I (and quite a few others) have come to the conclusion that the faster you fly near field ack (the tracer kind),the more likely you are to be hit by it. My question is.. is this intentional? It would make a lot of sense from a gameplay point of view if it were intentional. It makes field harder to take down (well, makes it harder to vulch anyway), because you have to take the ack down before you can keep enemy planes from taking off. If it were possible to fly through at 400 mph and kill the ack, you would be invulnerable and the field would quickly be vulched. Instead, you must fly slow to kill the ack, and risk getting shot down by an enemy fighter. That way the defenders have at least a fighting chance of getting off the ground and mounting a defense in the event of a "surprise" attack.
Just curious if my reasoning is true here, I don't expect you guys to give up any sort of secrets or whatever.