Fantastic picture - Why not in game?

[sevenless]

Just got the 4.006 announcement email. Well why not put this beauty of a picture into the game as an additional background screen during load times?

 

 

[Ribbon]

Lovely Spifire und Messersmicht?

[Field-Ops]

But its a P39 ?

[Beazil]

Just now, Field-Ops said:

But its a P39 ?

Field-Ops casts into the stillness of the morning light, his fly lands just on the water.  It lays there in the morning mist, and with an expert twist of his wrist, the fly twitches ever so slightly.

Suddenly, there is a swell in the water.....

[ACG_Bobo]

The Messerscmicht looks like it has a fire leak.

[rowdyb00t]

40 minutes ago, =VARP=Ribbon said:

Lovely Spifire und Messersmicht?

Schöne P39 und Focke Wulf 

[Jaws2002]

54 minutes ago, III./SG77-K_Bobo said:

The Messerscmicht looks like it has a fire leak.

 

 

Yep. And that spitfire looks strange. It has a side door. ...Maybe it's not a spitfire... maybe it's an early  Hawker Typhoon.

[Ribbon]

54 minutes ago, Jaws2002 said:

 

 

Yep. And that spitfire looks strange. It has a side door. ...Maybe it's not a spitfire... maybe it's an early  Hawker Typhoon.

No, it's Spit 9T!

[Feathered_IV]

Great picture!  It would look even better if there was a famous quote written underneath:
 

“ I never went into the air thinking I would loose..”  ~ Eric Hartmann

[Cybermat47]

Looks good, but pretty out of place and historically inaccurate. I’ve never heard of Russian Su-27 shooting down a Luftwaffe Typhoon.

[Blooddawn1942]

Is that a Wildcat that just flamed a Zeke above Guadalcanal? 

[Hanu]

Reminds me this old joke:

 

A World War II pilot is reminiscing before school children about his days in the air force. (Joke best delivered with a good thick accent)

"In 1942," he says, "the situation was really tough. The Germans had a very strong air force. I remember, " he continues, "one day I was protecting the bombers and suddenly, out of the clouds, these fokkers appeared.

 

(At this point, several of the children giggle.)

 

I looked up, and right above me was one of them. I aimed at him and shot him down. They were swarming. I immediately realized that there was another fokker behind me."

 

At this instant the girls in the auditorium start to giggle and boys start to laugh. The teacher stands up and says, "I think I should point out that 'Fokker' was the name of the German-Dutch aircraft company"

 

"That's true," says the pilot, "but these fokkers were flying Messerschmitts."

 

[MattS]

5 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

Great picture!  It would look even better if there was a famous quote written underneath:
 

“ I never went into the air thinking I would loose..”  ~ Eric Hartmann

 

 

Or "Dogfighting was a waste of time." ?

[Lusekofte]

9 hours ago, =VARP=Ribbon said:

Lovely Spifire und Messersmicht?

 

8 hours ago, III./SG77-K_Bobo said:

The Messerscmicht looks like it has a fire leak.

 

6 hours ago, =VARP=Ribbon said:

No, it's Spit 9T!

 

5 hours ago, Blooddawn1942 said:

Is that a Wildcat that just flamed a Zeke above Guadalcanal? 

And there suddenly I was the expert

How many reactions can one give? I seem to spend them within an hour

[Feathered_IV]

1 hour ago, MattS said:

 

 

Or "Dogfighting was a waste of time." ?

 

Nice!  Also the unforgettable:

 

"Do or do not.  There is no try."

~ Pierre Clostermann

[Trooper117]

''That Fokker was a Messerschmitt!''

[MattS]

13 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

 

Nice!  Also the unforgettable:

 

"Do or do not.  There is no try."

~ Pierre Clostermann

 

"Either you dogfight do 'yes', or dogfight do 'no'. You dogfight do 'guess so' – [squisssh] – just like grape."

 

- A. Pokryshkin

 

[Lusekofte]

17 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

 

Nice!  Also the unforgettable:

 

"Do or do not.  There is no try."

~ Pierre Clostermann

I have put myself in such situations as a crane operator. 
How ever thats what bring experience

 

[Feathered_IV]

There should be some for Tank Crew too:

 

"With the blast shield down I cant even see!"

~Michael Wittman

[Rjel]

9 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

Great picture!  It would look even better if there was a famous quote written underneath:
 

“ I never went into the air thinking I would loose..”  ~ Eric Hartmann

I think grammatically you meant to write "I never went into the air thinking something was loose." Not 100% sure though.

[Feathered_IV]

Ah whoops, typo.  Sorry!
I’m amazed that there haven’t been any pitchforks over attributing that quote to Hartmann though. 

Edited May 27, 2020 by Feathered_IV

[SharpeXB]

6 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

Ah whoops, typo.  Sorry!
I’m amazed that there haven’t been any pitchforks over attributing that quote to Hartmann though. 

“I don’t even know how to spell lose”

- Erich Hartmann