Hi.. I just filmed a strange sight, and somehow, I can't seem to explain how this guy in a Zero-sen did this to me. No I wasn't shot down, but rather, he just ran away clean and straight, in a level flight... away from a 109G2 I was in, which was near 390mph.. at 22~23k altitude. Did these A6M5s have turbochargers or something?
Synopsis I was engaged in a fight with a A6M5 in a 109G2. No matter what I did, couldn't seem to shake him off in a vertical move. I figured it was because probably the Zero was very light in fuel.
I decide to run the chase up high, where the 109s were known to shine. But nope, he still follows a vertical move. At even 18~19k alt... but this, is also OK with me. I've seen it happen before.
Now at this point, I start filming. I thought It'd make a good film. I run the fight even higher, and the Zero just blindly chases me over 20k. I think to myself "excellent! Keep on following, dummy."
Maybe the Zero noticed something's not right. He decides to pull off, and I noticed that he was pulling off at about d2.0. He turns rapidly and heads the other way. I keep my direction for some more seconds, gain few hundred feet more alt, and turn and start the chase.
I know the distance is long. And I have turned also, in a very low speed. If the Zero decides to just dive away straight down, I won't follow him.. but he does not. When I start my shallow dive, accelerating and gaining speed, I notice something is wrong.
The Zero is now at about 4.0 distance. Lower than me. He probably dived a little to extend and gain speed. I thought to my self "So, how far can you go like that?".
But something's not right. the Zero stops his shallow dive, and as I near my 109G2 top speed, at it's prime altitude of 22~23k, the distance is not closing, rather, the Zero is actually running away from me!
Then suddenly, as if a BnZ fighter would to gain alt at a safe distance, he starts upaward in a shallow angle. Ok, I'll surely get him now.. he continues gaing alt, almost co-alt with me at 21~22k. I look at my speedometer, it is near 390mph. If I recall correctly, 109G2s do about that much at over 20k...
And to my astonishment, the Zero gains even more distance! 4.8... 4.9... 5.0... A zero, after a climb, can outrun a straight and level going 109G2 at 22k?? Even if he had collected much speed in some way I didn't see, how can he keep that speed up like that?
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I was amazed and alarmed. I broke off. Ended recording, and checked the film.
Another thing I notice strange..
I have seen all kinds of glitches and errors with film, but always, always there are planes correctly shown. The glitches are usually with damage thingies, graphical errors or such.
But when the film is turned on, the Zero isn't there. At the point where the film begins, the Zero should be behind my tail, chasing my climb, then pulling off. But nope. It is not there.
Then after about 10 seconds or so, with a sudden engine pass-by sound, the Zero first appears in film at distance 4.8 in front of me. This is when I was chasing it. All through the actual event, I have never lost the Zero from my sight. And in the film, the Zero isn't there. Something's not right.
So n the film, you will see a zero in a shallow dive at 4.8, and me also in a shallow dive chasing it, and the zero climbing up almost co-alt with me, and I reach about 390mph, and the Zero outrunning me from there.
Plz look at it and tell me what you guys think.
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