Montblack wrote:
("Rich S." wrote)
In your illustration, the gunner fires straight back
before the Me-109 is directly behind the B17. He can hit
if he fires at precisely the moment his gun crosses the
flight path of the Me-109.

Not so. The bullet simply falls to Earth and the ME-109 passes safely 50
yards (or so) behind the B-17.


Agreed.

(For those who don't agree)
Think of a pickup truck driving along at 40 mph. I'm standing in the bed
with a baseball.

When we reach the manhole cover in the middle of the street I let fly out
the back of the truck with my best stuff, which just happens to be a 40 mph
fastball g. That ball will not go past the manhole cover.

Won't it drop stairght down toward the manhole cover? (Yes it will.)


If you're a batter (or an ME-109) standing at the manhole cover - which
every kid knows is home plate - you won't get hit by my fastball ...or be
able to hit it. (I'm unhittable!!)


Evidently you have seen me at bat. But someone else could hit it.

And if I'm running toward the manhole cover at a right angle to
the direction the truck is driving I can catch the ball as I
step accross the manhole cover, right?

(Well, maybe you've seen me field too.)

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FF