From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:53:12 -0500
Subject: Re: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
> Can you put DFO on VTOLs? Yes, but it's kind of tough to hit them, unless they've landed. If you do manage to get a bomb hit on one while it's flying, though, it's quite effective. IIRC, an American fighter unintentionally destroyed a Zero by dropping a fuel tank on it. The answer to the question you actually meant is also yes. > Can you launch missiles in high mode? Yes.
From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:53:29 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
Can you put DFO on VTOLs? Can you launch missiles in high mode?
From: Ludo Toen <Ludo.Toen@p...>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:44:19 +0100
Subject: Re: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
> Laserlight wrote: > > Can you put DFO on VTOLs? This is nothing compared to the British mortar crew that shot down a Belgian "Flying boxcar" doing a paradrop over a German training area. Must have been in the 60s or 70s.
From: Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:14:09 -0800
Subject: Re: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
I'm wondering if the original question had more to do with "putting DFO on a
VTOL" as in "Equipping a VTOL with DFO", NOT "Subjecting a VTOL to attack by
DFO."
Maybe the question's original poster can clarify?
Brian B2
"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."
- S. Freud
> From: Ludo Toen <Ludo.Toen@ping.be>
Must
> have been in the 60s or 70s.
From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:38:00 -0600
Subject: Re: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
Brian said: *** I'm wondering if the original question had more to do with "putting DFO on a VTOL" as in "Equipping a VTOL with DFO", NOT "Subjecting a VTOL to attack by DFO." *** Chris had said: *** Yes, but it's kind of tough to hit them, unless they've landed. If you do manage to get a bomb hit on one while it's flying, though, it's quite effective. IIRC, an American fighter unintentionally destroyed a Zero by dropping a fuel tank on it. The answer to the question you actually meant is also yes. *** You will notice that in the second paragraph, he was being serious, if grammatically incorrect. Congratulations, Chris! You've succeeded at humor so subtle, folks can miss it! Next thing you know, you'll get a rep as a thinker... *duck*
From: Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:48:53 -0800
Subject: Re: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."
- S. Freud
devans@uneb.edu said:
> The answer to the question you actually meant is also yes.
The sound you hear is a human head repeatedly pounding a desk. Can't believe I
missed that.
From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:52:10 -0600
Subject: Re: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
*** > The answer to the question you actually meant is also yes. *** Nevermind; I misread an error into it. We blush together!
From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:18:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [DSII] DFO on VTOLs?
> On 28-Nov-01 at 16:15, Brian Bilderback (bbilderback@hotmail.com) wrote: Definately the question, if poorly phrased. Can my VTOL Gunship carry and drop a DFO?