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Hawk Among the Sparrows.


Galane

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A classic SciFi time travel story from 1976 by Dean McLaughlin. A pilot and his futuristic VTOL jet are sent back to WW1 while observing a nuclear bomb test. You can read most of the story on Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=GzqWCrBO7XEC&pg=PA21&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

The jet in the story has only nuclear warhead missiles for armament, and its targeting systems can't lock onto the mostly wood and cloth aircraft of the 'teens, though I bet actual missile heat sensors could lock and track internal combustion engine exhaust heat. Their warheads proximity detonators don't trigger. The pilot then resorts to literally blowing them out of the sky with supersonic shockwaves, but the jet finally gets taken down by sucking in pieces of a biplane.

Using BDArmory and Airplanes Plus, Firespitter, or some other mod with propeller parts, dogfight a team of propeller fighters (up to the maximum BDA supports on one team VS 1) VS one jet fighter. For the prop fighters, go realistic/replica from WW1 through WW2 era or get creative like the advanced plane prototypes and limited production ones that didn't see action in WW2, or planes like in "The Sky Crawlers" anime movie or the "Crimson Skies" video game.

Not a challenge, just something to try for fun.

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