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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: Brewster Buffalo
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

> From: cti1!greg@uunet.UU.NET (Greg Fabian)
> 
> According to a Nova program about fighter aircraft technology the other
> day, about 85% of the fighter aircraft shot down were not involved in
> dogfights but were shot-up during a single high-speed, i.e., an arial
> strafing run.  In effect, most pilots never saw it comming.  It seems
> that shooting up the enemy aircraft from rudder to spinner in one pass
> at high speed is, by far, the most successful tactic.


  Pilots call that the "golden B.B."  -  on the other hand - ask them why
  they would fly through all that - and you get, "Big sky - little bullet!"





  mike schmitt