So here's a question, what was the favorite kill you've scored in your AH careers?
I happen to be partial tonight to one of my most recent:
I'd just downed an La-7 near his base, (short fight, he tried to dive out and run for the ack, passed too high over the base, and I nailed him when he tried to swing back around) and was turning to cruise home low on gas. Yeah, I was also trying to bait the guy to come back up again, which he did. I'm maintaining by climb to about 7k, then leveled out on a course home, keeping an eye on the dot climbing up behind me.
He reaches con range and, surprise surprise,, it was an La-7, climbing for all he's worth to reach my altitude, which after I'm just leaving his field's dar circle he does, about 5k out. He noses down to accelerate, thinking he's going to slip in on my six unawares (which I'm intentionally allowing him to close so he thinks he's succeeded).
As he hits 3000 yards distance, I throw full power and RPM, punch WEP and snap into a Split-S under him. Rather than try and follow he goes nose-high and tries to pull into a loop to evade. As he begins to cross over my line of flight I roll 180 into an Immelmann, close into 400 yards before I complete my loop and let him have it in the wing.
I leveled out and turned for home (adding three B-24s to my tally on the way in). When I get the kill message on the La, as I expected it was the same guy as not a few minutes before.
It can be so entertaining ruining the plans of the sortie spoilers hoping to pop you in the back when you turn for home.