Soft Butt

[carl]

How about fixing the typhoons soft butt and tinfoil pilot armor. Everytime I get hit in the tail the radiator goes out or pilot wounded ,  get hit by tank/m3 mg and pilot is wounded or rad goes out. And no I'm not confused about where the impacts are. I don't have that problem in the other "airplanes".

[funked]

Yep the first ping on the Typhoon ALWAYS kills the radiator...

[JoeMud]

well if its that big ugly thing on there I can see why  

[Fishu]

I feel pilot and radiator easy on it too..
Once were trying its mighty Hispanos on a tank and my pilot got shot on couple hits while the tank was below me (I flew over after aborted my cannon strike because I thought that I can't recover uber agile Typhoon from that little dive)

Though.. I feel radiator weak on half of the planes in AH (p47, typhoon, me109, fw190 mostly)
P-47 can fly +5 minutes with radiator damage  

[Vermillion]

Seems to me like just about anything with an inline engine catchs the "magic BB" in the radiator in the first shot.

109's, P51's, Yak's.... all seem bad to me in that regard.

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

[Tac]

Heh, try to attack a tank in a P-38. The FIRST ping from that machine gun of the panzer will ALWAYS be a pilot wound. And a bad one at that.

Its quite amazing that when you get HO'ed by a pony or any other .50 sprayin' planes you dont get pilot wounds THAT much of the time.

[pzvg]

Hehe ya ever thought it might be the lack of convergence issues with the Mg42? ie; your rounds are actually going where the sight points.
Now, I must be the oddball but the times I've done G\A in a tiff, I've never had the rad hit, wings coming off yes, but the engine still howling at full power all the way in (no smoke trail, ergo, no rad hit)
we could do comparative tests, but for some reason, everyone gets different results when they try to specifically test for something.
go figure?

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pzvg- "5 years and I still can't shoot"

[Weave]

   I'll have to check next time Fishu, but to my knowledge, P-47 should not have a radiator. The engine is an air cooled radial type. I normaly get an oil leak/damage message, or fuel damage. This could be an oversight on the part of the programing.
   Last night in a La5n I took some hits. After the engagement I was trailing white vapor/smoke so I did a ctrl d to check damage and everything was green. I rtb with no problems other than the white tail.

...Weave

[Sorrow[S=A]]

White smoke is usually fuel weave. La-5 fuel tank is easy to poke holes in and but drains rather slowly. It has a pressurized 5 cell tank that prevents fires   Thats why La-5 almost never catches fire in combat until wings are blown off etc etc.

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by Weave:
  I'll have to check next time Fishu, but to my knowledge, P-47 should not have a radiator. The engine is an air cooled radial type. I normaly get an oil leak/damage message, or fuel damage. This could be an oversight on the part of the programing.
   Last night in a La5n I took some hits. After the engagement I was trailing white vapor/smoke so I did a ctrl d to check damage and everything was green. I rtb with no problems other than the white tail.

...Weave

And so does the flug wulf

- Jig