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Offline atlau

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #30 on: March 31, 2018, 10:14:23 AM »
Yeah but the 262 outturns the 190a8 :)))

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #31 on: March 31, 2018, 02:12:50 PM »
Yeah but the 262 outturns the 190a8 :)))

Now that's funny right there!

My bet is going to be the 190D or the P51.
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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #32 on: April 05, 2018, 08:19:14 AM »
Mosquito.
Sure it is slower, but disrespect is your greatest weapon  :D

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Offline Groth

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #33 on: April 25, 2018, 06:43:47 PM »
 Disrespect IS your best weapon...was on deck in Boston, 262 came down, got slow :) Sorry slightly reverse of topic.

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #34 on: April 25, 2018, 08:17:32 PM »
Mosquito.
Sure it is slower, but disrespect is your greatest weapon  :D

Starting around 3:50
https://youtu.be/RGOWswdzGQs

Nice video work there.  Did you get any hate mail telling you it was impossible for a Mosquito to shoot down a 262? 
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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #35 on: April 25, 2018, 11:10:40 PM »
Nice video work there.  Did you get any hate mail telling you it was impossible for a Mosquito to shoot down a 262? 
(That may be a can of worms best left unopened.)

Certainly the bomber version couldn't.

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2018, 06:22:45 AM »
Certainly the bomber version couldn't.



Not counting the current year, the Mosquito B.XVI has 14 registered MA kills on the Me 262  :D
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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #37 on: April 26, 2018, 02:33:19 PM »
Killed two 262s in one pass.  One was low and another climbing.  Came in with smash killed the low one first.  Went vertical on a 262 that was climbing away got him also.

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #38 on: April 26, 2018, 03:22:45 PM »


Not counting the current year, the Mosquito B.XVI has 14 registered MA kills on the Me 262  :D

Pretty sure one of those was me.  I was doing a pass on a formation and the drones warped back into position as I was flying through, ended up taking me out.   :noid
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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #39 on: April 26, 2018, 03:34:19 PM »
Did some checking and over the last eleven years, these are the fighters flown that vanquished an Me-262:

KI84 (3)
P38G (3)
C205 (2)
190A8 (2)
109G6
109G14
F4U1
F6F
Ki61
La7
Mossie
Me410
P39D
P40E
P40F
P40N
Yak7b
Yak9T


My favorite part is three different P-40s!   Just need one in the C model now.  :)
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Offline atlau

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #40 on: April 26, 2018, 11:28:12 PM »
Id be willing to bet that over 11 years just about every plane has gotten a kill/proxy on a 262...

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Re: best plane to bounce a 262
« Reply #41 on: April 27, 2018, 08:07:02 AM »
Probably true.  Those were just my personal stats, hence the odd 11 year time frame.  Was interesting reading other's anecdotes, so thought I'd chime in.
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 To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late.
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