
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The four stripe Camel turned right again.
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The blue circle Camel flew straight on. The Hannover turned right in pursuit. The four stripe Camel turned left.
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The four stripe Camel turned right. The blue circle Camel turned left into the arc of fire of the Hannover, which had turned right.
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The blue circle Camel flew straight ahead, whilst the Hannover turned left allowing the pilot to fire at the Camel and shoot it down.
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The Hannover flew straight on allowing the remaining Camel to close in.
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The Camel flew straight ahead but the Hannover turned left allowing its observer to shoot at the Camel.
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The Camel turned right and flew through the cloud, whilst the Hannover turned left in pursuit.
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The Camel turned right and the Hannover turned left.

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The Camel turned right into the cloud whilst the Hannover also turned right.

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The Camel flew through the cloud. The Hannover stalled.
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Both planes turned right.
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To expedite matters, a sudden gust of wind, known locally as the Boney10, sprang up and blew the cloud away. :)

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The combatants turned towards each other and opened fire.
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As can easily happen when planes attack head-to-head a collision resulted.
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However, both planes survived and flew straight on in their respective directions.
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The Camel turned left and the Hannover performed an Immelman turn so that its pilot could fire at the Camel.
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The Camel turned left twice and the Hannover performed a straight and then turned right. Its observer was now in range.
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The Camel flew straight on whilst the Hannover now turned left.
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Both planes turned once again towards each other.
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What will be the conclusion?

Both planes turned slightly to the left.
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The planes flew forward,
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They both turned to go head-to-head again, fired
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and flew past each other. The Hannover's observer shot at the Camel.
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The Hannover flew straight on and the Camel turned right.
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The Camel continued turning right and the Hannover turned left.
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The Hannover continued turning left and the Camel continued turning right with the result that neither could shoot at the other.
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Both flew straight forward. The Hannover's observer shot at the Camel.
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The Hannover performed an Immelmann turn and flew straight back. The Camel performed two right turns.
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The Hannover turned left to give its observer a shot. The Camel turned right and fired.
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The Hannover turned left again and the Camel flew straight on with a large yaw to the right. Both fired again.
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The Camel did enough damage to bring the Hannover down.
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The Hannover crashed.
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Most of the shots fired at the Camel were misses.
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The Entente had won the final encounter of the day.

During the day JohnBiggles had shown himself to be an excellent pilot of German two-seater planes. An encounter between him and Hedeby flying a Bristol Fighter might be interesting to watch.


The End.

He's more slippery than a slippery thing that's slippery ! The W deck of the Hannover does help though.