[OOC] Another World's War

[Slypheed]

New post is up, folks

@Silverwind Blade

[Foster]

Well, if the MiG-31 pilot takes a pressure-suit, it can take nearly forever to get ready, since to put that on you've gotta strip down to your skivvies, and find an extra set of hands to pack your meaty frame into it.
-Or the pressure suit is Lonnie's skivvies, in that case getting ready is pretty quick and simple.

Seems the latter case usually happened if one expected to be on-alert for that day, stripping-out soon as you got off.

Which brings about the problem of pilot-hygiene during sustained high-intesity operations. (which during the cold-war, also had to consider the possibility of fields being chemically contaminated and/or irradiated)
-Which is about when the US Air Force unvieled the "poopy-suit".

Also: MiG-25 as a ground attack jet:
"As the bombs would weigh no more and incur no more drag than its regular load of R-40 missiles, its performance was not impaired, leading to some impressive bombing feats; when released at an altitude of 20,000m (66,000 ft) and a speed above Mach 2, a [normal] 500 kg bomb would have a glide range of several tens of kilometres"

Blyat. MiG-23 wanna try.

[Rhona W]

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@Slypheed

plane trivia

@Foster

[Foster]

More random stuffs

[Pilatus]

Posted.

Just so we're all on the same page. Here are a couple observations which may lead to continuity issues if we don't stay consistent:

There are presently (2) mentioned runways.
1. Improved Dirt Strip.
2. One fresh Concrete strip.

Are there any more firm details about the Expeditionary base that need to be fleshed out?

What's the current season? From what I've seen so far it looks like it's fairly warm early in the day. Maybe Avalon is in a form of late Spring or early Summer? Maybe it gets hotter/colder from here?

Random thoughts. It's late here.

[Rhona W]

Posted.

Just so we're all on the same page. Here are a couple observations which may lead to continuity issues if we don't stay consistent:

There are presently (2) mentioned runways.
1. Improved Dirt Strip.
2. One fresh Concrete strip.

Are there any more firm details about the Expeditionary base that need to be fleshed out?

What's the current season? From what I've seen so far it looks like it's fairly warm early in the day. Maybe Avalon is in a form of late Spring or early Summer? Maybe it gets hotter/colder from here?

Random thoughts. It's late here.

@Pilatus

I like the details you've fleshed out so far for the base, they're in line with my mental picture.
I figured it's as has been mentioned in the IC so far:

- quite new, as it's only about 6-8 months old
- mainly air-oriented, but more ground forces are arriving.
- there are hangars and aircraft shelters, they would probably be fairly modern types as they are recently built.
- there are barracks blocks, but they, like most of everything else, are probably fairly temporary-looking/feeling at the moment
- there's probably not much in the way of places to spend money, etc. as the base is still quite new, but the town that popped up 'outside the wire' is probably where we (and everyone else) does all their socialising and relaxing.

I would agree with the season being early summer, that was what I'd had in mind when I wrote my post.
Maybe an interesting twist would be that the seasons don't quite match up between Earth and Avalon, so it could be winter back home? That sounds like one of those bits of trivia that adds some depth.

[Massasauga]

So who's 2-5

Feel sorry for 2

Also, @Foster, No CBU abuse

[Rhona W]

So who's 2-5

@Massasauga

I think you just volunteered, congratulations xD

I found this earlier on, when looking at loadouts for A-6's.



Never adopted, but still interesting; an A-6 with an air-launched Tomahawk!

[Slypheed]

Never adopted, but still interesting; an A-6 with an air-launched Tomahawk!

@Silverwind Blade

Pretty interesting.

[Foster]

So who's 2-5

Feel sorry for 2

Also, @Foster, No CBU abuse

@Massasauga

Oh, you.

I have other forms of dakka to abuse.
-Just be glad there aren't any airships to roundhouse-kick a hand-grenade up their wheelhouse in this RP.

Meanwhile, my sleeping-habits

[Massasauga]

@Silverwind Blade Okay rephrasing with more details: Since the Major is Ranger 1, which of the other flight members are Ranger 2 to Ranger 5.

[Rhona W]

@Silverwind Blade Okay rephrasing with more details: Since the Major is Ranger 1, which of the other flight members are Ranger 2 to Ranger 5.

@Massasauga

Ranger 2 - Massasauga (since you bought it up :P)
Ranger 3 - Pilatus
Ranger 4 - Slypheed
Ranger 5 - Foster

Assume the order to be the same for every mission in the future, just to save admin time and to make it easier for us all to remember.

[Massasauga]

As your wingman, I will be sure to call blind every time you move, though it's gonna be admittedly hard to lose that big bitch of an aircraft going slow as it is.

>overshoots
>calls blind
>giggles to self

[Rhona W]

As your wingman, I will be sure to call blind every time you move

@Massasauga

I don't know what that means, sadly :/

[Foster]

Oh nice, I get paired with the Swede in the... flying museum ship...

@Massasauga, you could also find yourself paired-off with the MiG-31.

Silver, "Blind" means your wingman lost-visual on the guy they're supposed to be protecting (you).
-Because your plane is slow, hurrrr.

[Massasauga]

Hence the song I put up.

[Slypheed]

Oh nice, I get paired with the Swede in the... flying museum ship...

@Foster

Hay, even Cecilia isn't happy about flying the thing either. The small cockpit of the Draken and her taller frame don't mix well.

[Rhona W]

though it's gonna be admittedly hard to lose that big bitch of an aircraft going slow as it is.

-Because your plane is slow, hurrrr.

Tough shit, deal with it.
I chose a plane I liked, and I'm sticking with it.

[Massasauga]

Take it easy, man. We're just making friendly jabs.

[Slypheed]

Since I am having internet troubles(have been for a few days now), feel free to move on when Foster posts, as I've had bad experiences trying to make large posts from a phone.