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Title: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: mutha on August 01, 2017, 05:28:38 PM
Sorry, I did not mean to give anything away to those who haven't seen it! Original comment deleted.

Mutha


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Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: BBQsam on August 01, 2017, 05:50:23 PM
I haven't seen the movie, what about the gliding spitfire??  I don't know about fighters but here in AH buffs with no fuel and no bomb load will glide across countries, a long time.
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Becinhu on August 01, 2017, 11:12:33 PM
Based on the change in angle of the sun he glided for roughly 4 hours at less than 1000 feet. Plus did a 180 an shot down a dive bomber.


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Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: The Fugitive on August 02, 2017, 08:16:14 AM
its an uber spit, what do you expect!  :D
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Devil 505 on August 02, 2017, 10:16:55 AM
its an uber spit, what do you expect!  :D

Nolan must be an Ah player.  :devil
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Becinhu on August 02, 2017, 11:01:33 AM
its an uber spit, what do you expect!  :D

I would agree if it was a XVI but it was a I lol


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Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Puma44 on August 02, 2017, 11:10:44 AM
Based on the change in angle of the sun he glided for roughly 4 hours at less than 1000 feet. Plus did a 180 an shot down a dive bomber.


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I thought maybe he stayed up all night and waited for sunrise to land on the beach. 😂
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Zimme83 on August 02, 2017, 11:17:15 AM
BS. A Spit I can never kill a Stuka.
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: mutha on August 02, 2017, 11:19:14 AM
Also Tom Hardy wasn't taught about lead deflection shooting. Kinda maddening.


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Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Kanth on August 02, 2017, 11:33:05 AM

 :rofl  :bhead

Also Tom Hardy wasn't taught about lead deflection shooting. Kinda maddening.


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Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: popeye on August 02, 2017, 11:34:42 AM
Also Tom Hardy wasn't taught about lead deflection shooting. Kinda maddening.


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Exactly!  I'm thinking, "shoot"  "shoot", but he waits until the target is in the center of the sight.    :rolleyes:

They should have had him train in AH for a few weeks.   :D
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: mutha on August 02, 2017, 11:40:22 AM
I wanted to scream at the screen "DON'T SHOOT WHERE HE IS - SHOOT WHERE HE'S GONNA BE!"
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Kingpin on August 02, 2017, 01:26:21 PM

Also Tom Hardy wasn't taught about lead deflection shooting. Kinda maddening.

I said to my friend while exiting the movie theater:  "People in Aces High are going to be talking about the air-to-air gunnery and Tom Hardy's deflection shooting."  I kept pulling an imaginary trigger on my theater seat arm-rest every time he had the correct lead, only to have him hold fire to line up the pipper on the turning 109.

I was also thinking I would never have a 109 saddled on me that long without taking a ping in Aces High!   :)
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: 715 on August 02, 2017, 02:13:05 PM
I suspect the lack of lead deflection is intentional.  We all kringe, but can you imagine what movie goers not familiar with aerial combat would feel if they saw Hardy constantly fire ahead of the target.  They'd be even more confused if the tracers "curved" to hit the target.  Most people think "line up target with gun-sight then fire".  General movie goers are not going to understand the fine points of inertially accelerating physics frames of reference.
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Karnak on August 02, 2017, 10:22:07 PM
I suspect the lack of lead deflection is intentional.  We all kringe, but can you imagine what movie goers not familiar with aerial combat would feel if they saw Hardy constantly fire ahead of the target.  They'd be even more confused if the tracers "curved" to hit the target.  Most people think "line up target with gun-sight then fire".  General movie goers are not going to understand the fine points of inertially accelerating physics frames of reference.
That and the fact that most WWII pilots did not pull enough lead either.
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: madrid311 on August 02, 2017, 11:27:30 PM
When he was trying to set up a shot, I was saying, "not yet, not yet, now!" The Wife ack was deadly after the second time.
Title: Re: Speaking of Dunkirk...
Post by: Vinkman on August 03, 2017, 01:12:06 PM
I thought the movie was very underwhelming.  :salute

It was really a small quaint movie, and not the Epic I was expecting.  It's not a bad movie as it is, but if you're going to call it Dunkirk it comes with a certain expectation level due to its well known history. 

I'm not sure what the point of making a tiny dunkirk movie was.  :salute