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Offline bozon

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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #45 on: August 26, 2013, 05:14:57 AM »
Among the pure fighters I'd give the title to the F6F, with the FM2 close second.

The A20 is a special category being a bomber that is flown like a fighter-bomber and is incredibly tough. I killed one using only the .303 guns of the mossie and it took about 2000 bullets to do so - I was unable to put all 2000 on the same spot because the A20 wouldn't sit still as I was aiming. I was really hosing it with a continuous stream till finally something vital fell off. Even with the mossie quad 20mm they often survive a good volley.

The mosquito is more durable than most single engine fighters in the game, but it is no where near the A20 scale. It has two glaring vulnerabilities - one is that it tends to catch fire more often than most planes. I attribute that to wing tanks that cover a larger area than fusellage tanks and thus are more likely to get hit. The AH Mossie have 4 wing tanks and one aux tank. The other is a high rate of pilot wounds. Real life mossies were considered very durable by their pilots, often surviving flak hits and flying 4 hours on one engine to land at home.
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #46 on: August 26, 2013, 01:36:06 PM »
Among the pure fighters I'd give the title to the F6F, with the FM2 close second.

The A20 is a special category being a bomber that is flown like a fighter-bomber and is incredibly tough. I killed one using only the .303 guns of the mossie and it took about 2000 bullets to do so - I was unable to put all 2000 on the same spot because the A20 wouldn't sit still as I was aiming. I was really hosing it with a continuous stream till finally something vital fell off. Even with the mossie quad 20mm they often survive a good volley.

The mosquito is more durable than most single engine fighters in the game, but it is no where near the A20 scale. It has two glaring vulnerabilities - one is that it tends to catch fire more often than most planes. I attribute that to wing tanks that cover a larger area than fusellage tanks and thus are more likely to get hit. The AH Mossie have 4 wing tanks and one aux tank. The other is a high rate of pilot wounds. Real life mossies were considered very durable by their pilots, often surviving flak hits and flying 4 hours on one engine to land at home.
:airplane: I would suggest you burn LO and RO first to empty, that will cut down on flamers and it sure turns a lot better! The roll rate is greatly inhanced by emptying those two tanks first!
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #47 on: August 26, 2013, 01:47:30 PM »
:airplane: I would suggest you burn LO and RO first to empty, that will cut down on flamers and it sure turns a lot better! The roll rate is greatly inhanced by emptying those two tanks first!
It does that automatically.
When loading 50%, it takes 12 minutes to burn the aux and outer tanks. Then I know I have 22 minutes on the inner wing tanks and I can push this piece of furniture to its limits. Not sure if the actual amount of fuel in the tank has any effect on the chances of it catching flame though.
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #48 on: August 26, 2013, 03:59:03 PM »
Nothing tougher than a B17!  999000 <S>

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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #49 on: August 26, 2013, 04:47:45 PM »
Nothing tougher than a B17!  999000 <S>

How would you know?  Fighters never land enough hits on yours for you to be able to tell.  :D


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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #50 on: August 26, 2013, 05:09:35 PM »
How would you know?  Fighters never land enough hits on yours for you to be able to tell.  :D

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lol need the 110 missiles that explode in air for those formations  :devil

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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #51 on: August 26, 2013, 06:00:52 PM »
lol need the 110 missiles that explode in air for those formations  :devil

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 :rofl  not sure that would even help with 999000 shootin at ya
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #52 on: August 26, 2013, 06:39:21 PM »
F8 is pretty durable. At least from below.
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #53 on: August 26, 2013, 08:26:57 PM »
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #54 on: August 26, 2013, 09:10:00 PM »
:airplane:  I was just wondering which aircraft you guys think is the toughest and hardest aircraft to kill in AH?

  Any plane that I am not flying!  As soon as I climb into the cockpit, it becomes very killable.
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #55 on: August 26, 2013, 09:11:39 PM »
I've found that the toughest plane in AH is generallythe one i am shooting at :aok

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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #56 on: August 27, 2013, 12:50:06 AM »
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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #57 on: August 27, 2013, 06:53:17 AM »
P-47s note.  They are really tough.

When I find a base with more ACK huggers than pilots I grab a 47 and go after them in their own ACK!  Most of the time the hits on the 47 are not so critical that I cannot make it back.

Most importantly, the ACK huggers false sense of security is creatively removed as I follow their very predictable moves to mother ACK.

EDIT: I find the 190f a good plane for this too.  Tough as nails!

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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #58 on: August 27, 2013, 09:44:55 AM »
I noticed one big improvement in the damage model of the F6F when it was updated a few years back. The old model would often shed its whole horizontal tail when hit in that area, the new one usually just loses one half or the other. As losing half the tail actually makes surprisingly little difference to how the F6F flies, this has turned what was previously a death into a fighting chance of survival.

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Re: The Toughest Aircraft in AH?
« Reply #59 on: August 27, 2013, 10:58:16 AM »
I noticed one big improvement in the damage model of the F6F when it was updated a few years back. The old model would often shed its whole horizontal tail when hit in that area, the new one usually just loses one half or the other. As losing half the tail actually makes surprisingly little difference to how the F6F flies, this has turned what was previously a death into a fighting chance of survival.


It's not just the F6F that was updated. The horizontal stabilizer used to be treated as one object for ALL aircraft at one point.
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