Get rid of oil on windscreen

[Morpheus]

As much as I hate when I take an oil hit, it does add to the game and tactics used while fighting.

If you hit someones oil, you know that their visability is going to be greatly decreased. Many times if i'm in an engagement with multiple cons and I hit one of the cons oil, I will concentrate more on the other cons that can still see me fine.

I remember that picture of the Jug above when we had this talk a long while back about this same subject when AH2 first came out.

[scott123]

"...my Bf 109 F took 11 direct hits from the tail gunner.We were flying without armoured glass in  front of the windscreen,and I was lucky to escape unhurt,all the bullets smashed into my cockpit to the side of me.I was only just able to make a proper landing,although the tyre on the left-hand undercarriage had been shot through;moreover I couldn't see a thing,as the oil pump had been hit and my entire messerschmitt was like a sardine in oil.By opening the small sliding window on the side of the cockpit  Hood I was just able to see enough to land properly..."

        Lt Otto P Stammberger IIIrd Gruppe Jg 26 1941


 If we didn't have oil damage people would ask for it.Opening hoods would be nice though.

[iKo]

Originally posted by Anchor
Actually, it does go over the windshield, but it is usually worse. I lost an engine once in a Cessna 172 and lost ALL forward visibility, not to mention the stench of the oil burning on the manifolds, and the smoke in the cockpit, and the stench of crap in my pants .

I think it is FAIR in AH that you can at least see something

He is right same thing happened to me in a Cessna the head gasket went was a real pain to land. Was like raining blackoil than the wind streaked it almost like AH.

Just fly 38 and you will not have this problem or going for the HO.

[Kweassa]

beet1e, I'm no engineer, but logically if a planes loses all of its oil, it should mean it's entire lubrication system is gone for broke. Being air-cooled does not mean the airflow will always cool the engine in whatever situation. The Fw190A was also used a radial engine but had quite a few problems in getting enough airflow to cool the engines properly IIRC. They actually had to install an internal fan to help the cooling process, and this is a normal functioning engine we're talking about.

 If a plane loses all of its oil, shouldn't it mean that the friction in the cylinders would cause dangerously high level of temperatures, whether it be air-cooled or not?

[beet1e]

Kwe

I'm not an engineer either. I was just going from titbits of information I've read while walking round military aviation museums, one being the case of the radial engine with a cylinder almost shot off. I was surprised too.

I don't know whether the engine used in the P47 had two separate radials as shown in my photo, nor indeed whether each had its own independent oil supply.

[Morpheus]

Beetle....!

SILENCE!!1:mad:


























How comes u never invite me to Europe?!

I like Euro Girls.

[beet1e]

Morph - you can come here whenever you like. It's a standing invitation! But if you come to my house, you can't leave until after 9am when everyone around here has gone to work, else they'll think I had a rent boy for the night.

[Morpheus]

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Rent Boy!?! I dont even want to know! lol



Can I rent a girl? Or two or three?

[Engine]

Morph, talk to Furball.  He doesn't care what his neighbors think, since they already know he keeps company with rent boys.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Meh the oils fine, the blood is a JOKE.
i have never felt more "unharmed" by a pilot wounder in any other game,than in aces high.

haveing a wounded pilot is like, just a stupid timer that makes you black out on randome times, mostly when your about to land "LAME!!!" the same can be said about the engine oil, note how QUICK is starts to go empty the second you turn your nose twards home, and begain geting closer to base, BAM..the oil starts leaking faster..and faster..and fatser..ehy..miget..get out of my engine, i need that oil yah fuxer!

Ever get pilot wounded in janes ww2 fighters?

blood squirts all over the cockpit, your pilot SCREAMS..and SCREAMS..and grunts..and moans..then he does something you will NEVER see in aces high with pilots being wounded, HE DIES!.

you feal, your plane become more slugish as your pilot looses more and more blood "dieing" the view sweys arounda bit inside the cockpit to simulate a person "without alot of blood runing thru the brain".

and then after a few mins of watching the blood fly from your body, your pilot gives one last "agonizeing scream" ARRAAGH!..then he dies..and your plane do's whatever,untill it hits the ground.

on another side note: have you guys seen how planes HIT the ground in janes ww2 fighters? they hit and BLOW Up,im talking sounds,lights..plane parts...KABOOOOM!! "someone just crashed" not this cheesy little fire ball aces high has.

man, with all us dieing so much, youd figure a little added detail here and there would add alot to the game, seeing a plane fly down to ther ground on fire and smokeing, without wings..hits the ground and KABOOOOM.

dunno, in janes ww2 fighters, i always feal like im in combat, with aces high..im just simulating it.

[hacksaw1]

http://www.acepilots.com/planes/f4u_corsair.html

"Each of fourteen cowl flaps had its own baby hydraulic cylinder to open and close it. These tended to leak. In addition, until the maintenance crews became expert, the big radial engine tended to throw a lot of oil. The combination rapidly coated the windshield and seriously decreased the airplane's inherently limited forward visibility. We all became expert at quickly locating rain showers through which we could fly in order to wash away the oil."
quoted from The Jolly Rogers, by Tom Blackburn and Eric Hammel
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http://www.aviation-history.com/vought/f4u.html

"In carrier landings it was practically impossible to see the Landing Signals Officer once the Corsair was lined up with the carrier deck on final approach. Adding to this problem were oil and hydraulic leaks from the engine compartment which seeped past the cowl flaps and smeared the windshield, further restricting visibility.
To alleviate the problem of oil and hydraulic fluid smearing the windshield, the Brits simply wired shut the cowl flaps across the top of the engine compartment, diverting the oil and hydraulic fluid around the sides of the fuselage."

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So regarding fouled windscreens, it looks like for at least the early F4U's, we've got it easy in AH compared to R/L.

Best Regards

Cement1

[eskimo2]

One day I was driving down a highway in Alaska in my Karman Ghia convertible.  I was about 75 yards behind an old station wagon when a big puff of smoke poofed off of it followed by a steady stream of smoke.  Pretty soon drops of oil began appearing on my windshield.  It made a big impression on me because it kind of felt like I got a freebie kill; it was very much like how I had always imagined scoring an air to air engine hit would look like.  I could certainly see through the oil, but I was 75 yards behind the blown engine.

eskimo

[yayyyy]

off topic, what do you use to make gif's eskimo. and is it simple or any simple programs?

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by yayyyy
off topic, what do you use to make gif's eskimo. and is it simple or any simple programs?

Its very easy, and you can do a lot with it:

GIF Construction Set Professional

eskimo

[yayyyy]

ok i downloaded it, where do i start? i tried uploading a gif i had on computer but it wouldnt play it was a still image when i hit preview