Leaving poor John's brief thread alone I just wanted to post one more thing about the Ares/Nexus bombing ..
I found some interesting stuff about altitude and ground scale but when I went to start writing up any kind of explanation to account for the official rule this stuck out like a red flag:
Picking up from Dave's explanation with the diagram in the ohter thread...
So a bomb (with no engine) flies not only faster than the plane carrying it, but faster than a SPAD XIII or SE.5a (which are 6.0cm) ?
Now I know why they invented alcohol ...
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