That's about what my settings get me with regards to 'eye candy' but I get about 10-20 more FPS.
As far as the ditch goes, it looks like you've been getting lessons from CPorky. His p-38's have looked like that for years.
Best ditch last night had to be the Tempest a squaddie shot off of me. We were clocking a good 350MPH BETWEEN the trees last night, when parin shot a Tempest off of me, this thing cartwheeled in and was in a million pieces, there was even a fire and explosion, and the guy got a ditch, evidently, because parin got no message at all, assist or kill.