I showed up late. Got in on the second round. Climbed up. Heck I even rolled late. Anyway, as "fight on" was called, I turned to the nearest bandit, although he had about 1000 feet altitude on me. After the first couple of passes, he blows his E and ends up below me. I'm working the E game, making him think he has a shot while whittling him down to where I can pounce on him (we're at 20k). Then I check my high, high six and I see this thing patrolling the battlefield:
Sure enough, the guy jumps on me, and I have to evade. Switch back to my prey and I'm still on top. Then the high spit comes roaring in again. I break hard, then go back up. Now the spit I was hunting is on my six at 600 yards and closing. I pull to a gentle climb. He follows.
Woosh--whap! He gets whacked hard by this monster. I have to break hard to avoid giving this guy a double play.
He sets up again. I try a couple of flat in plane bunts to force an overshoot, and transition to scissors, then rolling scissors. He's giving me no quarter. I put the nose down to gain speed -- he pulls back and sets up another pass. I shovel towards the terrain. He dives in, I fake a split-ess, yank bank and spiral upwards -- he's hot on my six, but blew more E following me and tops out before I do. I'm on top!
but in a flat spin.
After a couple thousand feet I recover and accelerate to 300 ias. Then I look for the bandit. Here he comes. Just 303s as I take him into a defensive spiral, then back to rolling scissors.
As with all good fights, it ends up on the deck with me losing the tailcone. He spent about 10 minutes climbing back up and got three more kills before the frame was done.
