“Dogfight” (drama) 2 Minutes

December 6, 2007 by The Monologue Blogger

Filed under 2 Minute Monologues, MB Library, Male Monologues - Drama

Monologue Description: “Dogfight” is about a war pilots story, based on an experience he had in flight.

Character Description: In this monologue, Lieutenant Norman Bishop discusses with his Grandson, a dogfight he had “back in the day”.

LIEUTENANT NORMAN BISHOP:

I was headed back to base when two migs were detected on my radar. I chose to pursue them. At first, I couldn’t find them on my radar after I circled around. I knew they were there but I couldn’t detect them. I wasn’t sure if they knew I was near.

Sure enough, just as I detect a mig on my radar, a second one creeps up from below and behind me. It was tactical. I had one mig in front of me that I was firing after and the other mig right behind me firing after me. I was in a tight squeeze because the mig I was going after began climbing altitude. We were in a steep turn veering right as we kept climbing altitude and as we all kept firing at one another.

Finally I locked the mig in front of me and fired off a missile. Luckily I caught him just right. Right at the tip of his wing, enough blast to send him spiraling downward. Just before I veered over to my left and down in order to avoid getting hit from the mig behind me, I caught a wave of bullets in my left wing. Again, I was lucky because the damage wasn’t enough to take me down but I still had this guy riding my tail as close as two peas in a pod.

There was a thick of clouds about a mile north and I made a dive for it. He followed me hard. When we entered the clouds, I lost him. I came all the way around in a circular motion and spotted him just coming out of the thickness of those clouds.

I positioned myself behind him barely. He noticed me pretty quickly but not fast enough. He used this tactic where he would climb altitude nose aimed at the sky, like so.

(he demonstrates with his hands)

I followed suit. I was closing in on him, so much so that we were actually almost side by side. We were actually circling in a figure eight motion as we kept climbing altitude and then he would break left or right and nose dive back down toward mother Earth. This process went on for quite some time. My plane was faster than his and everytime I caught up to him, he would use the figure eight tactic.

I knew my plane couldn’t take much more of this and to be honest neither could I. I had to take him down before I ran out of steam. It was a terrific challenge.

Finally, I believe it was the fifth climb upward that I was able to position myself close enough behind him where I was actually almost kissing the back of his aircraft. As soon as he broke right, I broke right, had him in my sights and fired at will.

Down he went.

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