did any fighter pilots escort bombers beyond their fuel limit? and if so, did they live to tell the tale?

11/9/2012 2:20:34 AM

k

11/9/2012 3:50:38 AM

1) yes

2) some

11/9/2012 6:48:51 AM

No. No fighter jet has ever run out of fuel.

11/9/2012 9:54:27 AM

you can refuel that shit in the air like that SNES / gba game

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11/9/2012 9:56:26 AM

11/9/2012 10:02:13 AM

no you retard...

super dogfight

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11/9/2012 10:14:18 AM

You kids and your SNESes. You're pink on the inside.

11/9/2012 10:18:19 AM

the drama in super dogfight is unmatched

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11/9/2012 10:26:47 AM

just dropping in to relate a key incident in the Battle of Britain

Hiter/Goering/some Nazi or other decided to send some bombers to bombard the manufacturing cities in northern Britain. Since these cities had not been targeted before, it was decided that no escorts were necessary. The British Air Marshal Dowd, however, had anticipated that sooner or later the Germans would try to do this very thing - bomb northern Britain without escorts - and had some reserve fighters stationed there. They tore the German bombers to shreds, and I think something like 20% of them got home.

/care

11/9/2012 11:22:59 AM

Did they fly from Norway?

11/9/2012 11:36:44 AM

I don't know, actually...I'm getting this from Churchill, and he doesn't seem to say
incidentally, I swallow whole everything that Winston Churchill says

11/9/2012 11:41:09 AM

http://www.historynet.com/pardos-push-an-incredible-feat-of-airmanship.htm

11/9/2012 1:52:20 PM

^that was a cool story. Definitely worth the read.

11/9/2012 9:41:46 PM

^^the comments made me all warm n fuzzy (long-lost friends and such)

11/9/2012 10:01:26 PM

Reminds me of this story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fs8gsYKkIk

11/10/2012 4:57:55 AM

Doolittle raid of WWII is pretty epic. Short story: One way bombing trip to Japan, with planned ditch into enemy held Japan. first time bombers took off from a carrier, had to ditch a lot of weight to just get airborne. Had to take off early due to Japanese fishing vessel (?) spotting the carrier group and a lot of the raiders didn't make it to the ditch sight, and the ones that did, many were captured.

11/10/2012 9:36:42 AM

Who needs an escort when I'm rocking da ma deuce

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11/10/2012 2:51:32 PM

Oh they forgot to mention all the Vietnamese that got murdered by the bombs these F-4's dropped. Inb4 "it's war, not murder" I guess that would've ruined the story for the junior-high school intellectual capacity World Wrestling Federation sophistication of your average Vietnam Magazine readership.

like these are the first mercenaryfags in history to help each other

This is why military units are structured with hyper homosexual intimacy so they will help each other when the shit hits the fan. I think Napoleon was the first one to systematize that with his echelons, not sure.
The modern data says humans have an upper limit to the number of close relationships they can be in. Like 150. I forgot where I heard that.

11/13/2012 5:40:27 PM

^I love it when civilians think they know what being in the military is like




Cocksucker

11/13/2012 5:43:44 PM

Thought this was about pat's dog

11/13/2012 6:15:31 PM

That pic is from the regular nintendo game Top Gun

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11/13/2012 6:59:34 PM

Quote :

"hyper homosexual intimacy so they will help each other when the shit hits the fan. I think Napoleon was the first one to systematize that with his echelons, not sure"

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_the_Spartan_warriors_practise_homosexuality

11/13/2012 7:13:49 PM

they were Greek. i think they only considered the one getting it in the ass to be gay. it's a bad sign when you have to restrict your definition of gayness.

11/13/2012 7:19:44 PM

I don't get annoyed by surprise nudity/gore/tubgirl/meat spin/gostse, but If it was up to me, I would immediately drop the ban hammer on anyone who clearly trolled. Trolling just for the sake of trolling is eye-wateringly douchey and lame.

11/13/2012 7:50:57 PM

maybe i not really troll but say I trolled because im scared of Tarpon.

11/13/2012 7:56:14 PM

^^You're a mod....do it fag

11/13/2012 8:02:22 PM

Dp...oops

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11/13/2012 8:02:22 PM

5^

Quote :

"So it was common for a young man to take a boy as a lover in the interim until he was married, at which stage he usually thereafter adopted an hetrosexual life. There was no slur on the boy - the only criticism was if the boy was/became effeminate. "

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