Last night I was playing on the Baltic map and decided to take a 262 out for a spin.
There had been a pretty good fight going between the Bish and the Nits in the NW corner of the map so I headed toward the Nit base.
I like to fly the 262 at around 10K to start so I'm between the high guys and the low guys and the bases in that corner of Baltic are around 4K so I was flying at 14K when I got to the Nit base.
So I'm cuising along near 500 mph at 14K looking around, dipping a wing to see what's below me when I spot a 110 just off the runway and almost directly below me. I chop throttle and dive in.
I get close, fire a shot and try to pull out. Uh Oh.
Quick to the trim tabs I trim elevator all the way up. The nose starts to respond as I brace for the inevitable. I hear a noise.
I'm climbing again!
I check the damage and my left engine is gone.
I must have whacked the ground with it! I can't even blame it on a tree because I was headed to an open area.
I think the other engine was also damaged as I couldn't hold more than 325 mph in level flight after that and when I did land I couldn't shut it off. At least I got it home.
Man I wish I filmed my sorties. I'd like to see that one close up.