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Reaching for the sky; Boom Wing/OPEN
Topic Started: Aug 18 2014, 01:13 AM (419 Views)
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“Well then, I may just be of use after all.” he stated. Their food soon arrived when the waiter dropped it off. Nova’s food was a glass of orange juice, a glass of milk with a plate of scrambled eggs with onions, hash browns and pancakes with syrup. Boom Wing had a mixed salad and a glass of fruit juice. “What are the details on the instructor job?” he asked before taking a bite of his salad.
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Nova smiled wide and thanked the waitress before she left for delivering his meal. "Basically just teaching the recruits how to be soldiers." He said, cutting and taking a bite out of his pancakes. "They were so short instructors at one point, they sent me over to the facility as an instructor! Damn recruits drove me up the walls. Now I know what my instructors felt."
"Maybe... It's time to forget..."
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“Heh. Well who knows. Maybe knowing how to handle kids would come in handy.” Boom Wing joked as he took a drink of glass of non-alcoholic beverage. “So how was that experience?” he asked.
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Nova shook his head. "Never want to do it again." Nova said between chews. "Seems like they can't follow simple instructions unless you smoke the shit out of them first. They had creative ways of hiding contraband. And don't even get me started on the out of time marching."
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"Heh heh, we all start somewhere." Boom commented before he took another bite of his food. He had "fond" memories of what his instructors put him through in order to train him. There were some rather interesting tactics that were used to instill discipline and basic training in him. "Everypony learns in different ways. You just gotta be more... creative than them, sometimes."
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"Still don't want to do it again." He said. "I've got a difficult enough time dealing with my team already. Bunch of free spirits that they want to be." He took a drink of his milk and finished off the pancakes, moving on to the hashed browns.
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“We all have our strong-suits and our weak-points. Not all of us can be instructors and not all of us can lead squadrons. Still, I think one of those suicide drops would be fun.” Boom commented as he worked on finishing up his salad. The waitress even bothered to drop by and top off Boom’s ale before heading off.
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Nova put some ketchup on his browns and ate them happily, washing them down with the remainder of his milk. "They're pretty dangerous if you don't know exactly how to do it." He said. "Takes a lot of endurance to get up to those heights too. Not to mention how friggin' cold it is."
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“I’ve no doubt. I’ve been informed numerous times that drinking prior to bombing runs is generally ill-advised. But I’m certain at that altitude the alcohol might act as anti-freeze.” Boom commented as he finished his food. He held his ale in hoof. “My assumption is that you used the parachutes as drogues to slow you down since wings wouldn’t be able to handle those speeds. But you wouldn’t want to land in a tactical situation tied to some hindering piece of cloth so you detach them once your wings can handle the strain. The impact is still harsh, but stopping short of the ground defeats the purpose. Unless you make turns like I do, but that might break wings.” he rambled before taking a drink of his ale.
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Nova nodded at Boom's summary of how the drop worked. "That's the basic premise of it." He said. "There's a lot of timing that goes into it too. If you flare too soon and your wings break, but too late and you hit that ground to hard. I've already seen guys get sent to the hospital. Luckily they weren't hurt too badly."
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