Only had time for one sortie tonight. Flying Knight, I thought I'd head towards the port we were slowly trying to take. I up a 109 G10, usually I'd take full gas + external tank, but opted to take a bomb to see what kinda dive bomber this thing could be (answer, probably pretty good if I didnt suck!)
Attached is the film....is some sort of loose order, I'm watching out over P36 and spot some cons, carefully picking and choosing which to tangle with. A P51D makes a head on pass on me, and since it takes two to tango, after the pass, snap around to see if he'll make another. He does, and gets lit up with some 30mm. A few minutes later, another P-51 does the same thing and gets a free skydiving lesson. Score, 2 kills. Kill 3, I have no idea how I got, I beleive it was a 109 that I fired a few shots at, and perhaps did more damage than I thought...or, the pilot may have simply crashed upon landing. Dunno.
Fun part. I'm hearing on the vox that our guys are near the field, so I'm looking out for our goon. Well I see a dot low...its a goon, but not one of ours. I'm down to just the measly machine guns on the G10 now and head over with a small parade of cons behind me. To summarize, and the film shows, this guy took complete advantage of his slow speed and manuverability. I managed to get a few stray shots on him, but nothing to write home about. With just MG rounds, I was trying to hit either his cockpit or blow out his tail. I'm not sure what his damage was, but he indicated he had "pilot wounded" (after the joust) so perhaps he stalled/spun and passed out, thus augering....because I really dont think I did enough damage.
Oh, and lastly...I was on vapor (you know how the G10 sips gas...
) And glided my plane to a Vbase, managed to fit under the tent, and exit with the kills!
Here's the film...3mb
http://www.checksix.net/film6.ahfYes, you can say you witnessed a buff dweeb fly a 4 kill sortie now. Them single engine jobbies are kinda fun
