Sikboy - I see what you are saying, and never realized until now what you had said. I'm new and have 3 or 4 kills. I was able to pump some rounds into the nose of the P-51 and it was smoking. I was the last plane on the "prong" of attack (farthest forward) and had to break for fuel reasons. I had pretty much forgotten about this until yesterday. It went into a spin, and (I have to give credit to this guy/gal), they pulled it out of a spin.
Now, if I am reading you right, you are basically saying that if say...you were to pump some lead into it and it goes down, it is still my kill? I'm serious about this, I hope I am understanding what are saying. Let me know.
Jay