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Old 15th Dec 2019, 15:43
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Mogwi
 
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Originally Posted by BVRAAM
How did you feel during the aerial engagements? Does the adrenaline of a live 'dogfight' make it easier to cope under high G?

Extremely focused! Don't know if adrenalin can help with G tolerance but apart from being very focused on the job in hand, my feelings swung rapidly between extreme anger - when I saw an A4 hit a landing craft and empathy - when the second guy banged out after I hit him and his winger with AIM9Ls.

Mind you, it was all over within seconds and then there was the joy of my first ever night deck landing, under a CB, in hissing rain with 90 secs of gas left in the tank.

Al least they kept the bar open for us!

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