Talk:Lufbery circle

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[edit] Purely defensive?

I just watched the P-47 Thunderbolt episode of History Channel's "Dogfights" series, where they describe a fairly offensive mode to employ the Lufbery circle.

A Thunderbolt returning from a ground attack missions was caught by 20 German Bf 109. After a deep dive, the P47 pilot tried to climb for the cloud cover to get away, which the vastly superior German force attempted to prevent by forming two counterrotating Lufberys next to each other right below the clouds. "If the P47 tries to run in any direction", the commentary explains, "they can easily dive and shoot him down."

The relevant parts of the episode may be accessed on Youtube under

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omO5VXOBZ80&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG7SK53uVOQ&feature=related