IL-2 Great Battles | Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI - Eddie James RCAF | Free Hunt over Caen

Hello all, today we will be flying the Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI as we head up into the skies on Eddie James' career flying combat missions Over Northern France in the run-up to D-Day
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ABOUT THIS GAME
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is the continuation of the legendary IL-2 Sturmovik series that has set the standard for PC combat flight games for more than ten years. This new entry into the series will offer virtual pilots an even more accurate simulation of the most famous air battles of World War II. Better quality of content, bigger scale, new physics, more realistic aerodynamics and new game elements set this title apart from all which came before. We have only one goal - To give you a New Higher Level of Immersion!
Key Features:
PLAY:
Robust Single-Player Campaign that features a challenging and innovative AI system. Includes an extensive in-game achievement system that allows players to unlock historically based airplane modifications and upgrades as your campaign progresses.
Realistic graphics and unique visual effects: clouds, lightning, tracers, explosions and huge smoke plumes - all of them fully realized to recreate the aerial combat scenery of war time Stalingrad.
Flexible Quick Mission mode that allows you to create your own custom combat scenario in just a couple of minutes.
Classic Multiplayer gameplay with dedicated player controlled servers with your favorite settings for team battles and dogfight duels.
FLY:
Realistic sounds and physics, detailed aircraft systems modeling, advanced aerodynamics and state-of-the-art flight modeling gives you a real sensation of flight.
Become an ace fighter pilot or try your hand at flying attack planes and bombers where you can destroy tanks, trucks, AAA batteries, artillery units and even armored trains.
Control your plane with either joystick or mouse keeping the highest level of simulation fidelity and accuracy.
For those that won’t make it back to base, each plane comes equipped with a handy parachute!
COMBAT:
Hone your skills versus AI or join multiplayer where you can fight in the air or on the ground, manning T-34-76 or Pz III Ausf L tanks.
Control a plane or tank all by yourself or have your friend aim a tank gun or a bomber turret.
Unique and detailed damage model lets you use the pros and cons of various aircraft and tanks to your advantage.
Adjust the tank aiming sights for distance and view the tank interior just as a plane cockpit!
LEARN:
Action takes place on a 358 х 230 km map - The largest and most detailed recreation of the Battle of Stalingrad theatre ever modeled in a flight simulation with unique structures, buildings and landscapes.
Single-Player Campaign scenario follows the real chronology of the battle starting with Operation Uranus on November 19th, 1942 and continues to the complete liberation of the city on February 2nd, 1943.
Ten Legendary aircraft of the era have been thoroughly re-created using original drawings and blueprints from the Central archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Precise simulation of the flight model allows everyone to learn the special character and limits of each and every plane in the game. Use each of their special abilities and performance characteristics to complete your mission and survive the brutal fight.
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[@Lord.Kiltridge]

My grandfather flew Mosquitoes in the RCAF. He went to BRITAIN, and fought along side the BRITISH RAF. He and his BRITISH RAF navigator were killed August 19, 1943 over western Germany. I visited his grave for the first time at the Reichswald Forest war cemetery earlier this year.

[@AMG-316]

Wow. That's amazing

[@RPMZ11]

Bless em' all LK. My Cousin PO Jock Patton, 401 Sqn, RCAF...went down off Le Havre June. 02, 1942 in his Spit Vb, YO J...on his way back to Biggin for a pit at the Bull.

[@PATTHECATMCD]

10:21 Horrific moment enemy pilot lands on his own propeller. That's gotta hurt.

[@jacknicholls9679]

Hit his leg aswell so didn’t die instantly that’s brutal

[@AMG-316]

Did that 2nd F-190 pilot hit his own propeller when he bailed out...? Ouch!!!

[@Ro6entX]

That kill shot at 8:05 in back of the cockpit reminded me of a graphic story I read years ago. Don’t remember details on date or plane but the pilot took a direct hit or two in upper back, blew off his head, one of his arm/shoulder, but the other was still on the stick, somehow the plane managed to crash land/belly skid like so it was relatively intact. The locals soon arrived and probably wasn’t expecting to see what they did inside. Those 20MM rounds were nasty.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Ghost Pilot.

[@Ro6entX]

@@mikhailiagacesa3406maybe. Strange things happen in war

[@stevepirie8130]

In Stanford Tuck’s book when he was on Hurricanes one of his Sqn’s planes was found on top of a forest. The pilot had setup to land but had died as a 20mm had taken top of his skull off. The plane had continued and slid to rest on the trees.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

@@Ro6entX You misapprehend. Crew dead; plane keeps flying. Happened many times in both WWs.

[@colindouglas7769]

Well done, Taff! A perfectly executed Mosquito hit-and-run raid, shooting down two Fw-190s and not pushing your luck trying to bag the third. Discretion is always the better part of valour. You'll always outrun a 190 in a Mosquito, but if you try to dogfight with him, he will kill you. I think the two you did shoot down were low on fuel and maybe also out of ammo.

[@dalejones1977]

Love all the different camera angles you use, Taff! Awesome video!

[@nickjoy8868]

Great vid thanks Taff, you really got lucky there! Yeah that pipeline you were talking about was known as PLUTO, that's PipeLine Under The Ocean. Thanks again 🙂

[@corporalsilver6981]

I do appreciate how Pegasus Bridge has its own unique model in the game. Thats a cool detail.

[@Newnski]

Nice to see the Isle of wight from above, she's a beauty.

[@jamesrussell7760]

Love that Mosquito! Sebastian was his usual imperturbable self.

[@papasmurfette007]

Eddie The Eagle...

[@markvenn230]

Great vid. Thanks, I have been thinking about grabbing this. Perfect use of a Mossie btw😀

[@StuartKoehl]

I believe Mosquitos could take on single-engine fighters by employing the "Beam Defense Maneuver", more popularly known as the "Thatch Weave", after LTCDR James Thatch, USN, who developed and employed it at the Battle of Midway. In the Thatch Weave, two aircraft, or two sections of two aircraft, fly in a line abreast roughly 400-500 meters apart. Each aircraft or pair scans the area behind the other. When an enemy aircraft is spotted attacking one of the aircraft from behind, the unengaged aircraft turns inward towards the one being attacked. This is the signal for the aircraft under attack to turn inward towards the unengaged aircraft. This sets up the enemy fighter for a head-on attack, which will result either in destroying him or driving him off. The friendly aircraft then turn back onto their base course, having exchanged places. The process can be completed multiple times, until the enemy get discouraged, and it also works if both aircraft are attacked simultaneously, with each shooting the enemy off the other's tail in a head-on pass. Thatch was flying the F4F-4 Wildcat against the A6M2 Zero-sen, a plane that was both faster and more maneuverable. The Thatch Weave negated those individual advantages and exploited the Wildcat's superior firepower and robustness. The Mosquito, with its short nose providing excellent visibility for deflection shooting, and its withering firepower of 4 x .303 machine guns ad 4 x 20mm cannon, all concentrated in the nose, could use the Thatch Weave to defeat whatever combination of German fighters attack it. It simply requires practice and good coordination to be effective.

[@darthvegan]

Some great snap shots you got off on those merges. Good work!

[@joeaustin4472]

Excellent episode taff, Eddie James bags 2x FW190 fighters and gets mentioned in despatches.. that's a good enough honor for the exploits he's managed to pull off. Great handling of the Dehavilland Mosquito there taff, you got the name of the game bang on correct, you knew when it was time to flee and the speed of the Mosquito works it's magic. The fighter spirit fed the aggression like a true warrior but all the same, best only take on fighters if they're targets of opertunity like you did today. Great to see an operation in broad daylight, and the historical similarities of actual Mosquito operations we're well performed, nothing better for a Mossie than downing a fighter when it needs to land and getting low and fast when it was time to run, was so much like the real thing. Great episode, looking forward to next week's episode, let's hope that Eddie James gets a good long successful career.. Great series taff, been well worth the wait, you should try more bomber or even fighter bomber campaigns in the future, you'll be excellent at those no question about it. Keep it up mate 👍

[@darkfox2076]

Great series so far. Thanks Taff

[@daffyduck1974]

A perfect Mozzie mission get in, hit fast & get out. Shame you didn’t shoot up the airfield more. Might save you from another mission tonight lol

[@StuartKoehl]

These Mosquito fighter sweep missions were known as "Day Rangers", and went after ground targets as well as any aircraft over the battle area.

[@murfdog2216]

I love the Mosquito, and I wish I had a pilots license and had one to just fly around!

[@old_guard2431]

Random thought: twins with contra-rotating engines vs. using the same right- hand rotation for both. Contra-rotation tends to balance torque reaction at the expense of directional stability for single-rudder (horizontal stabilizer) twins. Hence the barn-door rudder on the A-20, and the enlargement of the rudder on the later models B-26 Marauder. There is an obvious advantage to using a single direction of rotation: no need to stock two varieties of engine/propeller for the same plane. But it seems like there might be an advantage in handling also. (Mosquito handling having been about the best in the war for a light twin.)

[@thomashiggins9320]

A bit of opportunistic mayhem. From what I've read, that seems to have been a Mosquito specialty. 😁

[@daniellucas1494]

Nice Taff - I would like to see some more Atlantic Fleet - or maybe Pacific Fleet. Always enjoyable sir - take care!

[@irisshea6313]

The kill at 10:00 made me think of like a painter’s brush strokes for some reason

[@kevlarburrito6693]

The Mosquito is such a beautiful aircraft...

[@arthurcrego8297]

Excellent flying great mission today

[@Flying_Acehole]

Is it okay if I say that I drooled during your video? 🤤

[@TomBartram-b1c]

0:45 you wouldn't have known about Normandy then.

[@copee2960]

Good show, good show old bean, Pip Pip.

[@c.morees9698]

You were VERY lucky not to be shot down by the chasing FW 190's

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Does Il-2 model if the Navigator gets wounded? Nice mission.

[@JamesLaursen-h3j]

The Mozzie was indeed, an incredible aircraft. What was the cost/unit vs Spit XIV, Hurricane, Tempest, P-38J??

[@davegoodridge8352]

Good job!!

[@Olds__R]

This is Campaign or Server MP?

[@bigmac60]

Nice work.

[@crlourenco88]

Looks like Warthunder 2.0

[@kimbonzky]

Am I the only one who get a strange horisontal line that sort of devides the videoframe from time to time?

[@hihihuale4541]

I think that Pilots of the Butchers where not Idiots. They was Veterans of the Luftwaffe. Greats from Germany.

[@joeancinec]

He had you 4 times turn easy mode off

[@michaelbourgeault9409]

I take it Sebastian is Otto's cousin?

[@jesseissorude]

I haven't flown a flight sim since Air Warrior III back in like 1999-2001. I've been mainlining your vids for the past month, and finally today bought the Stalingrad base game and an ebay HOTAS. This is all your fault, and I'm waiting for an apology. 😤

[@gibbs677bg]

Some real bad screen tearing going on.

[@JohnDoe-ff2fc]

Out there all on your own and you decide to engage multiple enemy (actual, proper) fighters over enemy territory? Are you nuts? I'd figure that your squad mates would welcome you back as a conquering hero, while your CO would berate you in front of them for taking such a fool hardy chance and announce that you are grounded and will do the same to anyone else that takes that kind of chance w/ the King's plane. And later he'd be buying you a pint and swear you to secrecy.

[@davidfans5852]

Mf is playing on RECRUIT difficulty

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Please stop flying your Mozzy like a WW1 fighter, continual banking just bleeds speed.

[@robertmiller2173]

The Mossie wasn't that fast, there is no way it could out gas a Fw 190. It couldn't out turn, out gas, out climb, out blast a Mossie! I just wish it was more realistic!

[@MrCenturion1979]

7:15 In a real battle, the enemy would take advantage of this mistake. The mosquito flew forward and above the German aircraft with its tail outstretched.