Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Tr0jan on November 18, 2008, 09:06:09 AM
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I came across this one,
Made me think, why dont drop tanks do any damage to anything,
Yes, there light but maybe if it was a good drop.. (just watch this clip :P)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uIny8caHMhk&feature=related
I know he missed but maybe, what would of happend if he would have hit one of them?
(Im not a big plane buff i dont actualy know, would it take there wing off or something?)
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Anyone with comments?
Would be much appreciated
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I would think that at the speeds these aircraft were closing on each other that it would definitely cause damage(possibly catastrophic). Why they are not coded to do so in AH, I will leave to the experts.
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It may be feasible that a fire would cause damage. Also the weight of the fuel would cause damage but to be able to hit anything with a reasonable amount of accuracy is unreasonable.
Drops were made of papermashe <spelling> and not flighted with fins like a bomb. Nore was there any type of ignition source.
Not worth the hassle in my opinion.
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Oi, Ginger, stop looking for new ways to kill me (You do that enough already lol.... :D).
Rockets fights in the P38 anyone???
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Wurzel
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Im pretty sure I heard WILDCAT talking once about how he dropped a drop tank and it hit a zero(In real life)
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Scuttlebutt was that ol 320 dropped their tanks thru a cloud layer and hit a Mig comin up under them they didnt even see.
Other kill it got was guns kill on a Mig that came thru cloud layer right up into their gunsite.
Good ol' 320 .. F-105G at Wright Pat now ..or did they send it to the Smithsonian?
Only 105 in the inventory with 2 red stars on the vari-ramps ..also the last one outta George AFB, long ago.
Heck of a flyby.
-GE
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A pair of P-38s were credited with sinking a Japaneese transport ship by dropping DTs on the deck and straffing the fuel alight with tracers. The ship burned 8 hours before it sank.
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we need napalm