Wimpy Wonder

[Meaks]

149 Squadron N for Nuts P1593 Flying over Rochford......(Wonderful skin courtesy of LARRY69....Bravo Sir )

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Ops Are On!

F - Freddie of No.149 Squadron just back from an early morning Air Test today and now ready for ops when required with it's new owner.

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[ATAG_Vampire]

Wellington X9879 OJ -V 149 Squadron RAF.





As a matter of interest this aircraft took off from RAF Mildenhall at 20:52 hrs 11 Sept 1941 and was shot down near Kiel with the loss of the entire crew.

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[Meaks]

Glad your enjoying the 149 skins Gents....I know Larry69 will be pleased

N for Nuts P1593 Flying through the clouds over Rochford

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Night bomber!

[ATAG_FLAK BOSS]

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Night bomber!

Dangerous Moonlight. Nice pic Pat.

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[ATAG_Vampire]

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Night bomber!

Nice screenshot mate!

I think that is what was known as a 'Bombers Moon' Pat.

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[ATAG_Vampire]

Night Bomber 2.





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[ATAG_Vampire]

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Night bomber!

As a matter of interest Wellington Ic R1524 of 149 Sqn RAF was shot down on 5 August 1941 and crashed at Fouron St Martin, Belgium. All the crew were lost.

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[ATAG_Slot]

Fab night time pics Vamps.

[ATAG_Vampire]

Thanks Slot.

I have a few more which I will post at some point.

The screenshots were taken when I managed to get the searchlights working recently in a single player map I was building.

It would be nice if multiplayer night ops were 'do-able' in the sim at some point.

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[ATAG_Slot]

Wow
Night ops would be really next level scary!
I have tried a few of the single player Beau and Hurri and found them hard and impossible to land afterwards.

That searchlight pic was almost like a photo.
You would deserve a medal if you get searchlights working.

[ATAG_Vampire]

It is possible to fly in the dark and the runway lights do work well enough to take off and see.

However, for landing a searchlight/s is required as a beacon to get you close enough to see the runway lights.

Good fun but a bit 'hairy' on landing.

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[ATAG_Vampire]

Some night ops screenshots. The lights do work.

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[Meaks]

Love this bally aircraft at the moment,it takes a hell of a lot of punishment,and so far,it has brought me home every time unscathed,you can't ask more from your kite than that. Wonderful skin courtesy of LARRY69....Bravo Sir

[ATAG_Vampire]

Early war camo scheme Wellington Mk 1a.

[Meaks]

Believe it or not there were two N for Nuts,N-OJ 149 Squadron Wellingtons at Mildenhall,this was the first one P9273,unfortunately it was lost on a raid in October 1940 with the loss of the entire crew.

Here the aircraft has been brought back to life with the superb skills of Larry69....thanks Peter

[ATAG_Vampire]

Believe it or not there were two N for Nuts,N-OJ 149 Squadron Wellingtons at Mildenhall,this was the first one P9273,unfortunately it was lost on a raid in October 1940 with the loss of the entire crew.

Here the aircraft has been brought back to life with the superb skills of Larry69....thanks Peter

The AIR/81 records list the following with regards to P9273 OJ-N.

Flying Officer R G Furness, Sergeant P T Catto, Sergeant F G R McDonald, Sergeant K M Davidson, Sergeant M P Reynolds, Sergeant K Shimells: missing believed killed; failed to return from operational flight over Germany, Wellington P9273, 149 Squadron, 10 October 1940.

The crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

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[ATAG_Vampire]

Another early war Camouflage scheme for a Wellington Mk1a of 9 Squadron' based at RAF Honnington Suffolk, early in 1940.

There are photos of this aircraft, N3000, showing it flying with its rarely used ventral turret extended (not modelled in CloD)



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[ATAG_FLAK BOSS]

Another early war Camouflage scheme for a Wellington Mk1a of 9 Squadron' based at RAF Honnington Suffolk, early in 1940.

There are photos of this aircraft, N3000, showing it flying with its rarely used ventral turret extended (not modelled in CloD)



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Love these early Wimpys and their unique camo scheme.

Thanks Vamps.

Flak.

[ATAG_Vampire]

A busy day at a 3 Group Bomber Command airfield.

'BOMBING UP'





AIR TEST



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[ATAG_FLAK BOSS]

Ops are on Tonight.

Great stuff Vamps. I would have loved to have been on one of these wartime bomber airfields and watching all the intense activity around the dispersals preparing for the night's work.

Flak.

[ATAG_Marlow]

You are getting red hot on these lovely Wimpey screenshots, Vamps! Very evocative! Keep 'em coming!

I also really enjoyed those earlier shots of Wimpeys at night being caught by the searchlights. Was that on a server or single player? I would love to try to fly a real night mission with the Wimpey but I think all the servers stop as soon as it gets dark? Am I right?

Hope to catch you later on today. Salute!

[ATAG_Vampire]

You are getting red hot on these lovely Wimpey screenshots, Vamps! Very evocative! Keep 'em coming!

I also really enjoyed those earlier shots of Wimpeys at night being caught by the searchlights. Was that on a server or single player? I would love to try to fly a real night mission with the Wimpey but I think all the servers stop as soon as it gets dark? Am I right?

Hope to catch you later on today. Salute!

Thanks Marlow for your comments.

Yes I try to capture the feeling the wartime photos give when taking the screenshot. I have a long way to go before I can do that as well as the 'Master' (Larry) does.

The night shots of the 'Wimpeys' with the searchlights is something I set up when making the Wellington video I recently re-posted. I did it in the FMB. At the time I made the video the searchlights weren't working. Since then I have managed to learn what to do to get them working. The screenshots are a couple I made at that time.

Night missions are not covered by any of the present server maps as far as I know. I don't think night is something the sim copes with at the moment. Best time to try and replicate a night mission is dusk or dawn from my experience.

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[ATAG_Noofy]

The British planes in the game are not equipped with radionav nor night landing aid, so unless you can see the ground, your bombing mission would look something like the first discipline in this video:

[ATAG_Marlow]

The British planes in the game are not equipped with radionav nor night landing aid, so unless you can see the ground, your bombing mission would look something like the first discipline in this video:

Ha haaaaaggghh!

Hold on! Wasn't that Vamps lined up in the second lane!!!!!

[ATAG_Vampire]

Wellington on Daily Inspection.



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