« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: p38L  (Read 321 times)

Offline captain1ma

  • Aces High CM Staff
  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 14720
      • JG54 website
p38L
« on: June 10, 2010, 10:18:38 PM »
on the runway or taking off with slight back elevator, when shooting with tracers on, it looks like its firing from behind you. did it in the TA and in the late war
Logged

Offline Guppy35

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 20386
Re: p38L
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2010, 10:53:14 PM »
Shhh!  Secret SAPP modification.  It took a lot of bottles of scotch to get those rear guns.
Logged
Dan/CorkyJr
8th FS "Headhunters

Offline captain1ma

  • Aces High CM Staff
  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 14720
      • JG54 website
Re: p38L
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2010, 02:41:43 PM »
 :D
Logged

Offline Ack-Ack

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 25260
      • FlameWarriors
Re: p38L
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2010, 04:16:57 PM »
It's on optical illusion.  The guns are nose mounted so you're basically flying through the tracer smoke streams and since the smoke trails don't dissipate immediately, it appears as though the tracers are coming from behind you giving it the appearance you describe.

ack-ack
Logged
"If Jesus came back as an airplane, he would be a P-38." - WW2 P-38 pilot
Elite Top Aces +1 Mexican Official Squadron Song
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »