(this is related to WB but should be of interest around here as well)
Just working on some WW2 vet pilot material.
A videoclip shows how mr. Valdemar Estama is looking how Lart/Icebreakers is flying WarBirds.
P-39 in sight..
Didn't the ruskies have these? Yes, I thought I recognized this, I thought they looked like this back then too... P-39 Airacobra, right?He was able to recognize WB P-39 from a monitor as one of his past adversaries from the 1940s.
Yup
Discussion & flying continued. A P-51 eats it.
Mustang... I met one of these once. I first thought it was an Airacobra but it didn't have that kind of hump Airacobra had, it had instead that clump below, cooler. And I thought it was somewhat long under the fuselage... Another hit, mr. Estama recognized WarBirds Mustang.
There's a longer story how he met two Mustangs once
Later :-)
Also, an interesting bit that relates how much more challenging scenarios with LOW ID RANGES are. How much more real life.
Once I came out of cloud, in Messerchmitt. And two russian planes right front of me, in slight angle. They were right in the "spike" (finnish term to have nme ac perfectly aimed) and I thought that I will just "blow" through and shoot both down. And then, what the toejam, no markings. Just black lumps of planes and no markings. What the damn planes are they?
What if they are germans? We had germans in the area at that time. I throttled up a bit and flew right side to them, 20 meters. And there, under the oil and dirt, red stars. I could see them only that near. Then they saw me and dived downwards. I first thought "let them go", then tried chasing a bit - and got red flashing light, running out of gas and we're heading for St. Peterburg/Leningrad - not going there now. Let them go... And one very interesting bit I found today from the recordings.
A Yak-9 had gotten a shot at him, engine damagedand Estama had to enter a fast dive to break free. The interesting bit is not his speed, 950 kilometers/hour (!!!) ;-)
but...
I couldn't get it to vertical otherwise but trimming. I kept trimming the plane while diving, and when I felt (in feet!) that engine is not burning anymore, and looked at mirror and saw there is no more black smoke coming from plane, I started to level the plane.He managed to level the plane by cutting throttle (he was revving 100% downwards vertical!) and then bit by bit getting nose up by the trim. Level at 1000 meters.
It was a long time... And eyes blacked outTo me the mention of
mirror was new. He had mirror showing backwards in 109 G-6. Interessssting.
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