Defensive circle

In article , Dave Eadsforth
writes

Greetings All,

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the valuable historical
and expert comments - I think I understand the pros and cons very well
now.

Very much appreciated!

Cheers,

Dave

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Dave Eadsforth

A tight turning circle down in the weeds is damn difficut to attack
without hitting the ground yourself. By DIW I mean the defender is
flying as low as he can and still stay alive, 25 feet or less. The
attacker has his hands full trying to pull lead and keep from slipping
below the defender's turning plane. You can find cases of this in BoB
records where RAF pilots were down low and had a 109 trapped at six
but got out of it by getting even lower. I know a PRANG pilot back in
the 70's who got bounced by 2 F14s and kept them from tracking him by
going down just above the waves. He was creaking around for a week
after pulling 7G for way too long but they ran out of fuel before they
ever got 'guns' on him. That was after his flight successfully
attacked the Ike by coming in at zero feet in sea clutter.
Walt BJ