Five Favorite Aircraft - Fantasy League
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Apologies to Eagle1, who correctly ID'd the Betty that I thought was a Peggy. Playing Avalon Hill's Air Force/Dauntless games, we learned that Peggy could pull off some fighter-like moves and had a considerable defensive battery. We dubbed the Bladerunner soundtrack's "End Title Reprise" as "Peggy Music," which we'd cue up whenever a Peggy was played.
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this one was a MiG-17 in Janes' US Navy Fighters. Why the FARMER? It's got the Second Best 30-Millimeter in the Pacific, times three! I got to sit in the cockpit of a defected N. Korean F-6 in the mid-80s and watched another one zip across the DMZ in the mid-90s. So many of those guys defect... they must think their careers suck. Guess they don't appreciate flying a classic!
7 Comments:
At 1:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Brewster Buffalo, Misubishi "Betty" bomber, FW190-D9 or Ta-152, Yak-9, Mig-19
Eagle 1
At 1:20 PM,
Cowboy Blob said…
Close.
At 5:43 PM,
Anonymous said…
Eagle 1 got em all right except the Yak, it is a Yak-3.
At 5:59 PM,
Cowboy Blob said…
Closer.
At 2:11 AM,
James R. Rummel said…
Good post.
James
At 12:57 AM,
Bob said…
(Am here via hellinahandbasket)
My top 5 simulator aircraft:
P-39 (from Aces over the Pacific) Back in the day, I liked this one for the fun of flinging low-velocity 37mm cannon shells into ground targets, and once in a while, a Betty)
F-22 (from the Novalogic game's free demo, although I bought the full version, nothing could beat a one mission demo, where your one mission involved both aircombat AND droping a tactical nuke.
MIG-29 (from the old Novalogic game "Fulcrum") This was the first game I played with foreign language audio, which completely rocked. The ability to push the aircraft too far and flat spin was cool...not to mention dealing the the slightly crude nature of older Russian weapons
Sopwith Pup (Red Baron-Sierra) Totally underrated. It just needs some skill to work.
Typhoon (Aces over Europe-Sierra) 20mm + rockets, what more matters?
At 1:33 AM,
Anonymous said…
Blob, is that Brewster a screen from Pacific Fighters?
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