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@@wolfmanjackxl1691you mean the two longer black streaks and the third shorter one? I had just assumed those were three continuous streaks lol. Maybe it’s just my vid quality.
12:41. You shot up the bomber’s pilot *and* the autopilot. Fortunately, the autopilot can be reinflated using the inflation tube located at its beltline.
I really enjoy the WW2 episodes! Those planes are the epitome of technological advancements but still requiring man vs man. After missiles, the stand off distance changed and it just isn't the same.
Longshot is a good buddy! I watched his version earlier :) Good to see some North Africa theatre - often forgotten. Neville Duke's war diary is a great read for anyone interested in this area.
Correct. Moisture would condense and freeze on the ground at night, then evaporate into the air in the morning. Sunrises and sky colours were spectacular (my father's memoires flying Kittyhawks).
The Spitfire with the desert camo is so mean looking. 😍👌 I swear almost evey plane and tank looks so much cooler with that desert theme. Especially old German tanks.
SO COOL to see you and LongShot fly this mission! That 109 was splashed by Longshot 3 days ago and you today. He's gonna have trouble explaining that to his superiors! 😄
As an Aussie aviation nerd, few things get me as amped up as Spitties and particularly P40s (shoutout to my boy Clive Caldwell) in desert camo over Africa ❤
Clive was extraordinary once he learned deflection shooting. A great leader and uncompromising fighter pilot. Sadly a victim of the smear campaign back down under.
looool honestly, I had seen it while looking at the skins in the mission editor, but for some reason in the mission my brain was looking under the canopy, silly mistake.
They got the subtle pink hue of the sand and dust correct. That stuff got into everything, and made a lot of things so difficult for maintain and to operate in.
Yes, the colours are fairly accurate. The red dust from that bloody desert reaches as far as west africa in the summer. I'm still finding it in my gear 15 yrs later.
The British had some trouble with their tropical Hurricanes and Spitfires in the beginning, lots of sand in the intake issues and they ended up using American P-40's for a bit until they worked out the problem. Fun little tid bit.
P-40s were employed before the Spits reached the Desert fighting. They were the mainstay of the RAF when it became obvious in 1940 that Hurricanes weren't going to cut it aerial combat & it was equally obvious there weren't going to be enough Spits to send everywhere the Brits were likely to be fighting at.
P-40s Allison engines had severe problems with engine failures and didn't address the induction filter issue until the M version, 1943. Meanwhile the Spits in 1942 had the Volkes filter, then the better Aboukir filter. The USAAF acquired over 600 Spits and used them in Africa & MTO for top cover over the Allison P-40s. Lot's of P-40 engine fires.
This reminded me an old interview with a WW2 pilot. He talked about how dive bombing worked in reality vs movies. In most movies they show a roughly 70 degree angle dive when in reality the dive was completely vertical but for outside observers it seemed to be at a 70 degree angle because of the angle of attack.
I spent a year flying the DHC-6 and Cessna 208 about 1,000 miles south of this area in eastern T’Chad. No joke about going down in the Sahara. Unless you are near a water source you have but a few days at most.
One of the things seldom mentioned about the Spitfire is the beautiful, uninterrupted view you get from the Malcolm Hood. They really should have fitted it to the Hurricane too (They did at the very end with great success, but too late).
I've never heard of a Hurricane with a Malcolm Hood. Production stopped in '44 and the bird cage canopy was still used. The Typhoon IB however did get the bubble canopy. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of.
@ Hi there. No, it does take a bit of digging to find but it was a standard Hurricane (There is some info on the Secret Projects Uk forum. improved-canopy-hurricanes).. There were one or even two Hurricanes modded P3899 & P3221 with a ‘Malcolm Hood’ canopy, somewhat along the lines of the P51B, P47D and F4U-1D. Sadly it was never officially adopted on the Hurricane. I feel it would have made a huge difference if it had been. It’s all a bit sketchy but I feel it would have made a huge difference to the Hurricanes effectiveness and more importantly, survivability. Cheers.
@@nor0845 interesting one time modification. Yes, better vis would have helped the unfortunate Hurri pilot who was always looking over their shoulder. I think Hawker's planned replacement fighter meant no effort put into the old Hurri production line, otherwise it would have received thinner wings and a Meredith radiator scheme years earlier. Unfortunately the typhoon had its own problems.
It appears to be an the LF variant of the Mk ix with a vokes air filter integrated into the air intake so it's probably early to mid 1943 but it could be 1942 too.I'm not sure when they started implementing the filter into the production aircraft
Being a bit technical, most if in fact all, of Allied and Axis aircraft had Tropical Air Filters fitted to keep sand out of the engine cooling radiators. A good vid anyway given that DCS haven't set up a North African Campaign. Both my father and my wife's father fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy Campaigns. My wife's father, a Major in the Pioneer Corps, led his troop of Zulu's and Basutes up the slopes of Monte Cassino with pack mules, to get ammunition to British troops, losing a quarter of his men. He told me years later, that he couldn't have had braver men under his command. For his bravery under machine gun fire, he was awarded the Military Cross, presented to him by King George VI at Buckingham Palace...
Gee there were some pretty nasty rocks on that landing strip, you do a great mission then KIA when you nose over at 100 after your landing gear gets ripped off..
Hey GS, MISSION IDEA: Grab a few of the regular guys and do a 2v2 battle of Axis vs Allies with something like a BF-109 & FW-190 vs a Spitfire or Hurricane & a P-51D or P-47. Just thought it'd be a cool idea since I saw how expertly flown Shotgun was with that P-51 a month ago lol. Could be a quick miniseries throughout the decades. Start with WW1 and make your way to modern-day.
Hey GS, I would REALLY love another P-38 Video, maybe in a dogfight context. Im curious how you could put that aircraft through an emergency dogfight situation where you're at a disadvantage.
Loved the video! ( didnt watch it yet but i know it will be amazing ) i have got an idea for your outmatched series, Ki-27 Vs P-51, but im not sure if the Ki-27 is in dcs tho ;D
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That 2nd bomber pilot had the heart of a fighter pilot. Props to him for putting up a decent effort against a Spitfire.
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L39 vs aermacchi common buddy it's been a year I have been asking for this ultimate fight of two trainers
He had plenty of kills, Germans put those markings on the rudder.
Beat me to it! Counted about 12.
What markings? What am I missing here?
I count 17
@@adambulmash6880 The black vertical stripes on the rudder-each one is one kill.
@@wolfmanjackxl1691you mean the two longer black streaks and the third shorter one? I had just assumed those were three continuous streaks lol. Maybe it’s just my vid quality.
10:51 LOOK AT THE TAIL! EACH MARK IS A KILL!
I thought that as well
“I wonder what they’re shooting at?” could have been famous last words.
Like GS's saying, "I'm pretty sure that missile isn't an issue so I'll recommit." BANG!
the moment you said "what are they shooting at?" I immediately said "you mf" and then you got shot at by flack. that was hilarious.
He had 17 kills. They put the markings on the rudder of the 109
12:41. You shot up the bomber’s pilot *and* the autopilot. Fortunately, the autopilot can be reinflated using the inflation tube located at its beltline.
Surely, you can't be serious.
i am serious and don't call me shirley
Bf109 only had 18 kill markings on his tail.
He would have gotten the Iron Cross for that.
Yeah I agree triple Ace with probably a few more probables Iron Cross with Swords and Oak leaves 😅
Approximately 18 kills markings on his rudder. Certainly no amateur
I really enjoy the WW2 episodes! Those planes are the epitome of technological advancements but still requiring man vs man. After missiles, the stand off distance changed and it just isn't the same.
Longshot is a good buddy! I watched his version earlier :) Good to see some North Africa theatre - often forgotten. Neville Duke's war diary is a great read for anyone interested in this area.
Oh no, look at the tail, he is an ace!!!
11:37 Impressive energy infrastructure for Libya 1941 with all those power lines
The Bf-109 had fuel injection engines and didn't rely on carburetors, which gave them so many advantages!
My dad would have been 100 yesterday. He was cpt SAAf flew missions across Med in Italy. God rest
R.I.P. Lest We Forget
Brother, I just can’t wrap my brain around the quality and quantity of your content. Killin it, man
I guess the 109 pilot was in fact an ace: There were a bunch of markings on the rudder, if I'm not mistaken.
Yup you’re correct. I looked in the wrong place for the markings. That ace lived to fight another day.
17 to be exact……… 😬
Could’ve been a Hans-Joaquim Marseille type?
@@GrowlingSidewinder That's assuming he survived the crash and either walked out of that desert or was rescued. There was no sign of him at 11:40.
That word dusty-fog word you're looking for is Haze. Loving the WWII stuff! Keep it up, GS!
Correct. Moisture would condense and freeze on the ground at night, then evaporate into the air in the morning. Sunrises and sky colours were spectacular (my father's memoires flying Kittyhawks).
The Spitfire with the desert camo is so mean looking. 😍👌
I swear almost evey plane and tank looks so much cooler with that desert theme. Especially old German tanks.
Agreed. The F-16 with desert camo is one of my all-time most beautiful aircraft.
The original COD1 audio at 1:17 is awesome!
SO COOL to see you and LongShot fly this mission! That 109 was splashed by Longshot 3 days ago and you today. He's gonna have trouble explaining that to his superiors! 😄
As an Aussie aviation nerd, few things get me as amped up as Spitties and particularly P40s (shoutout to my boy Clive Caldwell) in desert camo over Africa ❤
Clive was extraordinary once he learned deflection shooting. A great leader and uncompromising fighter pilot. Sadly a victim of the smear campaign back down under.
Today, GS learned that the Luftwaffe put kill marks on the rudder of their aircraft. Multiple times.
looool honestly, I had seen it while looking at the skins in the mission editor, but for some reason in the mission my brain was looking under the canopy, silly mistake.
“That guy is not a ace”
When he got like 18 kill markings on his tail
Looool ya I was looking under the canopy. Deff my bad.
Technically true. The Germans didn't refer to pilots as "aces" during WWII. They had Experten.
11:00 the tail markings say he shot down a bunch of your guys
They got the subtle pink hue of the sand and dust correct. That stuff got into everything, and made a lot of things so difficult for maintain and to operate in.
I lived in Moab for 1.5 years nearly 10 years ago and I'm still cleaning sand out of my truck. 😂😂
Yes, the colours are fairly accurate. The red dust from that bloody desert reaches as far as west africa in the summer. I'm still finding it in my gear 15 yrs later.
@@bobsakamanos4469 Indeed.
This is by far the most interesting channel I've seen..it just doesn't get old!!🎉
He has PLENTY KILLS... the markings are on his tail!!!
F/A-18E/F vs F-35C (Fox-2 fight) would be epic to see! Navy vs Navy : Old vs New
Day 181
Longshot is down there shooting flak like a boss.
The British had some trouble with their tropical Hurricanes and Spitfires in the beginning, lots of sand in the intake issues and they ended up using American P-40's for a bit until they worked out the problem. Fun little tid bit.
Yea, the Kittyhawk.
The Vokes filter.
And the Australians.
P-40s were employed before the Spits reached the Desert fighting. They were the mainstay of the RAF when it became obvious in 1940 that Hurricanes weren't going to cut it aerial combat & it was equally obvious there weren't going to be enough Spits to send everywhere the Brits were likely to be fighting at.
P-40s Allison engines had severe problems with engine failures and didn't address the induction filter issue until the M version, 1943. Meanwhile the Spits in 1942 had the Volkes filter, then the better Aboukir filter. The USAAF acquired over 600 Spits and used them in Africa & MTO for top cover over the Allison P-40s. Lot's of P-40 engine fires.
His kill rack is on the rudder! You let a multiple ace go 😢
Good job mixin’ it up GS. Keep it up!
This reminded me an old interview with a WW2 pilot. He talked about how dive bombing worked in reality vs movies. In most movies they show a roughly 70 degree angle dive when in reality the dive was completely vertical but for outside observers it seemed to be at a 70 degree angle because of the angle of attack.
The Kittybombers in Africa & MTO certainly had a maximum dive angle. A line was painted on their side canopy for reference.
Rommel was the guy on the Kettenkrad... he got away.
The flak gunners didn't leave GS wondering long as to whom they were shooting at.
*sees the muzzle flash of the 88s pointed directly at him*
"I wonder who they are shooting at - there's no one else out here"
looking at the stacks at the Kraut rudder "no kill markings"
Loving the WW2 stuff again!!!
That Luftwaffe pilot had 17 or 19 kills. Kill tally's are on the tail of German aircraft.
Now if it was a Japanese or Italian aircraft I would have no clue. Ich bin nicht Wehraboo.
We love WWII content, GS! Great stuff. Keep'em coming!
German kill markings are on the tail rudder of their aircraft.
He had around 12-14 kills
Yaaaa someone else just pointed that out. Can’t believe I missed that.
What I like with the period WWII - 1970s is that there is much better visual range, plus the aircraft are so good looking
I spent a year flying the DHC-6 and Cessna 208 about 1,000 miles south of this area in eastern T’Chad. No joke about going down in the Sahara. Unless you are near a water source you have but a few days at most.
01:40 Everyone has a plan until they say "they're shooting at me"
You really need to make another video with this ace guy, you can't just leave him like that. We need sequel for that story
“Never fly straight and level for longer than 30 seconds “ Sailor Malan
One of the things seldom mentioned about the Spitfire is the beautiful, uninterrupted view you get from the Malcolm Hood. They really should have fitted it to the Hurricane too (They did at the very end with great success, but too late).
I've never heard of a Hurricane with a Malcolm Hood. Production stopped in '44 and the bird cage canopy was still used. The Typhoon IB however did get the bubble canopy. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of.
@ Hi there. No, it does take a bit of digging to find but it was a standard Hurricane (There is some info on the Secret Projects Uk forum. improved-canopy-hurricanes).. There were one or even two Hurricanes modded P3899 & P3221 with a ‘Malcolm Hood’ canopy, somewhat along the lines of the P51B, P47D and F4U-1D. Sadly it was never officially adopted on the Hurricane. I feel it would have made a huge difference if it had been. It’s all a bit sketchy but I feel it would have made a huge difference to the Hurricanes effectiveness and more importantly, survivability. Cheers.
@@nor0845 interesting one time modification. Yes, better vis would have helped the unfortunate Hurri pilot who was always looking over their shoulder. I think Hawker's planned replacement fighter meant no effort put into the old Hurri production line, otherwise it would have received thinner wings and a Meredith radiator scheme years earlier. Unfortunately the typhoon had its own problems.
Look up The Star of Africa if you want to see the greatest fighter pilot of all time, Hans Joachim Marseille. His exploits will blow your mind.
I was really surprised by those german lines from CoD1
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Bravo! Big Dog love the ww2 vids mix up.
It was triple ACE
Looked like he had about 15 kills. Germans put their tally on the rudder.
Oh cool, just dropped and I caught it! Your videos are my writing and art prep, thank you
😂 bruh missed the tail signs.... he was bagging the allies
Awesome! I saw this scenario on Longshot’s channel…it was fantastic. Maybe you guys can do a joint mission with the Spitfires over Libya ‘41?
At least the bomb didn’t hurt the kettenkrad
That 109 ace was very lucky you didn't know where luftwaffe pilots painted their kill marks. He probably thinks you were just being merciful lol.
GS "I wonder what their shooting at?" "Oh its me!" 😂😂😂😂
Appreciate the WW2 content, but especially appreciate you flying for the Allied forces! 👍
If you're in a Mk IX (and you seem to be) it's 1942. German kill marks appear on the rudder. The guy had about a dozen kills.
It appears to be an the LF variant of the Mk ix with a vokes air filter integrated into the air intake so it's probably early to mid 1943 but it could be 1942 too.I'm not sure when they started implementing the filter into the production aircraft
@@death-y2b Aboukir filter and Mk.IXs were available there in 1943.
@@bobsakamanos4469 yeah that checks out thanks
Do the same with the Bf-109 please. I would love for you to play in Tunisia with a Bf-109.
I was SCREAMING “look at the damn rudder”😂
Look at all the ticks on the tail!!! Absolutely an Ace!!!
Surprised at all those rocks on the landing field. Miracle you didn't snap off the undercarriage.
Being a bit technical, most if in fact all, of Allied and Axis aircraft had Tropical Air Filters fitted to keep sand out of the engine cooling radiators. A good vid anyway given that DCS haven't set up a North African Campaign. Both my father and my wife's father fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy Campaigns. My wife's father, a Major in the Pioneer Corps, led his troop of Zulu's and Basutes up the slopes of Monte Cassino with pack mules, to get ammunition to British troops, losing a quarter of his men. He told me years later, that he couldn't have had braver men under his command. For his bravery under machine gun fire, he was awarded the Military Cross, presented to him by King George VI at Buckingham Palace...
Love your stuff man. Video idea: axis matchups for example fw190 vs bf109 dogfight
Good job keep up the great content. Also just a video idea: Su-75 checkmate vs I-16 donkey
This reminds me of my grandfather who built spitfires in the western desert after they were shipped across in crates.
He had tons of kill markings in his rudder, "Waste Him!"
Looked like some good sized rocks on that runway!
"Fox-2, vechio, vechio!" "Please, vechio." -time.
Plenty of kill marks, also that nose emblem is of 1 Gruppe, JG27, commanded by Eduard Neumann, very competent squadron
Dang, that Spit looks great in those colours.
The victory markings are on the tail fin and rudder. And plenty of them.
Gee there were some pretty nasty rocks on that landing strip, you do a great mission then KIA when you nose over at 100 after your landing gear gets ripped off..
He was an ace with 17 kills. On German planes look for short vertical stripes on the rudder.
There is a B24 still sitting in the Sahara desert. You can see it with Google Earth. It over flew it's base and ran out of gas. It was lost for years.
Hey GS, MISSION IDEA:
Grab a few of the regular guys and do a 2v2 battle of Axis vs Allies with something like a BF-109 & FW-190 vs a Spitfire or Hurricane & a P-51D or P-47.
Just thought it'd be a cool idea since I saw how expertly flown Shotgun was with that P-51 a month ago lol. Could be a quick miniseries throughout the decades. Start with WW1 and make your way to modern-day.
Hey GS, I would REALLY love another P-38 Video, maybe in a dogfight context. Im curious how you could put that aircraft through an emergency dogfight situation where you're at a disadvantage.
The Libyan desert and Spitfire make for an awesome mission.
DCS is astounding but...how good it'd be having a Vb vs a Friedrich? Nice vid anyway, thrilling and entertaining!👍
Dude had a HECKLOAD of kills. Germans marked them on the rudder.
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"I wonder what they're shooting at?" ROFL!
500th! Then, i watched a funny Danny Sapko short and, when i resumed your vid, you'd already reached 550! Going great, uhu? Well deserved Pal!!!
Joachim Marseille was a German Pilot in North Africa. He shot down 158 Planes.
10:39 you can see the kill marks on the tail!
Man the drop off of those cannons are sever
Or would that possibly be Desert Fox 1, 2, etc?
Really enjoyed this map and mission.
In my dreams, Heatblur is working in the F4U Corsair.
Take a sip every time GS says "flak" in this video
The .303; downing planes through addition of weight
ww2 is my favorite content, thx so much
GSW: they’re firing at somebody gets flat oh, they shooting at me!
Loved the video! ( didnt watch it yet but i know it will be amazing ) i have got an idea for your outmatched series, Ki-27 Vs P-51, but im not sure if the Ki-27 is in dcs tho ;D
Ayy love it thanks
17 Kills!
What were you thinking!
Don't mind the huge rocks all over the 'runway'.
@GS. Love the new content lately! Can we get some more mosquito actions?