SpaceShuttle in clothes of B-17

[Staga]

Nice flying, Borg.
Did your oxygen last to the moon or did you just stay in earths orbit ?
IMHO B-17's already have "tuned" guns so wtf are these guys doing? If they afraid to "die" in AH maybe they should play solitaire instead.

 

[Fury]

I'm sorry, is that 53,000 feet or is it 6:22?!?!?

Fury

[Staga]

Uhm... Another thing.
Flying out of map is one of the most dweebish things I've ever seen here (after space buffs of course). Here's the spaceman coming back from nowhere.  

 

[whels1]

 

Originally posted by Fury:
I'm sorry, is that 53,000 feet or is it 6:22?!?!?

Fury

altimeter reads for the 109 35,420 feet,
looks like the 17 is about 40k, since the 109
is nose up.

whels

[Fishu]

Those B-17 engines just doesn't overheat  

[Fury]

omg, now I can't even read an altimiter anymore!  2 weeks off is too long, I gotta figure out how to get rid of the RL so I can play again.

Fury

[Staga]

These ones are good "match-up" for 35k bombers. Would be nice to see them added to this game.

 

 

[Citabria]

I shot down BORG in his B-17 at 36k.

I got in my trusty P-38 which btw has a rated ceiling of 43k    

it took most of my gas to get to borgs alt then i climbed a few thousand feet above. it took oh so many slashing passes to kill him but he did go down in flames and it was quite satisfying to watch his debri float 6.81 statute miles down    

I ran out of gas 30 seconds after he went down in flames and coasted in and landed    

fyi: it takes p-38 about 18 minutes to get to 36k. with a 5k airstart it takes 16.5min for p38 to get to 36k it takes a buff over an hour to get that high even with a 5k airstart.

so you can get up to that buff and climb well above him but if you crawl up his 6 you will die fast anyways so slashing attacks from above can be conducted with impunity although aiming is hard at such very high true airspeeds

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[AKDejaVu]

 

altimeter reads for the 109 35,420 feet,
looks like the 17 is about 40k, since the 109
is nose up.

More like 36k.  The buff is 1.4k yards away.  In order for it to be at 40k at that range, he'd have to be directly over the 109.

Not that either is all that realistic.  Could the gunners even function at these altitudes?

AKDejaVu

[Otso]

Any experiences with P47? It has eight .50 cal and loads of ammo. Its performance chart looks also quite good. If u can just get it high enough, concentrated fire of those eight guns on critical parts (engines) should damage the spacefortress enough to bring it at least lower if not to the ground. I'll try this next weekend.

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Otso

[Soda]

Osto,
  The problem is staying around a B17 long enough to pour the ammo in with .50's.  The guns on the B17 in AH all train together so you find yourself, regardless of angle of attack, with at least 4 guns pointed at you.  A tail chase is pure suicide and to get alt above a bomber at 30K+ is tough, many of the planes here will lose in upwards of 5-7K/pass.  Citabria used all the fuel in a P38 to get above one (according to his thread and I believe it).  The B17 at that alt actually almost handles better than a fighter (amazing) in AH.

I'm not saying it can't be done with .50's at that alt, but it's sure tough.  You'll have to be really patient and wait for the right opportunities.

Soda

[arhurb]

Alt Bombing accuracy should be reduced, IMHO.

Model wind effect on Bombs.

As said here lots of times.

Meanwhile, I can't blame a lone buff to go that high. Meat on the table otherwise.

Cheers,

Pepino.

[Dinger]

Yeah, I busted Borg at 34k once.  He didn't even fire back.  Claimed he was "browsing" at the time.
My guess is he came on, put it in a climb, alt-tabbed and found some good porn.

[Eagler]

Looks like a boring way to play the game. Forget him, what can he do, it'd take half the night to get to that alt.

more power to him, he has more patience and time than I do

Eagler

[Fishu]

35k B-17 does less bad than half dozen rides at 15k and bunch of osties and fighters there