Editing Fightercraft Maneuvers & Formations

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<td bgcolor="#FF0033"> <p><strong><font color="#000000">Standard 
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<p><b>Burnout</b><br>
Hit the afterburners and increase speed until 
your pursuer is no longer gaining on you or 
the afterburners finish their burn. Then perform 
as tight a 180 turn as you can handle; if your 
target is within your cone of fire, open up 
on him.</p>
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<p><b>Fishhook</b><br>
Calculate the new heading you want. Turn to 
a heading which is at a 180 angle off that figure, 
then almost immediately make a 180 turn to your 
coarse of choice. For instance, if you are on 
a 0 course and you want to make a 90 left turn, 
you first make a 90 right turn, then follow 
up immediately with a 180 turn.</p>
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<p><b>Hard Brake</b><br>
Reduce forward velocity as quickly as you can. 
If you brake sooner, harder, and better than 
your pursuer, he will overshoot you and enter 
your cone of fire. Open up on him.</p>

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<p><b>Kickstop</b><br>
Make a hard 90 turn in any direction and hold 
your new course for a moment. If your pursuer 
overshoots and doesn't turn in your wake, do 
a 180 spin back and open fire.</p>
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<p><b>Roll</b><br>

Close on your target while performing a corkscrew 
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<p><b>Shake</b><br>
Also called Zig-Zag. Perform back-and-forth 
45 evasive manuevers while closing on a target. 
Varying between shake and Roll tactics while 
closing is usually termed a Shake, Rattle, and 
Roll.</p>
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<p><b>Sit-'n'-Kick</b><br>
An evasive manuever especially useful against 
large ships. Make a 90 turn in any direction. 
Shut off engines and spin to face your target; 
open fire. Then make another random 90 turn 
and hit your afterburners.</p>
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<p><b>Sit-'n'-Spin</b><br>
Kill your engines and perform a 360 spin, firing 
on any targets that enter your cone of fire. 
Once you've spun to your orginal course, re-engage 
engines and continue.</p>
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<p><b>Tail</b><br>
You all know how to tail a target ship. But 
don't forget: Until you're sure of your most 
effective tailing range, try and maintain a 
range of 1000 meters, the "by-the-book" range.</p>
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<p><b>Tight Loop</b><br>
Perform a minimum-radius turn in any direction 
until you resume the course you held at the 
beginning of the manuever. Properly performed, 
this will put you behind your pursuer, or at 
least shake him off your tail for a moment.</p>

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<p><b>Turn-'n'-Spin</b><br>
This is like the Kickstop, except that you also 
kill engine power.</p>
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<td bgcolor="#FF0033"> <p><strong><font color="#000000">Formations</font></strong> 
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<p><b>1. Alpha-One</b><br>
Standard triangle shaped formation. <br>
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Wing Commander in front with one WingMan to 
each side.</p>

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<p><b>2. Alpha-Two</b><br>
Resembles a sloping line. <br>
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Wing Commander at front with both WingMen on 
his left side and slightly behind.</p>
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<p><b>3. Alpha-Three</b><br>
Wing Commander and WingMen in straight line.</p>
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<p><b>4. Beta-One</b><br>
Resembles a triangle when seen head on. <br>

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Wing Commander at top with WingMen below and 
on each side.</p>
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<p><b>5. Beta-Two</b><br>
Wing Commander in Middle with WingMen above 
and below</p>
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<p><b>6. Beta-Three</b><br>
Resembles Beta-One, except the Wing Commander 
is slightly behind his Wingmen instead of ahead 
of them.</p>
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