I had just been typing about how not smart it was for us to attack a 13k base from a low one without a lot more help when I hear on squad channel "...Fester just killed me in a 51". I am thinking to myself "Damn and here I am in a stupid 202"
I think nothing more about it then a few minutes later I look over my left wing and see a 51 zooming right underneath me from left to right perpendicular to my flight path. ( I think he was trying to sneak a shot at me while I was on auto pilot) He only has a few thousand feet under him, so I am thinking to myself, maybe just maybe... Hell I was on my 6th beer so I drop on in on him to see what happens. The 51 does a good scissors but I was determined not to let him make me overshoot. Rather than try to saddle up on his 6 at such high speed, I pull up gently up (to save my E) while rolling over him in my up view. I don't think he saw me do that because he continues the scissors, so now I am feeling encouraged - and he is getting slow. I roll over onto his 6 again and he pulls sharply up, I pull less sharply and go for a bit of a snap shot and get some hits. Careful not to pull g's I continue a higher loop and again find myself on his 6 - we are gettign a lot slower now and we are at about 600 yards separation. He is in a gentle dive for the canyon rim I am closing. I know if he makes it clean to the canyon he is goign to get away, I figure those 2 303's I have might be useful for something so I pull off a series of short bursts hopefully plinking him enough to make him manuver. We are right at the canyon rim now and I am too close for him to try for a dive. He does a break turn left back towards the canyon wall and pulls up a bit - then his plane starts doing a wierd gyration thing (sort of spins and tumbles in place for a moment). I pull of a few more hits 303's adding in a my few 50 caliber once i was really close. I loop up and over again as he tries to turn left as hard as he can, now probably thinking about diving for the canyon floor. I get my BB guns on him again, a good canopy shot this time - he loses control and goes boom into the canyon wall. Narrowly squeaking over the canyon rim myself I look at the message buffer and see the kill message.
When you are lucky enough to find a 1v1 the 202 is a really fun plane that opponents underestimate badly. You won't get as many kills, but the kills you get are much more enjoyable. If it turns out you get somebody like fester, hell that's grounds for a new national holiday
