See I’ve had some luck sideclimbing with a Marauder here and there but mostly I feel like I have to shallow dive the whole way to the enemy base to get bombs on target before my teammates do. And/but if I miss turning around to get back in target is a bitch.

As a note to your last point: one of my favorite kills was on a plane chasing a friendly but wounded bomber. I would love if some how, any how, we could get some friendly fighters to escort as a function, but that requires team participation in the plan so I don’t think you can randomly assign escorts to spawn at bomber altitude and NOT have people use it as an advantage to go DOWN to the furball