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Huh? This doesn’t make physical sense. The bullet was traveling at airplane speed when fired, so in theory is going plane speed + bullet speed. Unless I’m misunderstanding things?
The bullet loses enough speed from air resistance before it sinks below the aircraft’s flight path and the air plane flies into it essentially, as I understand it.
The bullet knows where it is because it is always where it is, it knows this because it is a bullet, and if you happen be where the bullet is because it is where you thought it isn’t, or wasn’t, this is called error.
I imagine the bullet started out faster than the plane but, since it isn’t actively propelled, it slowed down and the plane didn’t. So less so that the plane was faster than the bullet and more that the plane was fast enough to catch up with the bullet before it fell to the ground. Edit: or just a totally made up tidbit, this is the internet after all
The plane shot the bullets upwards, then continued on a level path.
Once shot, the bullets take on a ballistic trajectory, i.e.: a parabole. On the downwards part of their trajectory, the bullets’ path intersected with the plane’s level flight path.
Plane shoots, plane dives then climbs in a reverse palabora. Bullet flies mostly straight
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This is an inaccurate account of the incident down to the year even. https://planeandpilotmag.com/grumman-f11-tiger-shoot-itself-down/ It was not due to the high speed of the aircraft so much as the terminal velocity of the bullets vs the plane in a powered dive.
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