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He probably does...one of two modes, most likely.Frontal visibility from a 109 was terrible, they had to offset the gunsight for that reason!
Do you play computer games Shooter?
The point of my post was that the 109 did not have the downward view to make these deflection shots.Hard to see out the front without looking through the sight
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Things never got better, maybe worse for the last in the line
*SNIP*
The entire idea is that during the early part of the BoB, the Germans used a tactic called Frei Jagdt, ( Sp?) where the escorts were free to hunt the RAF at will. The 109s sat on the "Perch" above the bombers and waited for the RAF to come up and play. Then they zoomed down, killed their single target and used the speed gained to zoom climb back up to the perch to look for a second victim. The dicta involved four or five steps; Look for the right target, look for impediments to killing that target, look for your escape route, then zoom down and ambush the hapless target and leave before his Wingman, or fiends could do anything about it. Because the RAF was required to attack the bombers, the 109s could use positional advantage to kill them at will and RAF losses were very heavy, for little return.
The the German bomber crew, who were being taken to the cleaners complained that they were not getting good escort services and the 109s were required to stay close to the bombers and they lost their advantage. That caused the K/L Ratio to flip and the RAF started doing much better. But the 109s were not killing as many RAF as before and the BoB was lost, or won depending on which side you were on.
One Strategy gave you the long term victory and the other gave the Bomber crews instant gratification.
To summarise, the LW shot down more SE fighters than the RAF, the RAF shot down more German aircraft in total, thats why it ended.Are we talking about the same BoB that happened over Europe in 1940? Admittedly, my knowledge is not up to snuff the way I want it to be on the subject, but at what point were the hapless Spitfires and Hurricanes being blown from the sky and not returning in kind? Um, even wikipedia isn't that... flawed.
If you exclude the fighting in Russia here the Luftwaffe aircraft and training were so superior to the Russian airforce whose aircraft were slaughtered the whole argument falls apart.You have seen the light! If you take the top 100 to 150 Me-109 Ace pilots who scored over 100 kills, and add up their scores, they shot down more planes than the Entire RAF, ALL of the USAAF Fighter commands, the Russians, or any other single Air Force. Maybe the second and third scoring AFs above combined?
Of the 103 German Aces with 100 kills, all but six achieved the majority of their success against Russian opponents on the Eastern or Arctic fronts.You have seen the light! If you take the top 100 to 150 Me-109 Ace pilots who scored over 100 kills, and add up their scores, they shot down more planes than the Entire RAF, ALL of the USAAF Fighter commands, the Russians, or any other single Air Force. Maybe the second and third scoring AFs above combined?
As to the second point about the bit in Yellow above, you are terribly uninformed. Why would you shoot at a plane you can not see? The simple fact is that the inverted engine gave the 109 pilot's a better view over the nose than a Mustang, or Spit. But that is not even remotely relevant!
When the Ace pulls the extra Gs to make the shot, he still has a clear LoS to the target.
Make the diagram I explained before and the see how far ahead the target has to be to still fall under the 109's guns which are pointed some 7 Degrees above the lowest possible Line of Sight.
The simple fact is that the inverted engine gave the 109 pilot's a better view over the nose than a Mustang, or Spit.
Most cockpit photos are of the instrument panel and so give a somewhat distorted view through the windscreen. Camera often being behind and above where the pilots eyes would be and aimed downward to capture the lower part of the panels/stick and perhaps rudder pedals. There may be photos take through the gun sight but they seem to be rare and that is the important view. View through windscreen side/corner panels and down the side of the engine being rather useless for aiming the guns.I don't suppose there are photos looking out of the cockpit for any of these aircraft?