Originally posted by Westy:
I once blew up close enough to Mitsu to almost hurt him once. Does that count?
-Westy
Hehehe I enaged Mitsu in a B-17 once with a P-38 (bad idea) and we mutally shot each other up
He kept flying, and I got both radiators shot out
Managed to make to the runway tho.
Hmmm I have been guilty of frowning upon front aspect shots...it's stupidity on my part because I normally don't take front quarter shots period. It's just kind of frustrating after doding an intial, pure HO pass (easy to dodge with a roll and all) engage them and turn N burn down to the deck, to where I normally blow it where the guy gets close enough for a front aspect shot. (Normally with me in a P-51
) to where I pull straight up and start rolling wildly. Sometimes it works, most of the time I take a few hits. Other's it's the 4 cannon slam of death. But I never get the ol' HO accusation
Only time I did recently was an engagement with 2 F4U-1C's...killed one, took a burst from the other and lost a gun, managed to get a good HO burst with no damage to the 1C, took 3 more long bursts of .50 to put it down. P-51's are fun down low
- Jig