Wright Flight October 3rd 2020 AAR

**camelbeagle** · 10-03-2020 21:04

Had a great day. We got three really good games in.

First was Austrians vs Italians. The Italians had 4 Hanriot HD1. The Austrians had 2 Phonix DI, a Phonix CI and a Hansa Brandenburg W18.

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The dogfight started quickly

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The first victory!

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The Austrians swarm the next target!

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Another Italian in trouble!

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The last Italian decided he wanted to fight another day.

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Now for the second game! Here we had 3 Fokker DRI and a Rumpler versus 2 English SE5a, a SPAD 11, and (if I remember correclty) a Nieuport 23.

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The Fokker may be nimble, but the SE5a are fast!

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The Nieuport was the first victory.

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Followed shortly by a Fokker

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The battle rages on.

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Another Fokker falls!

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Can the Rumpler and remaining Fokker get revenge!

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The Rumpler goes down!

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The Red Baron flees to fight another day.

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Final game, we went back to Italians and Austrians. First we have two Italian Nieuports and a.....I forget what it was. A Flying Boat!!!!

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The Austrians had a couple of Seaplanes.

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Some close ups of these repaints and shapeways.

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Can the Austrians stop the Italian recon mission?

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It got pretty tangled up! Somehow we didn't have any collisions.

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Getting the Recon!

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They got the Recon! Can they get home!

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Nieuports are trying to take out Austrians.

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Come on Nieuports! Get those planes off of the Recon Plane!

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They got one! One Austrian down!

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The other Austrian is hot on the Italians tail! Doesn't look good!

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The Recon plane gets shot down! Victory to the Austrians!

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A really great day! Hope to continue to play! Keep safe everyone!

**Stumptonian** · 10-03-2020 22:34

Great action with some really nice looking aircraft as well.

**milcoll73** · 10-03-2020 23:03

looks like fun!

**Flying Helmut** · 10-04-2020 01:34

I wanna play!
Thrice-be-damned COVID!!!!

Thanks for posting - I'm glad to see that some folks can still get together for some Wings action.

Great action, by the way.........and some very nice minis on display.

**flash** · 10-04-2020 01:51

Very nice to see Dan, those Austrians were on the ball ! Who were the lucky participants in this gathering ?
Scratch that - found the info in the US Wing thread.

**Old guy** · 10-04-2020 06:47

Good after action report Dan.

But the Nieuport 23 is actually a DH5

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Thanks again for report, and it was nice to see the crew back together again, I'm looking forward to next month.

**camelbeagle** · 10-04-2020 10:23

Originally Posted by Old guy

Good after action report Dan.

But the Nieuport 23 is actually a DH5

Thanks again for report, and it was nice to see the crew back together again, I'm looking forward to next month.

Sorry Bill. For some reason I could not remember what plane that was. I admired it quite a bit, figured I would at least kept the name in my head.

**camelbeagle** · 10-04-2020 10:25

In attendance was Old guy (Bill), his son Sean, Joe Cairo and his grandson, G Dog (Ray), Matt Davidson, and myself. 7 individual. Great games. The Austrians proved to be a tough air force.

**RJG173** · 10-04-2020 22:11

Looks like the reconnaissance seaplane in the last match is the two-seat version of the Donnet-Denhaut D.D.8. I have the three seater version which I must work on someday.