Jet v piston?
Over on another thread, Baffy Boy said:
>In the Time Machine, Dec 7 1941, Pearl Harbor, 0730 Local. Lead of a flight of F4Ds from the 'Gunfighters', just airborne, all fitted with 3 20mm gunpods, 4 sparrows and 4 sidewinders.<
This very subject cropped up in a recent crewroom conversation. Vigilant drivers aren't exactly well versed in the finer points of ACM, so none of us knew what the answer was -- but how would a modern fighter pilot take on a piston classic if it became necessary? Would be a case of one high-speed pass and a missile release? And did any such encounter ever take place for real?