Yes Mrsid, I can understand your frustration there- but that isn't the N1K killing you. Or rather, any plane in that situation can kill you. As an example, I was in the MA yesterday in a 109g10. I was just tooling around over a friendly base that was under a heavy attack by the rooks. There were 6 to 7 enemy planes chasing me just about the whole time I was flying over the base. Eventually, the majority of them got bored when they captured the base and stopped chasing me around. So I turned and started to go home (and I'm at 20k or so). I was thinking what a boring sortie that had been, when a co-alt Spit makes a run on me. I dodged his HO pass, leaving him chasing me about 2.5k back once he turned around. I came across a frienly getting chased around by an F6F and a Spit. Against my better judgement, I dive down to help him out. The Spit on my tail follows me down. In the ensuing dogfight, the Spit on my countrymans tail goes down (gotta love 30mm), and like 6 new enemies start piling on. I decided discretion was the better part of valor and head for home, with 4 spits on my tail. The farthest one is about 4k back, the closest is about 1.2 back and spraying for all he is worth. I'm hauling bellybutton home at 400 mph when I look back and see yet another Spit diving on me. He is gaining real fast, so I let him get within 800 yards, chop throttle and pull up hard into a barrel roll. As he overshot, I got a real good look at him. It was either a Spit I or a Spit V- but he had a significant altitude advantage on me that he had converted into about 450 mph of speed.
I've dove on La7s in a 110 and caught them. It isnt all about top speed, but what your top speed is in a certain situation. And yes, I agree with you that getting gangbanged sucks ass, but there is nothing you can do about it in our brave new arena.
