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Offline Furball

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« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2005, 10:22:14 AM »
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Not only could they catch V-1s, but they also use to 'tip' them over with their wings, as the V-1s could not fly inverted and crashed.


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oh no?

http://www.hawkertempest.se/mpg/tempv1.mpa

http://www.hawkertempest.se/mpg/v1kill.mpa

http://www.hawkertempest.se/mpg/beamont.zip


see these!
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Offline Angus

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« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2005, 07:03:08 PM »
Nice Nice Nice.
But of course those slow RAF planes couldn't catch the V-1's hehe. :D
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

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« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2005, 09:47:42 PM »
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The thing with V1s is that they WEREN'T catchable. They had to totally strip down planes and push their engines far past what they were designed for and dump 150 octane gas into them (wearing the engines down heavily) just to catch the V1 in a high speed shallow dive. There'd be no way in AH to intercept it, so what's the point? No way to stop it = mass destruction from a distance = ICBMs = etc =etc.

It wouldn't be good for gameplay, methinks.


Come on Krusty, do a bit of digging first before you make a crack like that.

They were catching them in Spit XIIs and they weren't dumping 150 octane in those or doing anything to modify them.

They were running them down in Spit XIVs as well.  I have the logbook of the 91 Squadron Spit XIV driver who downed the first V-1 in daylight.  No mods to his bird either.

Image is the drawing done at the time by Tom Slack in Terry Spencer's logbook commemorating the day Terry tipped a V-1 with his clipped wing Spit XII, MB882 EB-B of 41 Squadron.  
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Offline Angus

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« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2005, 05:33:00 AM »
LIES :D
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

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« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2005, 08:16:39 PM »
P-61 Black Widows downed 18 V-1's and could fight at night.

go figure
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« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2005, 08:48:39 PM »
OK, Thats perfect

Introduce the P-61 and the V-1 at the same time.

And just to clear up a couple of things

 Lazersailor184--- I didn't say the spit1 and Hurri1 were useless, they are the best assist planes in the lineup, :aok and I know the V-1 can't be guided. As I said, you would fire them the same way you fire the big ship guns. Maybe even use the land model setup just like the ship guns to add a little accuracy to it. And they would have the same limited range as the ship guns(25k) to stop people from lobing them all over.

Hey...Maybe we could have a nook tipped one with Slim Pickins riding it

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