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After narrowly dodging a jettisoned bomb earlier this week in a Spitfire IXe, my luck against falling objects runs out in my newly launched Kuban Campaign (Crimea/Taman Peninsula area). I'm in a Bf109G-4/R6, leading a flight on patrol near the port of Novorossiysk, which the Soviets recently recaptured. My wingmen remain high cover as I pounce on an easy target, a Soviet Li-2 (Soviet license-built C-47). My closure is high, but lured by the kill, I press in. And out of the black smoke that erupts, BANG, something strikes my prop. It happens so fast I never see it, and don't know what happened until I looked a the recordings.

For this video, I used some cool Matrix-style freeze and swivel camera work to show what happened as the Li-2's rudder strikes me. Could have been avoided, lesson learned.

The Bf109G series is much more challenging than my beloved Spitfire: rudder control and engine control require a lot more attention. I'm enjoying the challenge.