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Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: mussie on February 24, 2007, 12:45:38 PM
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The Drop Tank Effect (http://members.optusnet.com.au/vstrom/The_Drop_Tank_Effect.pps)

Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: Meatwad on February 24, 2007, 12:50:56 PM
Tee hee :)
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: TinmanX on February 24, 2007, 12:54:20 PM
When I was a n00b I thought drop tanks were used to drop (kill) tanks and spent the better part of 3 afternoons dropping them on tanks.
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: mussie on February 24, 2007, 12:56:26 PM
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Originally posted by TinmanX
When I was a n00b I thought drop tanks were used to drop (kill) tanks and spent the better part of 3 afternoons dropping them on tanks.


LOL.....

When I started, I thought AFK was "A Free Kill" :)
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: Benny Moore on February 24, 2007, 01:14:44 PM
You mean it isn't?
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: mussie on February 24, 2007, 01:15:44 PM
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Originally posted by Benny Moore
You mean it isn't?


:D
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: Trukk on February 24, 2007, 01:18:29 PM
My first few days in AH was spent wondering who the heck this Ace guy was that was always under attack!
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: mussie on February 24, 2007, 01:19:44 PM
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Originally posted by Trukk
My first few days in AH was spent wondering who the heck this Ace guy was that was always under attack!


It took me a second but BWAAAAHAHA
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 24, 2007, 01:33:16 PM
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Originally posted by Trukk
My first few days in AH was spent wondering who the heck this Ace guy was that was always under attack!


I still wonder that. And Ive been here a few years.

I figure whoever recorded it had a sore upper lip at the time and just decided to omit the "b" sound or through improper sound editing

I finally cured it by replacing that sound with one where the words are properly enunciated ;)
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: Masherbrum on February 24, 2007, 01:35:39 PM
:rofl
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: E25280 on February 24, 2007, 05:19:35 PM
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Originally posted by Trukk
My first few days in AH was spent wondering who the heck this Ace guy was that was always under attack!
You mean itching etty doesn't pronounce her ees?  Never noticed.
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: Softail on February 26, 2007, 09:06:09 PM
I had a slightly different Drop Tank Effect.

Was in a KOTH a few weeks back....holding my own for a below average pilot.   I won two duals and my next encounter was with a Squadie....we are fighting for a good 5 minutes...ok ...he is fighting...I am turning and looping to try to save my life!  Every time he thinks he has a gun solution...I roll out of it.

We get up against the wall, ok...I lead him to the wall...I look at the ground as a wingman at times.  If he hits it and I dont ... good for me ;-)

So we are looping around the corner of the shear cliff...then it dawns on me why this plane wont turn worth *****.   I still have my drop tanks on...I look behind me....here comes my squadie about to dust my arnold.

He rolls over and starts to dive down on me....I ditch the drop tanks and roll hard to the right .... I hear boom ... then BOOM.

He saw the explosion and got fixated on its pretty colors....then he flew into the ground.    We had a hell of laugh about it....".... Look pretty explosion.....BOOM."  

Softail
Title: The Drop Tank Effect
Post by: BaldEagl on February 26, 2007, 11:37:53 PM
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Originally posted by Softail
I had a slightly different Drop Tank Effect.

Was in a KOTH a few weeks back....holding my own for a below average pilot.   I won two duals and my next encounter was with a Squadie....we are fighting for a good 5 minutes...ok ...he is fighting...I am turning and looping to try to save my life!  Every time he thinks he has a gun solution...I roll out of it.

We get up against the wall, ok...I lead him to the wall...I look at the ground as a wingman at times.  If he hits it and I dont ... good for me ;-)

So we are looping around the corner of the shear cliff...then it dawns on me why this plane wont turn worth *****.   I still have my drop tanks on...I look behind me....here comes my squadie about to dust my arnold.

He rolls over and starts to dive down on me....I ditch the drop tanks and roll hard to the right .... I hear boom ... then BOOM.

He saw the explosion and got fixated on its pretty colors....then he flew into the ground.    We had a hell of laugh about it....".... Look pretty explosion.....BOOM."  

Softail


I almost had the same thing happen with a squaddie in the LW arenas.  We were both in Spit XVI's with sipper tanks.  I was just above and in front of him as they ran dry.  I dropped mine and it nearly went through his canopy.

Just missed.