Author Topic: vapor trails on high G manuvers  (Read 2149 times)

Offline Raptor

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 7577
vapor trails on high G manuvers
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2006, 05:05:35 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Brooke
What I saw might very well have been off wing roots intead of wing tips.  I can't replicate it offline, and I have seen it online only once.

The person you were fighting probably accidentally turned their engine off and when they turned it back on you saw the start up smoke

Offline Kurt

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1149
      • http://www.clowns-of-death.com
vapor trails on high G manuvers
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2006, 12:30:20 AM »
Or it was a spit mk I, and the engine cut out on him under negative G, and re-fired when fuel was restored.
--Kurt
Supreme Exalted Grand Pooh-bah Clown
Clowns of Death <Now Defunct>
'A pair of jokers beats a pair of aces'

Offline Brooke

  • Aces High CM Staff
  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 15549
      • http://www.electraforge.com/brooke/
vapor trails on high G manuvers
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2006, 01:24:07 AM »
It was a Typhoon, but I guess it could have been an engine restart.