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- From: Keith.Radley@launchpad.unc.edu (Keith Radley)
- Subject: Re: (WS) WINGS! A tale of the deadly skies (Fiction)
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:20:47 GMT
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- In article <tal691.726113295@huxley> tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) writes:
- >Here's a bit of a story I thought up on one of my favourite games, _Wings_. I
- >hope you'll enjoy it. (It also reveals how I play the game. ?:-)
- >
- >_Memoirs of a Flying Ace_
- >
- >
- >(Names have been changed to protect the guilty.)
- >
- > Barker looked on in shock. This was how the famed Asqwith racked up his
- >47 kills. He whipped his crate out, hoping that getting to grips with Fritz
- >would occupy my mind. Dumb boy. He had experience of flying against the
- >Germans, but not against someone on his side. He floated up in front of me like
- >a cloud. I couldn't miss. I pumped bullets into his engine. It promptly gave
- >a puff of black smoke. It was enough, I thought, as I climbed away.
- > Poor old Barker. He was a good pilot, I grant you, but even I wouldn't
- >last long with my plane shot up under me. With six planes against him, there
- >was no chance. He avoided one Hun, pumped a few bullets into another. The next
- >one got him square to rights. The Hun pilot hosed a spray into his cockpit.
- >Barker's plane shuddered a little, and then gently spun away. There was no sign
- >of Barker, only a red splodge. His SE5a pranged just behind our lines. Two
- >letters tonight. I cried a couple of tears. I'd have to avenge them.
-
- This was great! It makes me feel a lot less guilty (like I ever did!) for
- shooting down my fellow fighters whenever they got in the way or tried to
- steal my candy!!! As long as I get my kills nothing else matters!
-
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