Both of the La's can turn, and stall fight even better, as long as you dont drop a wing I have taken it to 50mph to cause spits to overshoot and stall out trying to get back around, with some throttle flap and rudder work La's are pure killers, though they are very hard to master, and anyone who says they arnt challenging to fly isnt "flying" them at all, IMHO
La's, 51s, and i feel that 47s are all like this. very devastating and destructive in the right hands but you need to learn them before you are effective at all in any of them. P38s too now that i think about it. Spit's, a6ms, hurris, and nikis and ki84s are all easy to learn and although when flown well, can be even more devastating than what i listed prior, are easy to kill even for the newest of flyers
Anyone who lands kills in the Wildcat, not the FM2, but the original F4F has done a tremendous job in my opinion. Saw same guy post a 6 and 5 kill run last night back to back. Pretty impressive.
And the biggest dweeb plane is the P-51D simply because the dweeb pilots will not engage or dogfight. All they do is dive on you while you're on an enemy's 6, fire a burst and climb back into the clouds. To me, this is the equivalent of a sucker punch or steeling an old lady's purse.
so youre saying i did an impressive job by flying the wildcat only to vulch idiots upping at capped bases?
and the P51D is actually takes a bit to learn the ropes of. alot of 51 pilots think it was only good in firing and running when it has alot of qualities that are unused by many of the p51 pilots. a good 51 team even on the deck can devastate multiple enemies. Last night alone my squaddie sector95 landed 5 in a 51B, and i landed 6 in a D. Another squaddie shermo almost made it home with 3. 5 of our collective kills were while rtb and 6 enemies had followed us. Both P51s are excellent planes when correctly flown.
(and honestly no im not bragging our kills in the plane. ik my skills and my squaddies skills in the 51 and im just using statistics to make a point. <S>)
