This is what "Badboy" considers a description that includes VERTICAL LOOPS:
"Then we both turned hard LEFT, and whirled round on opposite sides of what seemed to be an ever decreasing circle. With wide-open throttles I held the Spitfire V in the tightest of vertical turns. Where was this German, who should, according to my reckoning, be filling the gunsight? I could not see him, and little wonder, for he was gaining on me, and IN ANOTHER COUPLE OF TURNS, he would have me in his sights."
-Just how seriously do you want to take someone who is unwilling to see that a LOOP in the above text is:
#1: Absent.
#2: Would never be named as a TURN?
Since apparently everyone here is too ignorant of WWII lingo to know "Vertical Turns" was a widely used short-hand for "Vertical bank turns" (no official documents or extensive records for informal short-hands, unfortunately), perhaps you should collectively at least display the intellectual honesty to admit a TURN is NOT a LOOP (and that, to top it off, there is no room for a drastic change of tactics in the above text!!!)...
Is that too much to ask for? Let me guess...
Gaston
P.S. I will try to find some descriptive written reference to this informal WWII lingo, but I doubt even that will convince the open minds around here...
G.
