Originally posted by streetstang
You know whats funny about that vid ackack. Alot of what I watched in that video (which I watched quite a few times), has helped me get through a fight in one way or another many times in the past. Its good stuff and you can never know too much about the plane you love to fly.
And after watching that video, it's amazing how close our P-38 is to the real thing.
It also has helped me in learning how to get all I can from the Lightning as well as Jeff Ethel's video. I forgot the name of his video, think it's called "How to fly the P-38" which is basically a remake of the WW2 training film but with him actually flying the plane and putting it through it's paces. He also does a mock dogfight to try to get a feel of what his father went through while flying it during the war. Very highly recommended video to watch. Another good resource that has helped me a lot in fighting Japanese planes is McGuire's Combat Tactics in the South West Pacific. After reading that, I applied some of the tips he gave for fighting Japanese planes to the game and was amazed how well they worked.
Oh, if anyone has any suspicions about the stall characteristics of the P-38, Jeff Ethel's video should put to rest any lingering suspicions. He clearly shows how gentle the stall characteristics are, so gentle in fact that you really can't tell that the plane entered into a stall.
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