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To: walkingdead

Also some simple geometry?

I recall that they were well above tracer burnout 3000’(?).

They are flying at 5000?
The distance from the windscreen to eye is ~2’
Distance to target ~7000? (45 d.)

We are 100m from center of target.
How much head movement can I live with?


35 posted on 07/06/2016 5:29:00 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Its actually a pylon turn, and yea with a grease pencil crosshair and a pylon turn it was pretty accurate.

Apparently it comes from a old delivery system they used to use for jungle/treed areas. Consisted of a collapsae bucket on a rope and in a pylon turn you could keep the rope and bucket in line, while you flew around it. I guess thats where the idea came from, only rope became stream of rounds. Apparently the old daredevil pilots of the 20s knew about the pylon turn and its effects.


58 posted on 07/07/2016 5:35:52 AM PDT by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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