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Offline valdals

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immelman performed by lancasters
« on: July 11, 2008, 09:59:07 AM »
this morning i witnessed along with two other defenders a set of lancasters dive on a v-base hit a hanger do a immelman twice without losing a drone. he eventually killed all 3 hangers. plus the lancasters we hard to hit with a wirble beyond 800 meters that was also wierd. the 3 lancs were finally shot down. 1 by me and two by another defender. comments?
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2008, 10:00:59 AM »
Thanks for sharing this thrilling tale of adventure, please post more.
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2008, 10:14:21 AM »
I am glued to my seat! More fascinating and inspiring tales of combat, please!
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2008, 10:15:04 AM »
Standard. Happens all the time. Bit dweeby but I know a few guys that do this regularly and with high degree of accuracy.

Lancs frequently pulled all sorts of crazy corkscrew maneuvers (with bombs still slung up) to evade German fighters. Crew members came back with broken arms and legs for the violence of the maneuvers.

Whilst suicide carpet bombing is a great way to ruin everyone's fun really quickly (and thus dweeby, in my opinion) the sharp maneuvers probably aren't that far out of the aircraft's war-time envelope.

The Hurricane's ability to dive with the biggest, baddest and heaviest American steel is more puzzling to me.

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Also, if you're trying to mow down lancs in a weeble wobble, you're in the wrong GV.

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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2008, 10:18:11 AM »
Quote from: Xasthur on July 11, 2008, 10:15:04 AM
Standard. Happens all the time. Bit dweeby but I know a few guys that do this regularly and with high degree of accuracy.

Lancs frequently pulled all sorts of crazy corkscrew maneuvers (with bombs still slung up) to evade German fighters. Crew members came back with broken arms and legs for the violence of the maneuvers.

Whilst suicide carpet bombing is a great way to ruin everyone's fun really quickly (and thus dweeby, in my opinion) the sharp maneuvers probably aren't that far out of the aircraft's war-time envelope.

The Hurricane's ability to dive with the biggest, baddest and heaviest American steel is more puzzling to me.

 :noid
true but that guy kept all his drones. i can understand a single lanc doing it but all 3 in formation. id lose my drones every time.

Also, if you're trying to mow down lancs in a weeble wobble, you're in the wrong GV.


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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2008, 10:39:50 AM »
 :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2008, 10:59:23 AM »
Quote from: valdals on July 11, 2008, 09:59:07 AM
this morning i witnessed along with two other defenders a set of lancasters dive on a v-base hit a hanger do a immelman twice without losing a drone. he eventually killed all 3 hangers. plus the lancasters we hard to hit with a wirble beyond 800 meters that was also wierd. the 3 lancs were finally shot down. 1 by me and two by another defender. comments?

deal with it.

as for not hitting them at 800 yards....well, it was probably more your gunnery than anything. i can't hit anything from a wirble.....


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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2008, 11:22:02 AM »
Quote from: Xasthur on July 11, 2008, 10:15:04 AM
Lancs frequently pulled all sorts of crazy corkscrew maneuvers (with bombs still slung up) to evade German fighters. Crew members came back with broken arms and legs for the violence of the maneuvers.
source?
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2008, 11:39:37 AM »
noobs thats all i got to say is noobs











next thing you know is he is doing the samething :noid
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2008, 11:49:48 AM »
It must be Friday.
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2008, 12:00:40 PM »
Quote from: Max on July 11, 2008, 11:49:48 AM
It must be Friday.

speaking of which......wasn't swoop doing a friday babe too?
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2008, 12:24:48 PM »
Quote from: Yeager on July 11, 2008, 11:22:02 AM
source?

That is a good question. IIRC it was a story from a Lanc navigator.

I don't chuck around nonsense and I remember clearly reading a particularly in-depth account from a Lanc crew. Now that I think about it, I suspect that it was an aviation magazine. Not FlyPast but something similar and it was definitely a crew account.

It's the sort of thing that sticks in your mind... I was amazed that the pilot could do such a thing with such a massive aircraft.

If I've got time I'll dig around through my old mags and see if I can find the correct issue.


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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2008, 12:34:02 PM »
hehe i do that
i fly out a while then do an immelmann, dive for speed,  then calibrate again lol. im pretty accurate, but ive only noticed it done with lancs
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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2008, 06:46:51 PM »
I'm on pins and needles just waiting for valgal's next exciting saga.  He should start a blog to keep us informed of his exciting stories.


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Re: immelman performed by lancasters
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2008, 08:10:27 PM »
And this one time...at Aces High camp...I stuck a Spixteen in my @%#%$. What? You don't think I know how to make myself dweeby?
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