first of all unreal hights means 25-30 k, second if you guys can make it and not get shot down, then I have quite a few stalkers flying perk aircraft, thirdly, inadequte armorment means the lank has only 2 .50's on it, the B17, B24 don't carry enough tail gunner ammo, I commonly run down arround 100 rounds for the tail and 200 for the top. and about the bomb load, I get shot down on my first pass or just after, so I only get one chance and the lighter bomber don't carry enough bombs to make getting killed almost every sortie. And by the way I am not new, I have been playing for around 3 yrs now and something that supports my stalker theroy is that this started happening in the last 2 monts or so.