As he approached the fuselage of his beloved nik1, he wiped the dew off the 7359 painted just below the cockpit and thought lovingly of the 7358 nik1's that came before. Yes, today was a day for the nik1 for he was a knight of Bishlandia! Other pilots perfected skills of BCM and ACM to maneuver their way into having an advantage, or even to get on the tail of an enemy.
Not so for this jouster of the sky! Why learn such ignoble skills when the only true chivalrous way to fight was to look your opponent square in the eye, screaming toward each other at almost 600 kias combined, guns blazing in each others faces? Yes, those side and back shooters were cowards,their methods of killing the enemy utterly lacking in manliness. Face thine enemy or be judged a coward, the pilot thought to himself as he adjusted the garter holding up his stockings 'neath his spandex flight pants. He lithely climbed into the cockpit and began his preflight checklist. He pulled the trigger briefly and was satisfied to see 4 streams of tracers flying away from the nose in 4 different tangents, all the better for hitting those cowardly scum that would avoid his noble head on attacks!