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Originally Posted by Bronzewing
What I find interesting about that link is the declaration that most aircraft of the ww2 period were "wood or fabric" Oh really? Funny, I've seen quite a few in museums and most of them are made from Sheet Aluminium over light alloy frames. The only fabric covered airplanes in SH3 are the Swordfish and the Wellington. and both those had steel frames not wood. IRL aircraft were hard to hit due to their small frontal cross section and high speed. but they were very easily damaged. The only armour in a Hurricane for example was the back of the pilot's seat and the front of the cockpit glass. 20mm rounds were perfectly capable of punching clean through the wings of aircraft if they hit directly.
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If you read the
entire thread carefully you will see that the statement about fabric or wood was made with regards to the Swordfish and the Wellington.
Refarding damages on planes one must remember that a plane falls off the sky when the pilot dies or when a vital part is hit. In (most) WWII planes all the vital parts were located around the engine and the pilot. Therefore holes on the fuselage were not enough to bring the plane down unless the bullets hit cables or other instruments. Taking into consideration that most of the fuselage was empty on those planes a few holes did not cause so much of a problem.