Originally posted by davidpt40
Ok, to get an objective opinion I will write this from a 3rd person perspective-
Your sitting above a Rook base in your hot air balloon. Below are about 10 Rook planes: La7s, typhoons, spits, and hurricanes. Theres also about 4 valiant Knight attackers. The Knights dive down from about 8k and start attacking the airbase along with the Rooks.
All of a sudden you see a Knight P-51, piloted by an extremely skilled aviator, zoom down on the base. He opens fire on a Rook aircraft and it disentegrates. He then proceeds to strafe not one, but TWO 20mm anti-aircraft guns.
Hes now mixed up in a tight furball with a La7, a spit, and a hurricane. The mustang pilot kills the La7 with whom hes scissoring very tightly. But as soon as he does, a Rook Hurricane2c comes along and HOs him. The mustang pilot tries to evade but takes several 20mm shells in the engine. To his horror, he watches as his prop slows to a complete stop. Yet hes not finished yet! A spitfire comes at him from 10:00 high, firing 20mm and 50 cals. The spit misses, and our 51 pilot fires a snapshot, sending the filthy rook to his death.
So now our hero is in a predicament. Altitude is 200ft AGL, airpseed is 120 and dropping fast. So he drops full flaps and gear, and decides to set it down. Just when he thinks hes out of danger, a Focke-Wulf 190D (rarest of the rare planes), being piloted by Adolph Hitler himself, comes along and saddles up on the P-51s six. The FW pilot can clearly see that the P51 has lowered his flaps, extended his gear, and is dead-stick. Yet he fires hundreds of 20mm high explosive shells into the P51, blowing off the wings of the mustang and sending its heroic pilot to his death.
So which is it worse to be, a vulcher, or someone who kills heros while they are trying to crash land?
The whole story seem quite contrived ...
I can go for the scissors death on the La-7, but when a C-Hurri sends several (cannon) shells into your engine area, there is usually a large explosion that follows.
The HO was probably a high deflection shot too, otherwise this incredible hero should/would have send a stream of .50 cals into him ... no mention of that.
BUT ... I would imagine at this point the P51 is REAL slow and the C-Hurri turns like a Spit, so why was there enough time for a Spit to take a shot at the hero, miss, and the P51 get a brilliant snapshot on the Spit all before the C-Hurri turns and lights his bellybutton up ?
AND ... still, amongst all that has transpired, the P51 has the speed to stay aloft long enough for a 190D to saddle up on his six and fire HUNDREDS of cannon rounds into the P51 before sending the hero to his death ... and the C-Hurri is still not in the fight picture.
Bottom line ... If its red ... its dead.
