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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Honch on November 25, 2003, 05:24:21 PM
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This Friday night (November 28th) I'm trying to get as many BBS viewers as I can to fly P40s . . just for the hell of it. I think it would be a riot to flood the Main Arena with the highly underestimated Uber Army Plane.
Anyways, I think the Nomads (and my other squad whatever they are called) will be eager to do something pointless like this. If any of you other guys have a twisted sense of humor like us, I suspect you may have fun.
To everyone else - I suggest you take a 262 and shoot us all down!
If yer willing to give "Honch's Night of 1000 P40s" a try, I'll see ya there this Friday starting at 9:00pm est.
A word of warning: If you are not a P40 driver, be prepared for unusually long flight times. What would normally only be a single beer flight to a furball may now take 2 or 3 beers . . so stock up your refrigerators accordingly.
-S-
- Honch
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I really don't know why the P-40 has the stigma of being an out of date fighter and being considered more of a novelty than one of the 'premier' fighters in the game. After all, there were more P-40 aces in the PTO than there where P-51 and P-47 aces combined and the four P-51 aces in the PTO, two became aces in the P-40 before transitioning to the P-51. Only the P-38 was flown by more aces than the P-40 (in the PTO by USAAF).
ack-ack
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i found it to be about equal (with the 2x.50 cal load) to the fm2 during my squad's last "dweeb week"
for those of you not in the know we fly LW only except the first week of each quarter (after scores reset) ie: first week in april, july, october, january.
the only reason i didn't fly it more is i have a Fascination with blue planes and CV battles.. they are soo fast & furious so fm2 / seafire / Chog are planes of choice for me LOL
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
I really don't know why the P-40 has the stigma of being an out of date fighter and being considered more of a novelty than one of the 'premier' fighters in the game.
Tactics, m'boy, tactics!
-- Todd/Leviathn
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This weekend I flew the P-40E for the first time in many months. Two sorties, killed 8, lost none. It's a decent fighter as long as you manage your speed carefully. It'll dive with anything and almost out-climb a ruptured Bluejay....
My regards,
Widewing
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Originally posted by Widewing
... It'll dive with anything ...
thats actually what has bothered me about it.
you know the shimmy or shake in other planes that you achieve when reaching critical speed?
that does not exist in the p40's or f4f/fm2 ?!?!?!
try it. load the old dueling arena ofline and take off at the 15k base. climb to 20k then WEP nose straight down. you will never get "the shakes" and be able to pull out 90% of the time
actually HTC is the vmax speed modeled in those planes (ie wings rip off at certain speed like 650mph or something?)?!?!?
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Does this mean you guys are in for Friday?
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Knowing that any Ni sponsored event is sure to be filled with ewes and good times, alas, I'll be at work. SOE has a policy of no rest for the wicked.
ack-ack
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LOL Ack-Ack, sorry to hear that. You seem to be a real P40 fan. Check my stats - I am too!
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Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
Tactics, m'boy, tactics!
-- Todd/Leviathn
Tactics??? What is this 'tactics' you speak of? Some new sort of hack?
ack-ack
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BTW honch ... wasn't it you i was "fighting" in the emil vs your p40 last night?
or was it someone else?
if so <> bro it was fun while it lasted!!!!
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Yea JB73 that was me. I would have really enjoyed a fair fight vs a 109E. I recall fighting 2 Typhoons and your base ack then that 109 came in that I just couldn't shake off of my 6 for anything.
Good flying! -S-
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If nothing else is going on Fri. night, I'll log on and fly a P-40. :)
TBolt
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You talkin' P40B or P40E?
Not sure if I'll be back in town or not, but heck, I might give it a shot. The last time I had success in the P-40E was when I was doing base defense over my own field at less than 10k. Bagged several Spitfires as they tried to outturn me. Since they were coming in from above my head, they had too much speed to make a tight turn, so I'd cut'em off at the pass and drill'em with all six .50cals. :D
Other than that, the P-40E is just too slow for any long-range stuff unless there's a good show on the tv to watch during transit.
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Just exactly what is this P-40 you speak of?
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I'm in!! I like to fly the p51 because I feel I look sexy as I perform my regular "stunts of stupidity" that get me killed so much. I might not look as good doing this in the p40... but I'm there!
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Originally posted by Rude
Just exactly what is this P-40 you speak of?
This would be the P40 that Honch speaks of :)
This was taken after Honch's last AH sortie. Not to worry though. He's enlisted the help of the expert ground crew of the Nomads. Large quantities of duct tape and beer should have his P40 back in action by Friday night.
Dan/Slack
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_169_1069868231.jpg)
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LOL thanks Slack, I didn't realize you were filming that one. I would have slid a little further forward, had I known the camera was on, so we could get some of the pieces of your sortie in the shot too.
-G-
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Originally posted by Honch
LOL thanks Slack, I didn't realize you were filming that one. I would have slid a little further forward, had I known the camera was on, so we could get some of the pieces of your sortie in the shot too.
-G-
Yeah, well.....At least I got down on my landing gear! :)
Dan/Slack
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_169_1069871856.jpg)
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I'm in Honch , sounds like fun.
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Yeah, well.....At least I got down on my landing gear! :)
Dan/Slack
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_169_1069871856.jpg)
But that's a typical Nomad landing.
ack-ack
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
But that's a typical Nomad landing.
ack-ack
What are you implying? :)
Dan/Slack
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What if you don't have a sense of humor... can you still fly the P-40?
MiniD
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Originally posted by Steve
I'm in!! I like to fly the p51 because I feel I look sexy as I perform my regular "stunts of stupidity" that get me killed so much. I might not look as good doing this in the p40... but I'm there!
I saw your picture ... some guys holding you in his hand at some lake ... you need more than a P-51 to make you look sexy ... :D
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Rofl... I thought I'd never get the taste of thumb out of my mouth.
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Originally posted by Mini D
What if you don't have a sense of humor... can you still fly the P-40?
MiniD
Evidently :p
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LOL Iron, you think the AKs might partake in the silliness Friday?
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Originally posted by Honch
LOL Ack-Ack, sorry to hear that. You seem to be a real P40 fan. Check my stats - I am too!
While yes I admit to being an admirer of the P-40, I haven't logged any sort of online flight time in it. My only adventures have been against those dreaded offline drones when I was putting the P-40 through some tests to see what it can do.
I do plan on bringing my flight controllers to work so I can try to sneak in a few minutes of flight time tomorrow though :c)
ack-ack
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Hmm... seriously considering coming back just for this P40 event. :)
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HEHEHE OCT, Would be great to see you! See if you can convince some of your squaddies to join in the . . er . . . fun . .
-G-
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Originally posted by Honch
LOL Iron, you think the AKs might partake in the silliness Friday?
Probably not. The AK's aren't usually a silly bunch, well, except when some of us have imbibed, a rare occasion. ;)
I doubt there are more than a couple of us that could even find the throttle in one o' them rare birds.
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Are we going to get to shoot at folks?
The P-40...what a ride....if the maps had closer fields, I'de fly it all the time.:)
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Iron, not a problem. It really takes a misguided sense of dedication to commit to the 40. I suggest you guys come hunt the rest of us down!
I've talked to a lot of folks on all three countries and it seems we may have a 1/2 way decent participation. I'm just looking forward to seeing a different mix in the MA.
ps. tell Weav I'm sorry for ramming his 262 last night. Seemed like a good idea to me at the time 8(
Rude - as far as getting to shoot at folks - not likely. Is that a problem?
- Honch