Umm .. you know why Heater is called that?
Ask him sometime -evil grin-
And yes ..Heater has called HT a Putz now and then.
HT earned the title many times
ie: AW scenario ..we were the Luftwaffe and had earned enough points to fly 262's !! ..
..so 4 of our best got the rides. JJ, HT, Twist, and I.
262 is an awesome ride ..but .. you talk of breaking up escorts of 16 Mustangs with two of us and engaging the buffs with the other two
after the 109's and Wulf's have thinned 'em as best they could ..and the damn Mustangs had our 262 bases camped.. it was no cake walk
So.. HT and I get first in and take on the high escort ..we go head on at 32k and I *know* the Mustang is struggling at that alt.
I tell HT to ease nose up, 4g max when we are 5k out ..we zoom .. past 44k, punch out flaps over the top, retract as nose drops in the backside of the loop..
..and there the Stangs are ..some fallin in their stalls, some spinning ..a few circling having not taken our rope a dope move.
..we line up on targets as our speed comes back ..HT and I both score two and the rest scattered as we blow thru and down and out.
The intercept was as far from our bases as we could push it.
We both flamed out near 30k alt otw back to our capped bases.
I kept nose low for speed, blasted across field, high g barrel rolled onto final.
Mustangs were all diving in as we had just blown thru them at speed.
HT stalled and spun in on final.
I greased the jet in and got her stopped and got out as the Stangs came pouring in.
Did I mention if we crashed or got shot down we were done? The plane was marked off what we had available?
There were no more 262's .. all we got were 4.
HT spun in.. on final.
All by himself.
Putz.
-just sayin (tm Pasha)
-Frank aka GE
