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Offline Pei

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P47 are da bomb - Frenchy I've seen the light
« on: May 26, 2002, 11:17:20 PM »
Well sort of :)
Been playing with the P-47D-11 today and I have to say that the Jug is uber.  There's a true sense of power you get when you boom through a furball at 400mph, hose down some hapless stallfighting spit or niki and then zoom off into the wild blue yonder.

I'm not quite ready to take a Jug and forsake all others but I certainly had my eyes opened.

perk the Jug! :D

Offline Monk

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« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2002, 01:31:43 AM »
"Perk the JUG"


  NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!:eek:

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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2002, 03:51:47 AM »
They perk the Jug and 56th FG will have a tempertantrum.  :D

Unless of course it happens to be an M/N model :D

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« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2002, 04:19:24 AM »
i love the p-47

spraying those eight .50s feels like nailing a bees nest with a fire hose

just turn it on and pour it out and anything caught in the middle is dead.

nice a/c. why cant we have a 109 with eight 50s? ill trade my 30mm for one
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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2002, 04:38:56 AM »
Heh, I think I've heard every one of AH planes called uber.

Well, maybe they are :)

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« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2002, 08:34:47 AM »
I've been having some fun with the D25 this weekend.Always take low ammo load with 6 mg's....You can surprise the hell outta a lot of high p51's,f4u's and FW's.It's a real magnet plane too..just sit back and they come to you...:D
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« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2002, 05:20:39 PM »
Although i'm a Luftwaffe guy i'm still American and love to take an American plane for a spin every once in a while :) I've always loved the P47D-30 since it's like my 190A8 but the P38L is a very VERY VERY nice plane the Americans have :) it's a mixture of everything.  Turn fighter, BnZ fighter, E fighter, Jabo, Bomber killer... :) I love it

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« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2002, 10:54:42 AM »
Hehehe Pei, happy u got some fun in the P47 :cool:  I know of this squad, the 56thFG, they fly P47s :p

The P47 has his strenghts for sure but it's far from ubber. P38 for example, outclasses the P47 in turns/acceleration/speed and climb.

When you limit your flying to B&Zming lower cons, P47 is great. When you are caught lower by a LA7, then it starts to be hairy ... not even talking a yourself vs more fight. Most out accel the P47 or out speed it, and most outturn it. So you always end up making the fast guy who runed you down overshoot and allow the slow turnfighter to catch you and then you end up toasted by one or the other.

I wished the P47 had some canons, it's frustrating when you see 5-7 pings from 400y in a snapshot and see your target keeping flying, when the same thing in a canon plane would have brought instant punition... in the other hand, you have a high rate of fire of "barrage shooting" and a lot of lead.

You just have to love the guy to keep flying it in the MA. When you fly it regularly, you start to get used to it and you furball, and you die :)
I like AH because most planes are "ubber". When I fly a D9, LA7, pony for example, I end up racking up 10 kills in a couple of refuel and still being alive, because I pay attention to what I'm doing. So I think :"Wow, this plane is great! What do they complain about?, how come their regular pilots don't end up with a 30 K/D". :rolleyes:
Dat jugs bro.

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« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2002, 01:24:59 PM »
P-47 is the one and only non-T&B plane that I really dont like to sciscor against when in my 38. :p

The 8X .50's are just too horrible to unleash, I feel sorry when I hit anything with them... it just disintegrates. Oh the nightmares that visit me...

BTW frenchy, how do you have your converge set? When I fly jugs I disperse my gun's convergence..

The outer guns I converge at d300, the inner ones at d600. I've found that if I shoot at close range like that the inner guns almost converge with the outer ones when you hit.. and at long range the outter guns almost always hit the wings of the con im shooting at.. and many times slice them off.

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« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2002, 05:10:38 PM »
just put them all at 300 yds, and wait till you are that close to shoot. Watch him fall apart.
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« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2002, 10:07:41 PM »
I do like Tac does but I set them closer. 400 on down to 300 in incremeants of 25. Its my killing zone. Anything caught in it is meat:D

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