| Scissors |
| The Scissors is a basic dogfighting technique. Two planes travelling in roughly the same direction cannot easly line up for head-to-head passes. Rather, they engage in a criss-crossing pattern of banked turns, each trying to outiturn the other and shoot first. Sience lower airspeeds leads to tighter turns, the scissors is sometimes called the "race to go slow" |
| The scissors is really just a series of banked turns, as tight as they can get. Whenever the opponents can get a clear shot on eachother, they blast away for all they're worth. Firepower counts in this dort of fight, but maneuverability is more vital. A Zero will almost always defeat a Wildcat or even a Hellcat in a standard scissors. |
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