The Thousand Yard Kill

[Jekyll]

I hardly ever film fights anymore, but tonight offered the perfect chance to capture the 1000yd kill on film.  Well, almost a kill    Landed enough solid shots on him at 1000yds to force an immelmann.  Cut inside his turn and finished the job up nice and close.

I'm chasing a low P51 at about 500mph.  Now admittedly, he kept nice and straight for me, but had no problems landing solid hits at 1000yds on my FE.  God only knows what his FE would have been showing with my normal 500ms ping time  

Now, the funny thing is, I have my convergence in the P51 set at 300yds.  Assuming 20 feet between the two sets of guns, basic trigonometry tells me that at 1000yds the bullet streams should be about 50 feet apart.. well outside the 37 foot wingspan of a P51.

The film is here

This at least partially made up for the 950yd kill I suffered at the hands of a Spitfire tonight.  950yds on HIS FE mind you, on mine he was at D1.4

"Gunnery model OK - yeah sure it is"  

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[This message has been edited by Jekyll (edited 05-16-2000).]

[Toad]

Jek,

Don't know if the film is all there but when I view it I see no hits at 1k.

Film starts with him at 1k and then he immediately pulls up and gets gunned at about 250 yds at the top.

[funked]

Dispersion, that's why your trig doesn't work.