Pop quiz. Hangtime's on your 6....(pics)

[Regurge]

...and you're in a 190a8 with no ailerons.

What do you do?
 


Answer:

You run, and run, and run some more,
 

And when you're out of gas you loop back on him and HO his ass.
 


That was one hell of a chase. I was attacking a19 when ack took my left aileron off. Hang shows up in an f6f and I manage to dive, jink, and accelerate out to 1100 yards. I'm literally typing "neener neener neener" in the buffer when pingpingpingcraaak...right aileron is gone. Now the only way I can keep from rolling over is to use the rudder, and trying to turn with it slows me down bigtime.

Luckily a nearby friendly comes by and gets him to break off. As I run out of gas I manage to loop around and get pointed in his general direction. But the a-hole won't take the HO. My last chance for victoy gone, I grab a few hundred feet, bail, and hope that island is closer than it looks.

When Hang says he hates 190s, he aint kiddin!
Must have chased me for 30 miles at least.

<S> freakish fights like that are a blast  

[Peeradow]

Main arena? External view?

Pirado

[Wardog]

Pirado..

I know ya havent been out of it that long..

Film, then replay film and take screen shots.

Dog out......

[Sandman_SBM]

I thought Hangtime was still down... a victim of a nefarious cat.

Is Hang back?

[Sandman_SBM]

 

Originally posted by Wardog:
Pirado..

I know ya havent been out of it that long..

Film, then replay film and take screen shots.

Dog out......

Last I checked, you can't get screenshots like this from the MA.

[Dead Man Flying]

 

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM:
Last I checked, you can't get screenshots like this from the MA.

Sure you can.  Just film your mission, then exit the MA and go to the film viewer.  All views are enabled in the film viewer, so you can take some wonderful screenshots of the action from a variety of angles.  That's all that was done here.

-- Todd/DMF

[SFRT - Frenchy]

pingpingpingcraaak...

Uh oh! I have a trade mark on it, please respect it  

Fun story Regurge, enjoyed it   thx

[hblair]

Cool story gurge!

Kill hang!  

[AKDejaVu]

If I suspect Hangtime is that enemy plane behind me.. slowly creeping up on me.. I just type "Hang.. what's hairball up to?".  Maneuver kill on hang every time

AKDejaVu

[hblair]

lol deja!

[Sandman_SBM]

 

Originally posted by Dead Man Flying:
Sure you can.  Just film your mission, then exit the MA and go to the film viewer.  All views are enabled in the film viewer, so you can take some wonderful screenshots of the action from a variety of angles.  That's all that was done here.

-- Todd/DMF

Hehe.... like I said... you can't get this view in the MA. You have to exit.

[Hangtime]

LOL! that was a fun ride... I was inna F6F running defense off the CV at a19 when this started.. and I'd been "regurged' on the previos sotrie; so I went back 'lookin' fer that 190. He B&Z's away merrily, knockin a few more bish down while I tagged along d1.5 behind in the reverses; out to D3 on his dives.. never could close him up.. fargin F6F ain't got no leggs.

Whups.. the 190 makes a slight bo-bo.. while cutting inside a bish evading him, he got close enuff for me to latch on and as he extended away I started 'sniping'. Brief bursts, hoping the pings would get that damn 190 to turn, or at least make something important fall off..

He gets out to d1.1 on my FE, sometimes I get him down to 800 yards.. and tap him again.   I keep eyballing the map and the gas guage... looks like one of us will be swimmin back.   I know I've done serious dmage.. I figure I've nailed the rudder and the elevator at least, mebbe wounded the pilot. I continue the pursuit.

Ahha.. help arrives.. a lone F4, he sweeps in fast for a tail shot; I do a rollaway, and let him roar by; toss a few rounds his way and continue after the 190... and lo and behold; the 190 is reversing! I think "Hey.. he was off fscott-free, and came back to help the f4.. a shame ta kill this guy.." He's got scrap metal fer a plane and came back to support the f4.. <S!>

I get to him a mite late in is sluggish reversal and the f4's close on behind me.. I get to guns range with the 190 and find he's lined up for a HO, so I jink away; fend off another attack from the F4 and get back on the 190 just in time to see him bail.

The f4 grabbs away on another zoom, and he types... "LOL I ain't gonna dogfight ya hang" and heads on back towards a19. "sheeseh.. now I get ta chase this one all the way BACK.."

Then the fates intervene; my radial coughs and dies... and while gliding down for the ditch the F4 comes back fer another pass.. win one; lose one.  Just another day in the MA.  

Nice flyin Regurge, I was cursin' my poor grumman fer a pony the whole time you were B&Z'ng the defenders at 19.. very smooth flying, and was a wonderful demonstration on the formidable lethality of a 190 at the top of it's speed curve in competent hands. <S!>


 
 

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