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Offline dedalos

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« Reply #120 on: June 08, 2005, 04:22:13 PM »
QUESTION:

Are you afraid more of a SpitV, a NIKI, a 51, or an LA7 on your six and why?  I left 190s out since they will not engage until you are in a fight with one of the above :p
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« Reply #121 on: June 08, 2005, 04:30:09 PM »
dedalos,

Unless they changed the FM on the Spit radically since I last played a Spit missing a wingtip is only going down.  It cannot fly on a wing and a half.


Nothing in AH will fly missing one entire wing so I never took your statement to be about anything other than the wingtip.
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« Reply #122 on: June 08, 2005, 04:34:21 PM »
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QUESTION:

Are you afraid more of a SpitV, a NIKI, a 51, or an LA7 on your six and why?  I left 190s out since they will not engage until you are in a fight with one of the above :p


La-7, everytime.  The Spit and N1K2 are too slow to keep with me when I extend (not run until D5.0 is between us) and the P-51 is usually beatable.  If I am in a Ki-84 I don't fear any of them, though I know the La-7 has the best chance at running from me.  If I am in a Mosquito only the La-7 out does me in all ways other than sheer firepower, though a well flown P-51, Tiffie, Bf109G-10 or Fw190D-9 is just as deadly as a poorly flown La-7 to the Mosquito.
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« Reply #123 on: June 08, 2005, 05:09:52 PM »
Picked a fine thread to hijack guys.

just let the guy go in peace.

he doesnt like La7s. Big deal?

So either say Bye bye or stfu.


Sad to see you leave Odd. You'll be back tho.

Enjoy your vacation. ;)
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« Reply #124 on: June 08, 2005, 06:50:48 PM »
>>QUESTION:

Are you afraid more of a SpitV, a NIKI, a 51, or an LA7 on your six and why? I left 190s out since they will not engage until you are in a fight with one of the above <<

Your question is a little revealing. In short I'm afraid of none of them (believe it or not, I play for the turn and burn). The best chance for a fight is with the spit 5, the rest will just run (unless they're one of the good sticks) if they can't get an easy kill.

In order, the chances of a fight are spit 5, n1k1, 51 and la7 (IMHO)

And I don't care if La7's are tough - was just saying - they're like a nuclear roach.

And yes a spit 9 can fly with half a wing - dead slow (like 125) and a whole lot of rudder. It sure isn't going to fly home, but it can probably ditch. The La7 was flying home.
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« Reply #125 on: June 09, 2005, 10:59:22 AM »
I'll look for the film.  I have finished fights with the wing tip missing and retuned home for landing.  The only way the spit will go down is if it was in the vertical when the tip was gone.   51 will make it home but you have to come in fast on the landing.
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« Reply #126 on: June 09, 2005, 12:12:23 PM »
dedalos, off subject a sec, what was up in the DA last night? There used to be a free for all between A1 and A2. I saw a bunch of people all on the same team flying arround. What are the rules of engagement?
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« Reply #127 on: June 09, 2005, 12:22:46 PM »
The unperked La7 is the worst single aspect of the game no doubt in my mind, but I'm not quitting over it, I just hunt them with a passion :D
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« Reply #128 on: June 09, 2005, 12:46:20 PM »
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dedalos, off subject a sec, what was up in the DA last night? There used to be a free for all between A1 and A2. I saw a bunch of people all on the same team flying arround. What are the rules of engagement?


I don't think anything changed.  It's just that people go where the numbers are.  If no one is in the A1 area when you log on you don't go there.  Next time you are on just ask if anyone wants to go to A1.  ROE as far as I know is to ask the other guy if he wants to fight.  Check 6 and wait for a reply and cold guns on the merge.

FFA can be fun but most likely you will end up with a couple of kids buzing you in LA7s :p  while you are fighting some one else.  We have the MA for that.  :lol
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« Reply #129 on: June 09, 2005, 09:04:30 PM »
Im with my dear, departed friend Odd on this---if any ONE thing ever makes me quit this game, its the unsquealing believable performance of the Lala- a PLYwood plane that takes hits as well as most metal ones, DIVES at 550 and maintains control (EVER seen an La rip?), is the fastest level-flying, accelerating non-perk ride in this game, all with a big, fat, drag-causing radial engine. A lot of you guys in here who said lala's are watermelon and ya killem like taking candy from a baby, your stats re:lala's dont seem to back that up--a REALLY good pilot driving a Lala ought to be illegal--look at Coors this camp--he is showing what an La7 can do when not powered by a noob-- my skills are somewhat below average, and even I can kill watermelon with one of those things
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« Reply #130 on: June 09, 2005, 10:17:33 PM »
It's not the planes that ruin it for me. It's their bullets and cannon shells. THAT's what ruins it for me.
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« Reply #131 on: June 09, 2005, 10:35:05 PM »
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« Reply #132 on: June 09, 2005, 10:43:26 PM »
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I'll look for the film.  I have finished fights with the wing tip missing and retuned home for landing.  The only way the spit will go down is if it was in the vertical when the tip was gone.   51 will make it home but you have to come in fast on the landing.


Yep, Spit will get home with half a wing missing.  I have film of myself doing it a couple times.  Also the 38 will make it the same way.

Image of my 38G in it's usual condition.  I was single engine with the good engine on the wing that was missing much of it.  I got it down.  I had to come in fast but I made it.

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« Reply #133 on: June 09, 2005, 11:11:44 PM »
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>>LA-7 and all Commie planes are way overmodeled here (Source MUST be "Official" Kremlin Documentation), <<
 



The source of La-7's data may come from...

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NII-VVS
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« Reply #134 on: June 09, 2005, 11:25:32 PM »
btw check this out, i think this is where HTC got the La-7 data

La 7 No. 452132-76

During the period April 1945 La7 serial No.452132-76 underwent production test trials at the NII-VVS. Below is some of the data from those tests...

http://www.btinternet.com/~fulltilt/Perform.html#La%207%20No.%20452132-76
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