Best Attack Position to Kill Bombers

[Gabriel]

low six oclock with little or no overtake speed

[thndregg]

low six oclock with little or no overtake speed

That might be true for bombers with no ball turret.

[TnDep]

Thanks Guys Great Advise! 

[Steve]

Historically it seems head on or 10-2 from above worked the best.  People espouse it in here too. I get pretty much right on top of them,  and shoot them in the canopy(HEAD SHOT)
 The attack ends up being a near vert/slightly 6 attack.  People may tell you this is no good. I can post the stats that shows it works just fine for me and I fly a 51:  neither particularly lethal nor sturdy a plane.

Here's a couple of screenies from a person who thought my technique was bad:

[TnDep]

looks like he was wrong  I think I saw his other two planes go down 

[Lusche]

That might be true for bombers with no ball turret.

And it works only if the total lag is very small. The bigger the lag is, the smaller the blind spot not covered by the tail gun is getting:




While on my screen I am out of the tail gunner's arc of fire, I'm not on the Lancaster's screen - so he can still shoot at me.
That's why low 6 attacks are usually a no-go for me.

[infowars]

Historically it seems head on or 10-2 from above worked the best.  People espouse it in here too. I get pretty much right on top of them,  and shoot them in the canopy(HEAD SHOT)
 The attack ends up being a near vert/slightly 6 attack.  People may tell you this is no good. I can post the stats that shows it works just fine for me and I fly a 51:  neither particularly lethal nor sturdy a plane.

Here's a couple of screenies from a person who thought my technique was bad:

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That is freaking hilarious....   

[mechanic]

Belly shot works ok if you have enough speed and they have no ball turret. If they have a belly gunner it's head on or slashing frontal attacks for me.

[bj229r]

If you can hit B24's in cockpit area, from even above and behind, they flame/explode every time, with an economy of bullets

[Bear76]

I always prefer to be on top

[CAP1]

always above them, by at least 3,000ft.

 depending on what it is, i'll pull up to their 2 or 10, roll into a shallow dive pointing my nose ahead of them. fire when they appear about to cross my path, continue underneath them, turning slightly to parallel them again during my climb. repeat and rinse.

 sometimes, i'll come from their 4 or 8 high, but the same slashing attacks. i find this one gives me a little more time to aim, while not seriously increasing their ease of hitting me.


 one of my very favorites though? if i've only spotted em when they're near their drop point, i'll wait'll i see them in the approximate drop position. here, they're more than likely in the bombsite, calibrating. they cannot return fire from this position. i'll make a quick slashing attack, and if no return fire as i pass, i'll saddle up, and pop one from dead six. 

[CAP1]

That might be true for bombers with no ball turret.

actually, lancs can point their tail guns very low. to be out of their fire, you'd have to be under the lanc...thus having no gun solution yourself.

[RoGenT]

Being I usually fly the pony (thinking of flying spit8 when i return though) I usually go high 2,10, 12 oclock (12 isn't really ideal though) since the 50s are really the best of buff busters. But like several said, the noodlespit and wingroots are the best. Now and then I will just be silly and aim for all the engines.

[CAP1]

Being I usually fly the pony (thinking of flying spit8 when i return though) I usually go high 2,10, 12 oclock (12 isn't really ideal though) since the 50s are really the best of buff busters. But like several said, the axlespit and wingroots are the best. Now and then I will just be silly and aim for all the engines.

i just aim for the big things in front of me with wings

[pervert]

Some great tips here I generally suck at shooting down bombers one technique i have had a lot of success with in a k4 is diving under and in front of the bombers and then pulling hard up for a full profile wing shot and popping a few 30mm in the wing, timing it so I'm nearly colliding with the bombers wing. The wing on the bomber will nearly always come off, I'll have to give some of the other suggestions on this a go