Last night myself and a couple of squaddies decide to do a general-purpose jabo run in heavy Mustangs. We launch, climb to 15k, cruise to target, then make our high-speed run-in. They put their ordinance on the town and various targets and I try to put mine on a shore battery (miss with both bombs and most missiles) and swing around to strafe the town.
By now I've got a P-38 chasing me, with miscellaneous Bishops upping from the field and circling around. I've lost vis of my squaddies and assume that they're dead. I sweep over the town and level the church with my guns while the P-38 takes some long-range sniper shots at me. He pings me but the Mustang is still controllable so I sweep over the airfield, picking off a Spitfire on the runway. Up ahead I spot a Hurri C on climb-out, about d3.0 away and above me. I'm in the guy's blind spot and closing quickly, but I figure that the P-38 will toggle the "Check 6" key and warn him that I'm coming. Nope. He doesn't even wiggle. I squeeze for all guns and the Hurri's tail pops off.
The Hurri had been at about 5k alt so he's got a ways to drop. I can only imagine what he was typing in his radio buffer. Its not like the P-38 didn't see what was going to happen, and its not like there weren't enough other Bishops airborne to see it coming, either. Or maybe I'm just that good.
That P-38 did end up shooting me down when I reversed back to take another swipe at the field. He cut off my angle and got some cannon in my wings. But at least I got a building and 2 kills, so I was still "in the black" on that flight.
