Author Topic: LA7 Ufo? (Read 3453 times)

Vudak · « **Reply #30 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:31:09 PM »

Every time I poke my head in the General Forums, nothing's ever changed

Grab a Corsair, they'll eat 'em for breakfast and you'll make good perks. Problem solved.

SINNER · « **Reply #31 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:33:30 PM »

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Originally posted by Vudak
Every time I poke my head in the General Forums, nothing's ever changed

Grab a Corsair, they'll eat 'em for breakfast and you'll make good perks. Problem solved.

If I could search for LA7, I could just read someone else getting pounded over this and not look like such a whiner, but then again, that's a whine too huh?

WHY CAN'T I SEARCH FOR LA7? Google can.

And speaking of corsair's, I left out AKDogg - F4U1 in my list of disparate plane aces.

Bronk · « **Reply #32 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:33:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Vudak
Every time I poke my head in the General Forums, nothing's ever changed

Grab a Corsair, they'll eat 'em for breakfast and you'll make good perks. Problem solved.

I prefer a spit IX .

But I'm a spit dweeb .

Bronk

SteveBailey · « **Reply #33 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:44:02 PM »

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hated to fly the LA-7 but I started... It was great fun to catch runners in it

I have heard several people say this. Personally I know this to be a lame arsed cop out of an excuse for the speaker/typer to get in a LA7.

Lusche · « **Reply #34 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:48:25 PM »

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Originally posted by SINNER
Those stats are definitely worth knowing but they don't tell you how many of them are flying around,

Best way to assess "usage" of a fighter is simply to add kills & deaths. A fighter is usually either a killer or a vicitim.
For the La7, the numbers do not change much, the "usage" would be about 6%

Plane Kills Deaths K/D "Usage"
P-51D 30383 28498 1.07 58881
Spitfire Mk XVI 28123 25946 1.08 54069
N1K2 30475 23318 1.31 53793
La-7 26047 21259 1.23 47306
P-38L 11868 16237 0.73 28105
F6F-5 12478 14285 0.87 26763
Typhoon IB 15990 10255 1.56 26245
Hurricane Mk IIC 15625 9200 1.70 24825
SeaFire 11546 13256 0.87 24802
Bf 110G-2 11038 13735 0.80 24773
Spitfire Mk VIII 9368 11199 0.84 20567
Spitfire Mk IX 10519 9454 1.11 19973

On a personal note, the La7 was the plane I did choose to begin my AH2 career with. It was the right plane for me at that time to have at least a chance to get a kill and to get home in an arnea full of experienced pilots. Its speed and maneuverabiltiy made it perfect for learning the basics of air combat & gameplay in the MA.

AKDogg · « **Reply #35 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:50:03 PM »

I find the la7 not to be a problem in the MA. The plane I think is the problem is the hurri IIC. The plane is way to manuevable at high speeds. I had 1 the other night stay with me doing a spiral dive at over 450mph all the way down to the earth leveling and yet stay with me for a long time. Its only the IIC that I find can do this. Wings should come off at those speeds doing those manevs on the hurri pulling over 7g's.

Lusche · « **Reply #36 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:55:32 PM »

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Originally posted by SINNER

WHY CAN'T I SEARCH FOR LA7? Google can.

In many of the longer La-7 threads, the words LaLa and/or GayLa do appear sooner or later

LePaul · « **Reply #37 on:** December 27, 2006, 05:07:48 PM »

Ugh, 380+ films to leaf thru

Or, even better, hit the Training Room and try it. I'm not currently a subscriber so all I can do is offline play or H2H

No BS, just grab two people and see for yourself....a slow, low energy durn mind ya, not a 9G bender

mussie · « **Reply #38 on:** December 27, 2006, 05:29:26 PM »

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Originally posted by SteveBailey
I have heard several people say this. Personally I know this to be a lame arsed cop out of an excuse for the speaker/typer to get in a LA7.

Lame arse excuse....

Check my stats, You will see me in Hurri-1's Spitty-1 TBM's FM2's

Personally I think you comment is a lame arse.... Now go bite a pillow

EDIT: I just love the way you know my comment is an excuse.... How the F*&(& could you know anything about what I say when you dont know me....

Man that gives my the chits

1Boner · « **Reply #39 on:** December 27, 2006, 05:34:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Lusche
To my knowledge, the most produced plane is the Po-2, followed by the Il2/Il10 family.

the petlyakov pe-2 was a light bomber. some were converted to night fighters. they made about 11,000 of those planes

il2 s were more of a ground attack plane, as anyone who has flown one in here can tell ya!! they made about 35,000 of those.

for true fighters?

the la7? they made about 5500 of them

i was wrong about the lala being the most produced "plane" by the russians.

i stand (and sit) corrected!!

your buddy,

Boner

official "member" of the AH BBs

public relations officer for Boner

for a little perspective-----aprox. 9000 japanese zeros were made in the whole war.

Lusche · « **Reply #40 on:** December 27, 2006, 05:44:14 PM »

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Originally posted by 1Boner
the petlyakov pe-2 was a light bomber.

Well, I was mentioning the Po-2, not The Pe-2. The Po-2 (earlier name was U-2) was first built as a training plane, but was also used in combat during WW2, most notably as a light night attack plane used by the female-only 588th Night Bomber Regiment - the infamous Night Witches. Other uses were crop dusting, light transport, recon and many more.

It seems that at least some 40,000 Po-2/U-2 were built

BaldEagl · « **Reply #41 on:** December 27, 2006, 05:48:14 PM »

I've never really noticed that many LA-7's. I usally fly a Spit XVI and don't have any trouble with LA's. Now if we could perk those damn Nik's...

1Boner · « **Reply #42 on:** December 27, 2006, 06:07:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Lusche
Well, I was mentioning the Po-2, not The Pe-2. The Po-2 (earlier name was U-2) was first built as a training plane, but was also used in combat during WW2, most notably as a light night attack plane used by the female-only 588th Night Bomber Regiment - the infamous Night Witches. Other uses were crop dusting, light transport, recon and many more.

It seems that at least some 40,000 Po-2/U-2 were built

po2 was a bi-plane!!! 40,000 built?--i hope so--they started building them in the 20s and didn,t stop until the 50s!!

night witches seemed like a cool bunch though---bomber regiments.

i had to look this up!! lol,

Boner

i am however very impressed with your knowledge of that plane!!:O

but i thought this discussion was on planes built and flown DURING ww2.

Lusche · « **Reply #43 on:** December 27, 2006, 06:26:35 PM »

Po2 was built and flown during WW2

1Boner · « **Reply #44 on:** December 27, 2006, 06:32:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Lusche
Po2 was built and flown during WW2

yeah i know lusche. but not all 40k of them!!

i don,t wanna argue about it with ya, but i think we are talking production

of relevent fighters during ww2.