why not make it a combat theatre game, or a separate arena all together? reduce the range at which the numbers give location away to say....500 yards, increase the glow from the exhaust, make it real! take a couple different fighters and just add radar, like the f4u's and the 262

and a couple other night ifghters, make a couple new one's alltogether, and just have a separate arena. i myself find it easier to kill in the dark, just cuz of surprise (especially with no tracers and from below and behind) and with a visibility reduction, u've got a whole other ball game! it sounds like it would at least arouse interest...