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Originally Posted by HunterICX
Ha! I raise you
and its nemesis
Times there wherent any silly electronics.
Pilots flew them without the fancy gadgets to keep the plane in control
HunterICX |
Speed beats manouverability every time. Although the tri plane was amazingly manouverable, it was not very fast and as long as the opposing pilots did not try to out fly them, they would win. This always annoys me whenever Pearl Harbour is on, the idiot Ben Affleck character says 'We can't outrun them, so we'll have to outfly them' - well no, don't try that, or you're dead and also you CAN outrun them and you CAN'T outfly them, you blithering moron. I think he got brain damage when he went under water in the daytime and only reached the surface at night. Lack of oxygen is a terrible thing. The Zero was slow, but very manouverable. Later, against the P-38, which was less manouverable, it was dead meat, as long as the pilot didn't try to get into a turning battle. The incredible flipping and flying backwards is only useful if you can fire a missile that will catch your enemy and as you are stationary and he's moving at twice the speed of sound, that's got to be one hell of a fast missile.