How about a "suprise" this time...

[A8TOOL]

they should mayhaps be transferred to the wishlist?

[SlapShot]

Slap - I think the problem is that the towers keep your head positions but don't rotate them to match the airfields' rotation relative to the map. 

 

[SlapShot]

i'm confused? backpressure would pitch the nose up? so if anything, they should go high?

Back pressure would imply positive Gs ... your nose is higher (in an instant) than when you pulled the trigger which would then make it look like you are shooting lower.

The more Gs you pull trying to get "lead" means more "lead" on the target.
 

[CAP1]

Back pressure would imply positive Gs ... your nose is higher (in an instant) than when you pulled the trigger which would then make it look like you are shooting lower.

The more Gs you pull trying to get "lead" means more "lead" on the target.
 

ok....now i got it.....although you would actually be shooting higher, it would appear lower......i'll go grab something to drink.......maybe i'll think straighter then. 

[SlapShot]

ok....now i got it.....although you would actually be shooting higher, it would appear lower......i'll go grab something to drink.......maybe i'll think straighter then. 

yes .... it "appears" because it is true, your are truly shooting lower until your nose can equal the true lead of your target and the offset of the Gs you are pulling.

Think of this ...

You got the garden hose in hand and there is a squirrel at the bottom of a very tall tree.

As the squirrel scrambles up the tree you shoot where he was and adjust upward to his position as he moves up the tree ... the water will always appear (and is) shooting lower on the tree, relative to the squirrel, than where the nozzle is pointed. This will be true until you get the nozzle pointed higher than where the squirrel is traveling on the tree (true lead).

Now throw in a situation where both you and the squirrel are moving ...

Whatever your drinking ... I'll have one.

[Furball]

Or a perk Jeep!

[SlapShot]

What is sitting on that jeep ? 

[Furball]

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeep_man/sasjeep.htm

The jeeps were heavily armed with combinations of both Browning and Vickers K machine guns. The ex-aircraft Vickers weapons were generally mounted in pairs and a total of up to five machine guns were carried on some vehicles. The effectiveness of this armament firing a mix of ball, armour-piercing and tracer shells can be judged from one assault on an airfield where 12 aircraft were destroyed in a five minute raid. With all guns blazing a single SAS jeep could deliver an impressive 5000 rounds per minute! The net result was that over 400 aircraft had been destroyed on the ground by November 1942. Stirling was finally captured in 1943 but escaped four times before being sent to Colditz where he spent the rest of the war.

[SlapShot]

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeep_man/sasjeep.htm

Wow ... the original desert "Rat Patrol" !!!

[phatzo]

I haven't seen the rat patrol in over 30 years, is it still out there somewhere?

[Oldman731]

I haven't seen the rat patrol in over 30 years, is it still out there somewhere?

You're in the early stages of dementia.  Otherwise you would be happy NOT to know how to find old episodes of that dreadful series.

- oldman

[RumbleB]

You know what a great surprise would be?

The patch being released before I get bored and unsubscribe.

[Clone155]

I like surprises. But if I don't get a surprise at least twice a year, I throw a hissy fit 

[Motherland]

For all 50 cals to shoot the same

All American .50 cals shoot the same... it's all a matter of mounting and perception.

Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind them

They are...

[10thmd]

That my friend is a M-2 Browning .50cal. Nice sights on it to.