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Offline REP0MAN

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« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2007, 10:55:03 PM »
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Originally posted by Widewing
Flak does not respect friendly aircraft. It didn't in real life and it doesn't here. You have to keep that in mind whenever following an enemy into a flak unbrella, especially over carrier groups.

My regards,

Widewing


Ahhhh, the voice of reason. I was curious where this was going. Thanks Widewing.

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« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2007, 11:30:35 PM »
Was chasing a set of ar234's to a cv group once.. jumped them on teh bombing run killed two and was finishing off the last one in my 262 when suddenly my left wing tip came off... The enemy plane flew thru the ack unscathed and I lost my bird due to friendly fire.. it was not a pleasant experience.
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Offline VSkwidd

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Re: Downed by friendly puffy ack
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2007, 02:05:25 AM »
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I was over friendly troop base, just about to pull the trigger on the only con in the area and poof, towered. :mad:  :furious


Yeah, i had a fear of puffy ack for a few weeks...
i'd fly a bomb mission forever then get all the way to drop point and start exploding...
so i started turning around every single time i caught puffy ack
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Offline DarkS1ar

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« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2007, 06:01:46 AM »
It was a lovely sunny Sunday morning with a wind speed of 0 and the weather called for low enemy contact over the enemy HQ.  Seeing this great opportunity I grabbed an rv8 to photograph and do recon for the up coming allied bombing mission which now seemed inevitable.
 
All Data had been gathered, and as I was getting ready to RTB when all of a sudden my eye caught a glimpse of a high Hog diving in from 4 ‘o’ clock.  In an act desperation and panic I pushed my nose down banked hard to the Right and gave it full rudder till I saw nothing but a tunnel vision, all this time hoping that he would miss.  As he dove behind and under firing his guns I did a quick check for damage, the left aileron along with one of the landing gear had gone missing.

He climbed back up to get in position for another pass.  This guy is not a bad shot, not going to make home this run I thought  ……….…

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Offline Kuhn

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« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2007, 09:58:44 AM »
Thanks for your replies. I don't remember reports of friendly ack hitting friendly targets. Now I know better. :D
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Offline LYNX

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« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2007, 10:02:38 AM »
Ive been hit by both types of friendly on more than a few occasion.  Mostly when close in on a con but just 2 days ago CV machine guns hit me on take off as a 110 suicided an escort ship.  No structural damage that time:rolleyes:
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