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Offline BenDover

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Question: Guncam and Gear.
« on: July 05, 2003, 01:19:30 PM »
I was watching some documentories about the Battle of Britain today, this documentory contained ALOT of guncam footage but there was something I noticed....

After the plane in front gets shot a few times, he sometimes puts his gear down, was this some sort of universal signal of surrender?
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Offline Furball

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Question: Guncam and Gear.
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2003, 04:46:50 AM »
that, or the a/c got hit in its hydraulic fluid
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Offline _Schadenfreude_

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Re: Question: Guncam and Gear.
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2003, 05:47:05 PM »
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I was watching some documentories about the Battle of Britain today, this documentory contained ALOT of guncam footage but there was something I noticed....

After the plane in front gets shot a few times, he sometimes puts his gear down, was this some sort of universal signal of surrender?


Hydraulics getting hit - I doubt if anyone ever actually thought that lowering gear is going to stop the enemy a/c shooting at them.

If I was on someone's six and about to finish them off why take the risk of letting them try to surrender.
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Offline Arlo

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Question: Guncam and Gear.
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2003, 06:05:51 PM »
#3 in agreement - damage to the gear doors or it's system.
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Offline Furious

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Question: Guncam and Gear.
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2003, 06:19:20 PM »
It was sometimes used a signal for surrender.
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