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Offline Slade

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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #45 on: September 17, 2020, 12:39:02 PM »
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Wait, aren't you the guy that wanted to be able to dump your fuel

Yes, only if it was done in WWII.  I had seen some youtubes of planes doing that.

Keeping things in context is useful.  :salute
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Offline Wiley

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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #46 on: September 17, 2020, 12:48:49 PM »
Yes, only if it was done in WWII.  I had seen some youtubes of planes doing that.

Keeping things in context is useful.  :salute

I agree.

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Make the plane lighter and more effective should an unplanned red object appear.

Which looks to me like, "anytime I'm not at ideal weight in the MA".  Something I'm fairly certain was not SOP in WWII.

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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #47 on: September 17, 2020, 01:06:44 PM »
Yes, only if it was done in WWII.  I had seen some youtubes of planes doing that.

Keeping things in context is useful.  :salute

Share the youtubes. Nobody else seems to see them.

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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #48 on: September 18, 2020, 05:52:37 AM »
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Share the youtubes. Nobody else seems to see them.

Arlo I have to agree with you 100%.  If there is no evidence that WWII airplanes routinely did that, I dont think it should be added.

What I saw might not have been WWII.  I asked in original post to validate if it was true.


Now on 88's routinely firing into friendly planes to pluck out an enemy... :old:
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Offline Arlo

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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #49 on: September 18, 2020, 08:08:25 AM »
Now on 88's routinely firing into friendly planes to pluck out an enemy... :old:

That goes back to the issue of friendly fire (that and the specifics of how and if HT could program the difference between FF when it comes to one circumstance versus the other).  :salute

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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #50 on: September 18, 2020, 01:55:14 PM »
Good point Arlo.  :salute

I would not describe it as an "issue".  Most all wishes require some coding changes.
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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #51 on: September 25, 2020, 10:53:07 AM »

Yeager recounted enemy airfield AA shooting past the Me262 landing as Yeager dove on it.

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Re: 88s and FF
« Reply #52 on: September 25, 2020, 12:04:55 PM »
Yeager recounted enemy airfield AA shooting past the Me262 landing as Yeager dove on it.

Likely not 88s but certainly a standing order to protect the rare German jets at all cost.