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War in the air: everything you wanted to know

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Dog Fights Aren't a Dogfight

Some of the most successful pilots didn't dog fight. They just went in, chose a target, fired, flew out again and regrouped. If you start to get into a dog fight, it's going to use up your fuel and your ammunition. You're pulling four, five gs and five times yar as you come round sifou hundred keeles. And the aeroplane isn't necessariy stress for it. The aircraft that were being used weren't designed for dog fighting. So what we're after our bombe destroyers, which is why spit fires and hurricanes have eight machine guns in order to shoot down bomber aircraft. It's only in the

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