This new page is devoted to RB3D players' tales of successful combats with the "named aces" of Red Baron 3D. To get things rolling, the first story comes from MARK66 (in action, above), the creator of the Moving Front Patch (2.0) for WFP 7.0. (Available here) If you have a narrative of your own, please e-mail it to the address below. Screenshots are welcome. 
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Combats in the Air _______________ Squadron No: 24 Date: 15th April, 1918 Type and Number of Aircraft: Time: 8:15 AM S.E. 5A, C836 Locality: 3 mls W of Chipilly Armament: 1 x Vickers (sync.) Duty: O.P. 1 x Lewis Height: 7,000 ft Pilot: Capt. T. Lonergan Result: Observer: XXXXX Destroyed..1 Fokker triplane Driven down out of control……….…… Driven down……………………………… ___________________________ Remarks on Hostile Aircraft: Type, armament, speed, etc. Fokker triplane. Blood red all over. Other EA triplanes observed were greenish with red cowlings. Narrative Took off from Conteville at 7:30 AM with other members of C Flight (Lieut. Lloyd, Lieut. Bewick, 2/Lieut. O’Donnell, 2/Lieut. Fletcher) to carry out a near OP over the area in front of Amiens. After climbing to 11,000 ft in broken clouds over Amiens I led the patrol E towards Chipilly. Approaching the town, Lieut. Bewick signalled enemy machines and I saw at least three about 2,000 feet below, flying across our course from the SE. I led the flight in a diving attack, curving to the left as the enemy machines, identifiable as Fokker triplanes, began a turning climb to the south. I fired as I closed on the leading machine that was coloured red on all surfaces I could see. My first shots from both guns went wide as the Fokker tightened its turn, but I zoomed and half-rolled, diving back down as the Fokker dived away eastwards. The rest of C Flight had engaged the other triplanes, so I continued to attack the red machine. He started to turn again as I caught him up, but this took him into the fire of my guns, about 15 rounds from each before I again passed him in a high-speed climb. When I looked back the Fokker was descending steeply and turning to the left, so I dived down after him. This time he took no evasive action at all as I approached and fired. There was no response to this attack, the triplane kept descending steeply, in a left hand spiral. I concluded that the pilot was dead or wounded and observed the Fokker as it continued to descend until it crashed about a mile W of Chipilly. 
I rejoined the patrol, and saw no sign of the other triplanes. Patrol continued for a further 45 minutes with no further contact with enemy machines. Returned to Conteville at 9:20, all pilots safe. Lieut Lloyd and 2/Lieut. Fletcher observed one of the other triplanes go down spinning after their attack, but it disappeared into clouds before the outcome could be observed. T. Lonergan Signed: T. Lonergan 27 Antiaircraft Battery, Corbie, confirmed a red triplane seen to fall east of their position behind German lines, at 8:14 AM. Decisive. M.S. Chapman Commanding…24…Squadron 
| 
