Yesterday, I replaced my old, venerable SideWinder Pro with an st290. I was in two duels I will never forget. Both of them were against spixteens, but these guys weren't dweebs by ANY standard. The first one was over water, and went feet dry and feet wet a good number of times. I can't remember any specifics, but this guy was a really good stick.
The second, I remember like it just happened.
I had upped my own spixteen, mostly because I had gotten tired of taking forever to do anything. I was near a coastline, and dived over a shallow cliff. There, I spotted a spit coming feet dry towards a good sized mountain. I pursued, and it soon became clear this guy was a DAMN good stick. We hadn't seen each other for more than 15 seconds before the both of us were screaming uphill, dodging trees only 10 feet below us. I clearly remember raising my left wing about 10 degrees to barely miss a treetop. Immediately after that, he rolled inverted and dived down the face of a 500 yard cliff, and I followed on his heels. He jinked and turned, and I stuck with him, taking a few potshots, only barely missing now instead of being way off, thanks to the st290's rudder twist control. We went on this way for a good five minutes, jinking and turning and diving, all while sticking to the cliff like glue. I never did shoot him down, only getting an assist after another friendly fighter came and dived on him from 1k to 2k alt above us after I had about a second of lag.
I salute that spit driver, whoever he is. That guy is one damn good stick.
1)i was in an A6M5B. got into a fight with a lone A20. next i knew it was 5 vs me. A20 bugged(extended). hurri2c, another zeke, FW, spit, and the A20 returned. very memorable, as i lasted almost 3 minutes, scored a nice engine hit on the FW, hurt something on the A20, and every one of em tried HO'in me. they know who they are.
2)was in my hellkitty, and see a low P38. i drop in on him, and a 2 or 3 minute fight ensues. he kilt me. <<S>> shuffler. was a good knock down fight...no ho's. i return in the cat, now there's 2 38's flyng together, lower than me, and one a couple miles north, almost co-alt. i go for the co-alt, as he's comming this way. we merge...cold.....fight ensues. it drops alt, and next i know, it's 3 38's vs me. i died. it was shuffler again.(GGRR) for some ungodly reason, i come back AGAIN, but this time in a 38J. i see 2 lower then me together, one lower than me alone. i make a run for the lone guy.....i loaded the crap outta him, and overshot......but no kill. in the process, the other 2 were on my 6. at this point, there were some squaddies on the ground under us, calliing me to drag the 38's to them. i didn't, as this was tooo much fun.(they were only trying to help me out). shuffler got me again.
3)couple days later, i see shuffler on, and thinnnk i see his icon. we merge(cold) and in only 2 or 3 turns i'm in the tower. <<S>>soulss. 3 momre fights with him, and i THINK i was actually gaining an advantage on him. i look back, and see a 38 closing hard, so i chop throttles, and pull round into my attacker. i augered.
both shuffler, and soulss, are good fights, and great guys. got a good film from soulss......i was easily able to see my mistakes.
4)last night. off the cv near A37 was a niiiice furball. took my hellkitty up, and got myself a couple kills, and thanks to slipknt, lowzx, and a couple others in the Satans Playmates, i was actually able to land.(for the first time in a couple nights!)
5)after the cv furball, i came across stang, then bronk in their airacobras. that's in another post. they flew them VERY skillfully.
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