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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Brewster Buffalo (was: draft)
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Date: 12 Dec 90 03:11:55 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: kiravuo@hila.hut.fi (Timo Kiravuo)
>... some pilots had their machineguns adjusted so that they
>met at 150 m front of the plane. Wind's aiming point was only 30
>m in front of the plane.

Another example of this sort of thing is Erich Hartmann's gunnery philosophy
(Hartmann, at 352 kills, being top ace of all time):  "I opened fire only
when the whole windshield was black with the enemy... at minimum range...
it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn
or any other maneuver..."
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry