Yeah, I've run into that garbage before. I forget the URL, but there's a website put up by a Russian who tries to make it look like most, if not all US victory claims in the Korean war were imaginary, where as, of course, the Russians who fought secretly in that war were the best thing since sliced bread.
Oh, and apparently Erich Hartmann's 352 victories were mostly imaginary too.
The only question he hasn't answered is, if they were, why did the Russians put him in prison for 10 years AFTER WWII?
I've not seen IL-2/FB, and likely won't. I have the first one, and gave up on it after about 2 weeks of trying to play it.
I've not tried to loop an I-16 right after take off in FA, but I don't think it can be done.