What is Your favourite plane from ww2?

[Lightning Guy]

And shooting yourself down is never a good move. Although I'm sure it happened once or twice.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

broberly why you never fire you r canon at over Mach 1, your mistake will catch up with you.............

 

[cheddar cheese]

cheap pun

 

[Lightning Guy]

Except not exaclty true. If a plane is traveling at Mach 1, so are the shells for the cannon while they are sitting in the magazine. Once they are fired, their true velocity will be equal to the velocity of the weapon plus the velocity of the aircraft.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i realise that, it's the same as an aircraft sitting on the deck of a moving carrier doing 15 knots, the plane's travveling at 15 knots before it's even moved, it was just a way to make a cheap pun.................

 

[kiwimac]

Actually during the Korean war, a Sabre pilot managed to do just that. He test fired his cannon and then put the sabre into a dive, exceeding mach 1 and pulled up out of the dive, straight into the path of the cannon shells he had fired moments before shot himself down.

Kiwimac

 

[cheddar cheese]

 

[Lightning Guy]

But that wasn't flying into the back of your own bullets.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it'll still do damage though.........................