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From: bosart@teda.UUCP (Donald R. Bosart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: F/A 18
Message-ID: <17740@teda.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 21:41:50 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.175221.343@tc.fluke.COM> <1990Dec1.194329.20431@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Dec2.201152.22965@cs.umn.edu> <2049@otc.otca.oz> <1990Dec4.192608.19881@cs.umn.edu>
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alberti@cs.umn.edu (Albatross) writes:

>In <2049@otc.otca.oz> elson@otc.otca.oz (Elson Markwick) writes:

> <stuff about the minus key and negative thrust deleted>

>followed.  One of my flares took out the IR and I heard an alarm which I
>thought was a damage indicator but was too busy to read.  I killed power,
>rolled over to turn the jet to face the other direction, and accelerated again.
>Falling tail-first, I attempted to reduce my downward trajectory while firing
>on the MIG.  Suddenly the grey shape of the conning tower loomed in my port
>window.  My velocity showed ~0 knots.  Reacting quickly, I killed my accelera-
>tion, lowered my landing gear, and dropped my nose.  And landed on the deck
>of the carrier.

>I do not claim to have done this deliberately, nor have I been able to
>reproduce this stunt, although my attempts have ended in some spectacular
>failures :-).
>-- 

I would not have believe this except for your disclaimer of
repeatability; this is a neat incident!  I suppose it could really
happen too -- a pilot would have to be truly insane to really try it!
:-)

My favorite technique for dealing with an IR and MIG on my tail is to
arrange it so when the engagement starts I'm at about 7000 ft; when the
MIG fires, I immediately go into an outside loop (negative gees).
Usually
I hit the bottom of the loop a few hundred feet above the surface (after
getting the warning bells about emminent crashes), the IR slams into the
ocean and the MIG too if he's stupid enough to follow!


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