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Did you miss the part where Spits carried bombs beneath the wings. Hard to to put a bomb through a prop when dropped from that postion.

Think instead of parroting. An a/c shooting at an a/c (target) directly in front of it does not have the a/c (target) disappear. Now, if the shooting a/c pulls some lead, then the a/c (target) will disappear.

An a/c flying horizontal has the ground target disappear at a certain distance (speed, height and cowling size dependent). Depending on the a/c, the angle the a/c is flying (ie dive angle), this distance will decrease until the a/c is vertical/perpendicular.

So the a/c could not be vertical if the target disappeared.

A dictionary should be able to help you with the word 'almost'.