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Alan · 6 February 2003, 01:42 AM

true...the reason for the invention of the Top Gun school during Vietnam was because our pilots lost the ability to dogfight.

It's one thing to stand off at 50+ miles and vape an enemy and quite another to really get into a good ol' fashioned furball.

Hats off, too, to the fact that MvR patterned much of what he did from "Dicta Boelcke."

I mean, really when you get right down to it, it makes better sense to get real close before blasting away due to deflection, inertia, speed, you know, physics things. *Whereas if you're on someone's "six" at close range it is easier to blast away with economy. *

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Alan Forum Ace Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Houston, Texas by way of Joisey Posts: 575	true...the reason for the invention of the Top Gun school during Vietnam was because our pilots lost the ability to dogfight. It's one thing to stand off at 50+ miles and vape an enemy and quite another to really get into a good ol' fashioned furball. Hats off, too, to the fact that MvR patterned much of what he did from "Dicta Boelcke." I mean, really when you get right down to it, it makes better sense to get real close before blasting away due to deflection, inertia, speed, you know, physics things. Whereas if you're on someone's "six" at close range it is easier to blast away with economy. __________________ Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt