Originally posted by Apache
Poopy and I are winging together last night as per our usual. We each spy our first targets for the night...in we go. I pop a tiffy, he nails an La7 about a second later. Poop says "How can this NOT be fun?"
Two 15 year old boys are whacking off behind the school bicycle sheds. One says to the other "How can this
NOT be fun?". Indeed, but most boys grow out of this and then discover that there ARE better things. It just takes some boys half their lives to find out. And the moral of the story? What we've always known - All furballers are bananas. Muhahahahahaha!
Just kidding, guys, just kidding.
Furball all you want.
I am always interested to see 109 films, and appreciate all the info I can get. Urchin has come up with some
great stuff, and Grunherz has supplied an impressive 13 victory film. We hear a lot of talk about how the 109 "dictates the fight" etc., but as I look over my own stats for the past 3-4 tours, I see that I generally get killed by 109s only once or twice each tour. Not very impressive for a plane that supposedly dictates the terms of a fight. The exception was tour 39 in which I was killed by a 109G10 10 times - more than any other fighter! I think I must have been gangbanged or vulched. In any event, tour 39 was just a blip of the statistics.
In tour 36 I got 140 kills in a G10, and 37 deaths, so almost 4-1. Even so, I've never been fully comfortable with 109s. It always feels as if I'm flying
someone else's plane.
Looks like Viper was carrying gondolas in the first film, a sortie in which he got 5-6 kills. Yep, not unlike one of my own 109G10 sorties. I don't see the G10 as much of a 1v1 plane; its elevator is just too damn sluggish. Viper knows this: At time 5:26 into the first film, Viper is chasing down a 110. It makes a break turn to the left, and Viper wisely aborts the pursuit and avoids wasting E. This one situation amply demonstrates all three of the 109G10's major weaknesses in the space of a few seconds: Roll rate too slow, elevator too sluggish, and lack of ability to get deflection shot on target. If instead of a 109G10 Viper had been in an F4U, he could have rolled hard and fast, pulled through with the elevator to position the pipper just above the target, and got a wide angle deflection shot. But like Viper, I'm finding that those 109Gs are good sneak planes, and good for chasing/zooming up on targets that are themselves zooming up. The 109G10 is so good at this that even I was once able to kill a 163 just like that.
Pepino. 
I think I'll make a cup of tea, and then sit back to watch Viper's second film.
