[sci.military] P-47 was Re: A-10

scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C) (06/05/90)

From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)


  The second highest scoring US ace in the Pacific, Thomas McGuffy (I believe)
obtained a number of his 38 kills doing precisely that -- throttling back
one engine to tighten a turn.  He was killed while doing this, too.  His plane
stalled, and he crashed.

 



  
  --don't like snow, miss Deirdre, and wish I was still in Santa Cruz.