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2020-12-23

.:Arma Hobby:. fantastic article about first september 1939 shoots

by Wojtek Matusiak: http://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2020/12/21/swallow-no-4/
I decide to take ‘Swallow No. 4’ after sending a signal to the HQ about the squadron scramble. Kulesza, the mechanic of the abandoned ‘4’, turned red with joy that his machine would be baptised, too. They position themselves wing next to wing. Take-off like during a show. We are climbing up. We cut the thin layer of morning mist and go up northwards. We reach an altitude of 1,500 m. Then I see 5 aeroplanes in front of me, some 500 m higher, going in the opposite direction. I was dumbfounded. I can see black crosses on aeroplanes for the first time in my life – maybe a hallucination? I lift the aeroplane up and head towards the crosses. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see that my wingmen’s nerves cannot stand the slow speed and they gradually fall away. I make the deflection. Brrr… brrr… two streams run, shining, to the Huns. Here my machine shivered. Boom… and I’m in a spin. I push the stick, I kick with the opposite foot. The spin stopped, I pull back again to gain the lost height immediately. Too soon – I’m in a spin again – “Old but stupid”, I thought, reproaching myself, “wait for the aeroplane to pick up speed”.