Zekes

[jetb123]

Yesterday i was in a h2h arena. In a FFA room and everybody there was flying zekes. I find that hitting a zeke almost 50% of the time it catches fire. I thought i recorded it but i guess not. ANybody else having this problem?

[SuperDud]

Well you mix paper and fuel and thats the result I would expect:p

[Kweassa]

Zekes are relatively 'unarmoured' in its vital areas, and a probability of penetration to the fuel tanks which might ignite it is pretty high.

 I'd say it's not particularly a 'problem' but a 'feature' by itself.

[pellik]

I think if the round penetrates the tank from the right angle all that fuel burning and shooting out should cause the zeke to go really really fast until it explodes. Maybe it wouldn't be the most realistic effect but damn would it be fun.

[Drano]

Originally posted by jetb123
Yesterday i was in a h2h arena. In a FFA room and everybody there was flying zekes. I find that hitting a zeke almost 50% of the time it catches fire. I thought i recorded it but i guess not. ANybody else having this problem?

They didn't call them "rice paper fire traps" for nothin. Seriously--they did.

 Drano

[HavocTM]

[Ohio43]

Ya, its not an AH2 problem.  They just modelled it correctly.  Zeke's are explosions waiting to happen.

[Soda]

Anyone else notice how long a Zeke can burn before it explodes/breaks-up?  Is it just me or does it seem to last longer on fire than almost any other aircraft in the game?  I know I was using one for base defense a while ago and got set ablaze, managed to actually dogfight the enemy while on fire and kill him, land and exit, but the plane never actually came apart on me.  Strange.

-Soda

[BTW]

Yea, it makes you wonder how much paper they use

[StarOfAfrica2]

Its not the paper.  The flames happen when you make the pilot drop his sake cup, spilling it on the outside of his plane.  A spark ignites it, and of course the alcohol has to burn off before it really "catches" in the paper.

[jthemenway]

I've read accounts of P38 pilots who said that Zekes would burn and or expload after only a few rounds. This was a nasty surprise for one gent who (as I read it) transferred to ETO to give 38 squadrons some experienced leadership. His first encounter with a german, he pumped in a few rounds and then let off waiting for the fire. He recounted that he was very shocked when that did not happen

[SixWhiskey]

For the few who do not know:

The Zero was a wood and fabric airplane.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by SixWhiskey
For the few who do not know:

The Zero was a wood and fabric airplane.

I think there are more than a few who do not know that.

- oldman

[BTW]

And paper is not a fabric?

[Widewing]

Originally posted by SixWhiskey
For the few who do not know:

The Zero was a wood and fabric airplane.

Gee, someone should have told Mitsubishi sooner, those idiots were building them out of aluminum! Just think how much money they could have saved if they had made the wings from wood and fabric instead of aluminum spars, ribs and stressed aluminum skin.



My regards,

Widewing