Author Topic: the fireball con  (Read 596 times)

Offline Iceman24

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« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2005, 02:04:34 PM »
they should take into account that zeros didnt have self sealling fuel tanks and that a fuel tank shot meant poof goes the japanese man, that was the main problem with most japanese planes, no self sealing fuel tanks, and the sad thing is it would have made all there planes sooo much better and would have only added about an extra 80lbs... its like all the WWII pilots used to say, if a bug hit the windshield of a zero it would explode... all american and german planes should be able to trail fire for a while, but the second a japenese planes fuel is hit it should go poof, both wings explode off and the fuselage does too, let not forget these things are also made of real cheap wood, and wood burns very well, a single .50 cal round to the fuel tank on a zeke or frank or niki should make them explode and go poof

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« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2005, 02:14:35 PM »
fuel tanks on planes do explode very easily and, come to think of i don't think any plane has ever been successfully landed in real life with a fire in the gas tank, any plane has a fire in the fuel tank your toast, no long fires anything like that, just boom, not even 2 seconds after the spark, especially jap planes, this isn't ordinarly tractor fuel, given its not rocket fuel either, but to the japs that was there 1 weakness, it wasnt that they were slow, or couldnt climb very well or dive, that didnt bother them, it was that if a bullet came close to the tanks, they exploded, and it just happened that the japs put the tanks in the most vulnerable positions to ade in mobility and turning...all jap planes were designed horribly wrong, made of the cheapest materials ( wood ) possible, had horrible trouble prone engines, and they didnt even use self sealing fuel tanks... all jap planes are modeled way to strong in this game, in real life they were hunk of junk death traps... 10 zeros couldnt match up against one wildcat in WWII