Originally posted by lasersailor184
The mission planner said that if the goons are attack, the typhoons should drop the 1k pounder bombs and save them.
So of Course he gave the call. I pulled up from 40 feet then released the bombs while I was heading upwards. I looked backwards and suddenly it occured to me.
I don't think many people out of our mission knew that if you drop a bomb too low, it will kill you.
You know, suddenly I think I understand something that puzzled me for months.
I was making a relatively low approach to an enemy airfield in an F4U with a pair of 1k bombs, and I'd passed a goon on my way in. As I angle over toward the field, I hear the goon driver call for help. I start to pull up into a chandelle to go back to help, and realize I'm heavy, so I pickle my bombs and keep turning. About ten seconds later, as I'm starting to line up for a pass on the Spit harassing the goon (he must have been down to BBs or a dweeb, because he'd made two passes without shooting the goon down), I get a kill message. The three of us were the only planes I could see; I couldn't think of anyone I'd damaged I might have gotten a kill for when someone else finished them off.
Now I think I understand what must have happened; I must have bull's-eyed some poor schmuck in a GV with my eggs, which I'd just lobbed off in whatever direction they wanted to go, at about a sixty-degree up angle, so that they would have been in the air for a bit before they hit.
I can only imagine what the GV driver must have thought; I was never within icon range of an enemy GV, and didn't see anything on the ground, so I must have been more than 2k out from him. If he was watching me, I must have come off as the deadliest bombflinger in the game to be able to hit him from that far out -- and turning away without even bothering to do BDA, to boot... or he wasn't watching, and died without knowing how freak a long shot it was.