Author Topic: If you wanna kill an N1K2.... (Read 715 times)

Bluedog · « **Reply #30 on:** July 23, 2002, 08:25:38 PM »

Keep the fight in the vertical plane and the F4F/FM2 is no threat.

Blue

bozon · « **Reply #31 on:** July 23, 2002, 08:36:01 PM »

the FM2 will happily turn with anything but zekes (and even with them it can turn a little and better at high speeds).
I was amazed in my first encounter with a spit5, when the guy was pulling the stick into his belly and I was turning inside him without even the stall buzzer going off.

it's a kind of an american zeke - made of iron instead of paper and with standard 0.5 guns.

Bozon

KG45 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 23, 2002, 09:32:12 PM »

had to drive the FM2 on a jabo mission.

as i was 'trying' to do evasives to avoid ack after a strafing pass on the city, i noticed the roll rate on this plane can be measured with a calender!

SKurj · « **Reply #33 on:** July 24, 2002, 01:40:35 PM »

FM2 is a great field deacker...

take rockets, hit 6 acks then use guns on the last few

SKurj

Montezuma · « **Reply #34 on:** July 24, 2002, 02:20:52 PM »

I also got a 262 with a FM2. That little sucker can easily reach 500+ in a dive.

Use the external views check out the animation for the landing gear sometime, very impressive.

bowser · « **Reply #35 on:** July 29, 2002, 07:40:11 PM »

With all these different planes that can "demolish" a Nik, how did it ever get it's uber rep?

bowser

akak · « **Reply #36 on:** July 29, 2002, 07:59:29 PM »

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Originally posted by bowser
With all these different planes that can "demolish" a Nik, how did it ever get it's uber rep?

bowser

Probably from some dweeb that got shot down repeatedly by a Niki and whined about in the message boards and it took a life of its own after that. Probably the same dweeb that started the 'uber' La7 nonsense too.

Ack-Ack

Shuckins · « **Reply #37 on:** July 29, 2002, 09:17:42 PM »

A popular legend stated that the F6F was designed specifically to fight the Zero. Preliminary design work on the Hellcat actually began as early as February, 1938 and was an attempt to upgrade the performance of the Wildcat to bring it up to the level of designs emerging in Europe.

The FM-2, on the other hand, WAS designed to give the Navy a version of the Wildcat with performance closer to that of the Zero. Five hundred pounds was stripped from the airframe and the engine. With 150 extra horsepower the little FM-2's performance now exceeded that of the Zero 52's at low level. Performance varied at different altitudes, in both speed and rate of climb. Rate of roll was identical at speeds of 184mph and under, but the FM-2 was superior at higher speeds. Turns were very similar, with a slight advantage in favor of the Zero 52. The Zero could gain one turn in eight at 10,000 ft. (Technical Air Intelligence flight test data gathered from comparisons with captured Zero 52 at NAS Patuxent River, July 1944.)

Regards, Shuckins

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #38 on:** July 29, 2002, 11:22:19 PM »

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Originally posted by bowser
With all these different planes that can "demolish" a Nik, how did it ever get it's uber rep?

LW