Dogfighter: The Greatest Air Battles

[icemaw]

Originally posted by Mime
it is nice fantasty

let me get this right your syaing you know more about it than the guys that flew the planes and got the kills RIGHT!

[GreenCloud]

shame to see Duke..

Seen it before he was a loser..

Seen it now that he is a loser..


Pretty Amazing how a person can do such amazing things,..then undermine what he fought for..Unless it was to line his own pockets on the backs of the rest of USA's tax paying shcmucks


Makes me sick. gov employees need to be be strrung up when they get caught stealing and cheating...

[mauser]

I saw it about a month ago.  While watching the replay of the "Duke" duel I came to the realization that the vertical overshoot move they made near the end was what I was losing to sometimes in AH.  Merge to vertical for both parties, but the one who goes up first and is initially in a bad position hangs everything out and chops throttle to quickly slow his zoom.  Other guy who goes up second doesn't expect this or doesn't drop speed in time ends up in front of the first guy.   I had a diagram of the "Duke vs. Toon" fight from a book for many years but never really made the connection until I saw it animated.

[parin]

Originally posted by traps
yes Randall "Duke" Cunningham is the F4 pilot,
 

             wonder where he is now

Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (Randall Harold Cunningham) (R-California), who was re-elected in 2004, is retiring after eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. His term ends in January 2007. [1] (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002382694_watch15.html)

Guilty Plea
"Cunningham, an eight-term congressman and hotshot Vietnam War fighter jock, pleaded guilty to graft and tearfully resigned Monday, [November 28, 2005,] admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes mostly from defense contractors in exchange for government business and other favors." [2] (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_go_co/congressman_s_house;_ylt=AlcLvRLhreOP3lh184f6A8as0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-)

See the "Rep Randy 'Duke' Cunningham (R) Shenanigans Program & Worksheet." (http://www.jaxxattaxx.com/usd/syn/duke.htm) Details and supporting article links are provided below and a good summary of the events to date is provided (http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/09/11/news/columnists/observer/17_52_579_10_05.txt) by John Van Doorn in the September 10, 2005, North County Times.

[traps]

yep was well aware of his doings when I posted it Parin,

 just being sarcastic

   I think BGB (oddly enough) said it best,


  shame when your hero's have clay feet

[Sandman]

I went looking for it, but didn't find it. What's the name of the show?

[parin]

Agreed.

[culero]

Originally posted by Octavius
Recorded it earlier and just finished watching.  Anderson's rope of the 109 made me tingly inside.

He told that story at the AW Con in Indy. As he reached the punch line, I looked around the banquet room, and saw dozens of other wide-eyed flight sim dweebs looking around at each other, all with the same thought going through our heads - "Wow! He's describing a real world rope-a-dope!"

It was a real Kodachrome moment

culero

[Stang]

Originally posted by Sandman
What's the name of the show?

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Stang

Sandman, what Stang is trying to say is the name of the show is the Title of this thread.

Zazen

[Sandman]

Well... I looked for the title of the thread... even did a title search for "Dogfighter" and TiVo comes up with nothing.

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Sandman
Well... I looked for the title of the thread... even did a title search for "Dogfighter" and TiVo comes up with nothing.

Hmmm Think it's Dogfighting or just Dogfight(s) maybe?

[Sandman]

I tried "DOGFIGHTER" and "DOG FIGHTER".

No luck.

[BigR]

Originally posted by Mime
it is nice fantasty

Were you there?? I think not. Every time someone mentions this particular show, the Naziphiles crawl out of their holes and spew their endless "knowledge".  There are countless variables that could lead to the situation described by Anderson.  He�s a well respected vet and I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt concerning his story. To call it fantasy is ignorant.

[Brooke]

On my Tivo, the title is "Dogfights:  The Greatest Air Battles".  My Tivo snagged it for me without me telling it to (  ), as it has noticed that I like things such as Shootout, Mail Call, Battlefield Britain, The Perilous Fight, and Lost Evidence, all excellent war series on the History Channel.