Wiggy Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 Launch battle damage sequence... Blue skies, Wiggy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PapaSmurf630 Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 That really does look awesome. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wiggy Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 FINISHED!!! ;) Thanks to everyone who followed this very long build. See you in Critique Corner. Blue skies, Wiggy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
odombry Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Yeah, it's not exactly a feel-good poem! Little Miss Mischeif's story sounds kinda like an episode of "Amazing Stories" (a 1980s Twilight Zone knockoff produced by IIRC Steven Spielberg) where a B-17 has a midair with a peice of an ME109 it shot down, the landing gear won't come down, and the ball turret won't turn to allow the gunner to get out. After trying various plans to get him out, they almost shoot him in the back of the head so he doesn't get crushed to death in the belly landing. But the ball turret gunner was kinda the crew cartoonist so he asks for a pad and pens, and draws a cartoon of the plane landing on these big cartoony balloon tires, goes into a sort of trance, and low and behold, the gear comes down--big cartoony balloon tires and all! The plane lands safely, they drag the unconscious ball turret gunner out of the turret, and when he wakes up, poof! The cartoon landing gear disappears and the plane falls onto its belly, crushing the ball turret! Cheers! Curtis My Grandfather, Ray B. Odom, was aboard the Little Miss Mischief for her belly landing. He served as the ball turret gunner for 17 missions on that aircraft. Since they never actually made it over occupied territory, he never made it into the ball turret for that mission. They lost two engines before they made it to the channel and had to land with full fuel tanks and bomb bays. The gear collapsed and they slid to a stop. A new crew member was last to get out because he was trying to open the door under the nose, not realizing that it was on the ground. The engineer, Gus T. "The Greasy Greek" Goodis, ran back and helped him out another door. They ran from the plane and waited in a AAA bunker until some Major showed up with a fire team and searched the plane for them. When the Maj. found out that they were not in the plane, he chewed Lt. Moyer's *** for having put his fire team at risk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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