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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)
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Subject: Re: P-47 was Re: A-10
Keywords: P-38 pilots backing throttle on one engine to tighten turns...
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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)


  The second highest scoring US ace in the Pacific, Thomas McGuffy (I believe)
obtained a number of his 38 kills doing precisely that -- throttling back
one engine to tighten a turn.  He was killed while doing this, too.  His plane
stalled, and he crashed.

 



  
  --don't like snow, miss Deirdre, and wish I was still in Santa Cruz.