very strange plane damage ???

[Sailor Steve]

There's always the engine, which is steel and weighs a half-ton or more, and all that avgas burning everywhere...

[simsurfer]

Plus size & velocity!! You would be dead big time.

[Snaptrap]

Speaking of strange plane damage. A plane my crew was shooting at was flying with one wing. That's how it came into view.

Originally Posted by Snaptrap

Speaking of strange plane damage. A plane my crew was shooting at was flying with one wing. That's how it came into view.

maybe that was one of those super secret japanese weapons they were working on :hmm:

@ Ducimus - it was stock UBM 1.5 unmodded and the plane was in a full speed straight dive without any deviation, like a missle.

i expected to see the plane go right through me like a harpoon but i got some flooding in the control room which was repairable and the only thing destroyed was the radio antena.

i think it destroyed the antena as it did its whirling dervish spin bouncing off me lol.

while we are talking about this, is anyone working on changing the flight paths of the plans when they attack or is that hard coded?

some of the acrobatics they do are just too unrealistic like a full dive to a full climb in an almost straight up and down flight path. i would like to see some low level attack runs as well.

[Rockin Robbins]

For me, the planes can do whatever they want. They can even be Curtiss Jennies for all I care because I never see them. By the time they can see me I'm tucked in at 100' just waiting for them to fly by. I think all Japanese aircraft should be replaced by ME 262s!:rotfl:

[gimpy117]

yeah wee need a plane physics mod....

I get cringes every time i see an H.8k pull out of a dive, a pull like that isn't even possible with the elevator setup on one of those planes, and if it could pull out of a dive that quick...the airframe would almost certianally fail.

and the wing thing too, unless it's the very tip, if half a wing is gone, you're dead, some pilots have come back with missing parts of wings, but only one has with a whole wing and that was in and f-15 (and F-15's can derive enough lift from the body).

personally, if i could see a plane mod with real proformance and even dogfights....I would love it!

[Snaptrap]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

yeah wee need a plane physics mod....

I get cringes every time i see an H.8k pull out of a dive, a pull like that isn't even possible with the elevator setup on one of those planes, and if it could pull out of a dive that quick...the airframe would almost certianally fail.

and the wing thing too, unless it's the very tip, if half a wing is gone, you're dead, some pilots have come back with missing parts of wings, but only one has with a whole wing and that was in and f-15 (and F-15's can derive enough lift from the body).

personally, if i could see a plane mod with real proformance and even dogfights....I would love it!

About 3/4 of the wing was gone. My crew eventually shot it down, but before they even fired, it came into sight with a large chunk of wing missing. Realistically, it would not be able to fly at all.