Heh, thanks! 
Energy fight only if you have an altitude advantage. Don’t turn and try to bug out if co E.
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Some Achtung Jabos! mission two screens.
Breakthrough
1:Location: A 84, Chievres Belgium, December 18, 1944, 11:00 Hours
Call Sign: Eagle 2
Briefing: The first reconnaissance mission this morning was forced to return without dropping ordnance due to bad visibility over the target area, where German tanks are still being reported. The IX Tactical Air Command has called and insisted that we get a flight out that way, or the tanks will be through our lines in no time with nothing but cooks and clerks between us and them. We will do our best not to let them down.
Weather: As you all can see, the weather is terrible with a solid overcast below one thousand feet. It’s not snowing now, but the ceiling is dangerously low.
Navigation: After takeoff, climb above the overcast to join up in formation. Heading to target area is 90 degrees due east for 40 miles. It is in the same area where we encountered enemy traffic yesterday.
Armament:
8 M2 .50 cal Machine Guns
Two 500 lb. HE bombs
Same crappy weather, different day 
We’re off to save the cooks!
Trying to stay with lead in the target area with 500 foot ceilings is not easy when he is jinking all over the place.
His bombs come off his Jug with me in trail and I have about a second to line up on a bridge and pickle. We have set 3 second delays but I don’t see or hear them go off. A few more jinks and he is climbing up through the soup. I lose him, so cheat left a little and fly blind for a couple of minutes until I break out, He is about a mile to the North with 3 and 4 in trail. How did they do that?
About 5 minutes later we get jumped by some 190s. I bag one who is skimming along the top of the scud.
When I join up after the fight, I see that our fearless leader is trailing something.
I get little closer to do a battle damage check, but it doesn’t look bad. Only about 30 miles left to RTB and he makes it.
It’s nice to be RTB.
The boys have lit some smudge pots for us. I didn’t notice them when we were leaving.
So, I must have shacked a medium tank on the bridge to go along with the 190. Sweet!
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Easter…egg…? 
Remember the christmastree?
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Pretty neat. 
Wheels
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Yuri flew to Vostok on April 12. Guessing that.
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All hail the first human in space.
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Yep…a true hero! Died way too young.
Some Achtung Jabos! mission 5 screens. The mission is an early evening recon of an airfield near the reported FLOT to see how far the German offensive has pushed today.
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More Jabo fun. Mission 6. Lots of ground targets and we were followed home by some ME-110s. I had landed, turned off to park, and thinking about a cold Bud when air raid siren sounded. Spun around and performed a downwind WEP takeoff in time to bag one. But I think that I subjected the blower to overspeed, because I was smoking until engine shutdown. BTW, I should have checked six before pickling my rocket tubes in my wingman’s grill :). He was not amused.
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I am 3 missions into a career with the Bf110 and have been successful up to now. I dont have Iron man checked and my other career flying a Mig is now a POW
I have just made it back with one engine and successfully landed my rear gunner accounting for 3 Yaks and I bagged an IL2. I would love to be able to add some screens but I only get the double screen snap when using steam screensaver. Can I get shots from a mirror or from 1 eye perspective?
Answers on a postcard please
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If you have a nvidia card you could use shadowplay for screenshots
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Sir Cib, what about recording your flight (LFT CTRL + R) and then taking shots during playback of the mission, which could be done in 2D? During a mission I’m frequently too focused to snap a photo anyway. I also use what @il2crashesnfails mentioned with ShadowPlay. It creates .PNG which are editable in LightRoom. Uh-oh, my postcard is past full.
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Please let me know if you are getting tired of me spamming this thread with Thunderbolt porn 
More Achtung Jabos! (free) scripted campaign, which keeps getting better and tougher with each mission.
As the German legions thrust further West…
…our armorers load our flight up for bear.
Approaching the FLOT, we have a great view of our guys sending rounds out. Get 'em boys!
Unfortunately, German counter-battery fire splashes 6 rounds dead center of our gun emplacements as we watch helplessly. Raven 2 breaks radio silence and mutters, poor bastards.
Our orders are to interdict supply trains supporting the Kraut offensive. Therefore, we overfly a bunch of targets strung out to the East in search of rail traffic. As our targets come into view on the near horizon, I give the simple order, Do like me, and dive toward the nearest steam spewing monster. Pickling a pair of 500 lb eggs, I imagine below that there are cries of ACHTUNG JABOS as the flakwagon crews attempt to swing their guns.
They are too late.
Proof that you don’t actually have to hit a train to mess one up.
A 2 second delay is time enough for me to clear the blast radius. The rest of the flight drops on this train too. Even though they are probably fifty + meters off the mark, their bombs help to transform the remaining cars into an inferno.
Some payback for our thirteen-bravos.
With one burning, I pull off to the North and pitch back in looking for train number two. His poor luck. I select rocket pairs.
I send three quick salvos.
My convergence is wide enough and I am low enough that only the left rockets strike the train.
Whether by my poor flying or by divine intervention, the flakwagons receive the brunt of the attack.
The second salvo strikes what must be an ammo car, setting it ablaze.
And sends it to hell.
Such a hap-hap-hap-happy face!
Our work is done here boys. Let’s saddle up and bug out before the Krauts get their 88’s up.
…which was prophetic, because these bastards had a flak trap setup (one of two in this mission) on the route home.
And since I was leading, guess who caught the cold bore shot?
The Jug being what it is, I managed to RTB. But that near orphaning of my children had quite a sobering effect. Never relax.
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Raven flight of IX TAC was tasked with taking out fuel depot.
So we did.
When you are running out of fuel and you have almost reached the depot, an inferno on the horizon is not a welcoming sight.
Flak PKZ at the rear of the column tries to chase off the Jabos, but ends up shooting up a tree instead. Poor buggers.
A fighter sweep was on the board for Raven the next day. To the question of if a P-47D can dance with a K4, the answer is most certainly it can, especially if you can lure the Me about 5k. But even if you have to go down and play with them, with WEP and the right oil, intercooler, and cowl settings, the Jug is a formidable beast.
Having said that, their flight lead jump all over Raven 4. I attempted to drive him off, but it was obvious that we were facing an Experten. I closed enough to get some hits, but his shells finally brought down the Thunderbolt.
Another day my friend.
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