Mosquito Squadron in the Flight Sim Museum

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Mosquito Squadron in the Flight Sim Museum

Mission 02
Cargo

Ac : Mosquito FB Mk.VI
Date : 1st June 1943
Time : 0800

Briefing

Mosquito's bombed and strafed seven vessels in and around Hinder Bay on 1 June 1943.

Cargo ships have been spotted - take off and send them to the deep.

MiGMan's diary

334 miles to the first waypoint ! Yikes... better use "warp drive" (the ' X ' key).

OK - in the target area and sure enough there is a convoy below. After ineffectually unloading all my bombs and rockets - and trying several strafing runs... I noticed my airspeed dropping. It was down to 150 knots, what was going on?

Looking out the virtual cockpit over the wings I noticed, belatedly, smoke and flames.

Aha. "That would explain it" I thought as the Mosquito flipped inverted and disintegrated.

The ships were throwing up a fair bit of FLAK ... and there was that flight of fighters I had been ignoring until now. OK - try again and this time I'd pay a lot more attention to the threats. This was no cakewalk.

This time the "Barnhof Boys", as they were called, made an initial nuisance of themselves, getting on my tail for a moment before heading up and away, they just didn't want to play after that.

Turning my attention back to the ships - and by now I had spotted 3 convoys - I put to one side the entreaties of my wingmen "Look out for the FLAK".. and went down for another strafing run.

It's very easy to exceed the V_NE of 364 knots in a dive so I throttled back and was sitting on 350 knots when whamm bammm... the Mossie jolted from side to side then exploded.

This was proving to be quite a challenge. Note - I was playing the campaign on the recommended 'easy' setting.

Third time lucky - I shared a kill on "Doppelganger" and was able to warp home.

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