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Title: Question: Guncam and Gear.
Post by: BenDover on July 05, 2003, 01:19:30 PM

I was watching some documentories about the Battle of Britain today, this documentory contained ALOT of guncam footage but there was something I noticed....

After the plane in front gets shot a few times, he sometimes puts his gear down, was this some sort of universal signal of surrender?

Title: Question: Guncam and Gear.
Post by: Furball on July 06, 2003, 04:46:50 AM

that, or the a/c got hit in its hydraulic fluid

Title: Re: Question: Guncam and Gear.
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on July 06, 2003, 05:47:05 PM

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Originally posted by BenDover
I was watching some documentories about the Battle of Britain today, this documentory contained ALOT of guncam footage but there was something I noticed....

After the plane in front gets shot a few times, he sometimes puts his gear down, was this some sort of universal signal of surrender?

Hydraulics getting hit - I doubt if anyone ever actually thought that lowering gear is going to stop the enemy a/c shooting at them.

If I was on someone's six and about to finish them off why take the risk of letting them try to surrender.

Title: Question: Guncam and Gear.
Post by: Arlo on July 06, 2003, 06:05:51 PM

#3 in agreement - damage to the gear doors or it's system.

Title: Question: Guncam and Gear.
Post by: Furious on July 06, 2003, 06:19:20 PM

It was sometimes used a signal for surrender.