[QUOTE=Bound;35277279]I think it's hilarious the pilot and the guy who shot him down met to talk[/QUOTE]
What would make it really cool is if at their meeting the pilot snuck up from behind him and surprised him. Then this Serbian said "Whoa, where did you come from, you're a stealthy bastard aren't you?"
[quote] Dani, who retired in 2004 and now owns a small bakery outside Belgrade,[/quote]
Talk about badass!
"Yeah I shot down a big angry jet so that the people of the future could enjoy my delicious cupcakes!"
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;35284059]Especially in World War I, when the aeroplane was a new weapon. Georges Guynemer let Ernst Udet go after his guns jammed. He flew alongside Udet, saluted him, then veered away. Werner Voss used to shoot the engines of British and French observation planes instead of the crews or the fuel tanks because he'd served as a pilot of one himself in late 1915/early 1916.
Chivalry had pretty much died by mid-1918 though. The near four years of relentless fighting and death had created lots of bitterness and resentment between both sides.[/QUOTE]
I think some very good pilots that were shot down were given honorable funerals as well, by the opposing sides.
[QUOTE=Amez;35290393]I think some very good pilots that were shot down were given honorable funerals as well, by the opposing sides.[/QUOTE]
Indeed. When the Red Baron himself, Manfred von Richthofen, was shot down and killed on April 21, 1918, he was taken behind the lines by the Australians and buried a day later with full military honors by No. 3 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_JOp9dRf14[/media]
Oswald Boelcke of Jasta 2, the baron's mentor (and the same chap who wrote the Dicta Boelcke, which is still studied by pilots to this day), died in a midair collision in combat on October 28, 1916. The Germans recovered his body later that day and buried him the next at his aerodrome in Cambrai. No. 24 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps (the guys he'd been fighting the day before when he died) flew over as the service was underway and dropped a funeral wreath with a note pinned on it stating: [i]"To the memory of Captain Boelcke, our brave and chivalrous opponent."[/i]
[QUOTE=Maximum Mod;35281812]That has to have been a fast rocket, then
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Also, the radar and missile look like this:
[img]http://www.ausairpower.net/P-18_1RL131_Slovakia_01_MiroslavGyurosi-1S.jpg[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/SA-3_EP_2006.JPG/800px-SA-3_EP_2006.JPG[/img]
[tab]These are not the actual things used to down the f-117[/tab][/QUOTE]
And then i wonder why in BF3, we had to use puny stingers and SA7 to shoot down planes when there are huge ass rocket launchers nearby.
[QUOTE=BCell;35299284]And then i wonder why in BF3, we had to use puny stingers and SA7 to shoot down planes when there are huge ass rocket launchers nearby.[/QUOTE]
I bet if BF3 had perks like MW did that'd be one of them.
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