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Offline bozon

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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #150 on: August 08, 2012, 05:37:43 AM »
Hartman cheated. Didn't he bail out a couple of times?
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #151 on: August 08, 2012, 07:56:39 AM »
he ditched many times. perhaps because he was a glider pilot he was more comfortable ditching than bailing.

the one time he bailed was vs a bunch of mustangs. he was about to run out of fuel and jumped out. a mustang made a flyby of his chute... he thought he was going to get shot but instead the mustang driver waved as he flew by Hartmann.
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #152 on: August 08, 2012, 08:17:45 AM »

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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #153 on: August 08, 2012, 09:24:09 AM »
Quote from: Citabria on August 08, 2012, 07:56:39 AM
he ditched many times. perhaps because he was a glider pilot he was more comfortable ditching than bailing.

the one time he bailed was vs a bunch of mustangs. he was about to run out of fuel and jumped out. a mustang made a flyby of his chute... he thought he was going to get shot but instead the mustang driver waved as he flew by Hartmann.

14 ditches...to 1403 combat sorties, I would say thats not many at all :D
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #154 on: August 08, 2012, 10:32:20 AM »
I really love the 190A8.  I know, I know, it's a brick, but there's something beautiful about flying one.  Pull the trigger and it's like you hit a fly with a sledgehammer.  The trick is surviving in it with so many fast planes roaming the skies.

Since tour 144, January 2012, I have managed to get 71 kills in it and have Zero deaths, bails or ditches.  So I did the math and that leaves 281 to go to hit that "352" mark.

Daunting to say the least.  That's part of the fun doing these streak things.  As Fester has said, you've got a little more invested than just climbing out for 5 minutes like a normal sortie.

FYI, I also like to streak at the beginning of each month untill I fail, then I relax a bit.






281 to go.............sheesh.








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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #155 on: August 08, 2012, 09:08:35 PM »
I remember a bug where you could collect a zillion drone kills off a single set (can't recall the conditions) Also remember something about the lake with the monster (or something of that ilk) in it, which did similar
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #156 on: August 09, 2012, 12:32:12 AM »
Quote from: bj229r on August 08, 2012, 09:08:35 PM
I remember a bug where you could collect a zillion drone kills off a single set (can't recall the conditions) Also remember something about the lake with the monster (or something of that ilk) in it, which did similar

That was a bomber formation bug... If you tried to switch bombers (when the lead one was shot down), every key stroke would give a kill to the guy who shot down the bomber. I got 20+ kills assigned that way. That was in the day where every kill showed up in yellow text...

It was amusing

Widewing shot down so and so #1
Widewing shot down so and so #2
Widewing shot down so and so #3
Widewing shot down so and so #4
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Widewing shot down so and so #21

Sure pissed off that Lanc driver....  ;)
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #157 on: August 09, 2012, 03:02:46 AM »
Widewing, you should have challenged him to recite the entire pledge of allegiance            :)
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #158 on: August 09, 2012, 10:14:37 AM »
there was no bomber drones in beta in 1999 :)
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #159 on: August 09, 2012, 10:16:13 AM »
AFAIK bomber drones were added at the same time the broadcasted kill messages were removed: Tour 30.
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Re: 294 kill streak before dying. My best attempt yet at an old challenge
« Reply #160 on: August 09, 2012, 01:36:38 PM »
Note to self:  Hunt the Snail
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