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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: LtHans on January 04, 2002, 03:15:00 AM
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No, I'm not going to flame somebody for bailing.
Quite the contrary. I intentionally stay in the cockpit of my....fuselage that used to resemble an airplane so as to give my killer the joy of watching an actual auger.
Its a goofy sort of protest on my part for HTC to hopefully add in dead planes to AH someday. Planes don't disintergrate. Nothing really does. A 2,000 pound aircraft is just seperated into several chunks, but the some of the total is still 2,000 pounds.
Wouldn't you like to see planes cartwheel to their doom?
Hans
P.S. There is also the slim chance that the other guy may buy it in a pilot kill or explosion before you hit terra firma. Your plane may be a funky helicopter, but you will still get the credit or at least the assist.
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Actually, when I blow an enemy's wing or tail off I hope he bails because if he doesn't there is a very good chance a friendly will "help" me and take the kill.
I bail to give the guy who earned it the kill, not some wreck chaser.
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If it's a niki pilot I prefer they bail (they seldom do) It gives me a very good oportunity to kill his chute too :D
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Going down with your wreck is sexy, even more if you go down firing your guns.
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AH is still missing one of the classic audio/visual experiences of WWII aerial combat.......
The disabled pilot, screaming down in a spiral dive, engine pitch rising, rising, rising BOOM!
You see it in every black and white film shot from the cliffs of Dover, and we should be seeing it here too.
At the moment, AH simultes a pilot kill with an explosion. It's a nice graphic image, and one that we should keep.
But we could add one. As the pilot's killed, the icon goes out, and the plane spirals down....
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Shouldn't we get some reward for killing them tiny little chutes? Shooldn't bailers be punished for their cowardly act?
lazs
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I'd love to see an outside view of my plane for a few seconds after I meet Mother Earth instead of Insta-Tower. :)
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If it will bolster your courage to the do right thing and remain in your plane, I have actually given kill credit by chasing down a burning wreck waiting for the pilot to bail. Only to hit the ground before he does.
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Bail if you want. If you are flying a German plane I'm coming for your chute. :)
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Originally posted by Animal:
Going down with your wreck is sexy, even more if you go down firing your guns.
Hmmm.... I tend to do that, usually still in one of the gun positions on my bomber, hoping for a lucky parting shot - or that the person who had the audacity to shoot at me could die first.... ;)
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Yeah, I don't fault anyone for bailing. If it weren't for chutes, I wouldn't get any kills.
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Originally posted by funkedup:
Bail if you want. If you are flying a German plane I'm coming for your chute. :)
That's pretty prejudiced. I'm an equal opportunity chute shooter.
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A French man and woman are having a picnic lunch out in a park. The man leans over to kiss the lady, and plants one on her face. Tongue and all. She pulls back and says, "lower". So he begins kissing her passionately on her neck. She says, "lower". He begins to lightly kiss her on her chest, and she says, "lower". So, he tears her skirt from around her waist, grabs the bottle of liqour they brought with them and douses her in it. He then lights and match and tosses it on her.
Alarmed, the lady gets up screaming with her arms flailing and dives into the nearby pond. She gets out and yells at the top of her lungs "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!"
The man looks at her and says, "I am the great fighter pilot Pierre Fonk, when I go down, I go down in flames!"
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I know it's old, but I thought it belonged in this thread. :)
-SW
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I'm not prejudiced I'm just historical.
http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/pol39/pol39.htm (http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/pol39/pol39.htm)
I shoot some non-LW chutes too. :)
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I heard all the FDBs were flaming.
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Hmm on second thought:
Feliks Szyszka was shot down over Warsaw on the
first day of the war, and as he hung on his parachute,
his face and body badly burned, a German fighter
flew back and forth shooting at him. He had seventeen
bullet wounds on his legs alone when he landed, and
spent four months in the hospital....In Britain he joined
one of the Polish fighter squadrons, and in 1941, over
France, bagged his first Messerschmitt. The German
baled out, and Szyszka found himself tearing down on
the parachuting pilot. 'I really don't know what was
happening with me, but my finger was poised on the
machine-gun button,' he recalls. 'I only needed to
press it. But I had to see his face. So I bore down on
him and held my fire. The German grew in my sights,
twisting on the cords and waving his arms fanatically.
In the end I saw his face clearly. It was terrible, but
different, oh how different, from the face I had seen
over Warsaw. It was crazed with fear. The German
dropped his arms and hung there like a rag doll. But
I could not shoot. I just couldn't. I banked my Spitfire
and passed a few meters from his face. For awhile I
watched as the parachute drifted groundwards. Then
I rejoined the squadron, and when I landed - I
suddenly felt deep happiness.'
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I'm always one for putting on a good show. If my opponent bails out, I usually like to do some tricks for him. Sometimes I will fly right by him with gear down, flaps outs, and doing about 85knts. Other times I will fly inverted right at him and dive away at the last second. However, my favorite maneuver to perform on an enemy chute is to fly right at them with 70 inches of manifold pressure and firing 900 rounds a minute out of each of my .50 cal machine guns until he is dead haha.
PS- Anyone remember when they took away the .45 cal pistol from WB when chutes started occasionaly getting pilot kills on the planes that shot them down?
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I kill chutes with my A6M and ONLY A6M....
peace
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Have to agree with Wilbuz here - NIKI pilots pushed the wrong button while in the hangar, I'll push the right button while their chute is in my sights...
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I stopped bailing the same day I started shooting chutes.
An interesting side note on chute whines... knocked down a 109 in the CA the other night, the guy bails. I whipped around; did a perfect line up on the chute and was boring in... but as always, it's best to look behind you before yah shoot whats in front of yah.
Intrestingly enuff, there's a spit there, also lining up the same chute. I kicked the rudder a bit ( I dunno why..FDB instincts I guess) and sure enuff the spittys rounds hit my Corsair. The killshooter gives the chutist the kill.
Now the 109 driver, still doing his nylon letdown starts raggin the nancy boy spit driver on ch 1 fer bein a total dweeb; missing the cute and killin himself.. and THEN I pumped 50 rounds inta him.
Timing is Everything. "..how sweet it is. " :D
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Originally posted by fdiron:
I'm always one for putting on a good show. If my opponent bails out, I usually like to do some tricks for him. Sometimes I will fly right by him with gear down, flaps outs, and doing about 85knts. Other times I will fly inverted right at him and dive away at the last second
You dont fight in furballs alot do ya?