pilot wounded

[easymo]

 Has anyboudy else been getting this a lot more that usual

[Wardog]

only from attacking b17s & b26s.. rarely ever get a pilot wound from another fighter.

Kinda makes sense though.

Dog out.........

[Nash]

It may be just my imagination... but I seem to only get pilot wounds from 50's. Same with  radiator, fuel leaks etc. I think the heavier cal ammo takes me right outta the fight (boom), whereas 50's tend to allow for more incremental damage.

[Soulyss]

Wardog we've been over this... if you didn't hand your head out the side of the cockpit and let that tongue flap in the wind you wouldn't have this problem so often...  

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[nonoht]

sure by cal.50 or cal.303
do you imagine be wounded by 20mm or 30mm ???
do you like catfood ?  

[StSanta]

Well technically a 20 or 30 mm could hit somewhere else and send shrapnel that hurt the pilot, so it should be possible. A idrect hit is, as nonoht points out, a very effective catfood maker  

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StSanta
II/JG2

[Nash]

20 and 30mm can hit somewhere else and send shrapnel? Wow... I didn't know that. Impressive. You sure about that?

[mx22]

Nash,

Cannon shells exploded on contact with surface, so you got shrapnel as a side effect and I also think that's how they did so much damage compared to 50s and 303s.

mx22

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[Waxer]

I have it on good authority that what many of you think of as "pilot wounded" is nothing more than the pilot looking down in horror at his soiled uniform after a too-near-miss. Kind of "dead faint", you might say...  

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Waxer
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"Nothin' up my sleeve...Presto!"

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[Nash]

Quote - "Cannon shells exploded on contact with surface, so you got shrapnel as a side effect and I also think that's how they did so much damage compared to 50s and 303s." - mx22

Why are you using the past tense? Are you talking about in real life? Well of *course* there's gonna be some secondary damage from these shells. I'm kinda dumb but....  

My first post here was relating my experience with pilot death to the 50's. StSanta suggested it could be due to shrapnel. I was wondering if shrapnel is modelled here, because I haven't heard anything about that.

[Daff]

Actually, I believe there was a delay on the cannon shells so that they would explode inside the plane and not on the surface.

Daff

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CO, 56th Fighter Group