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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: frank3 on October 24, 2004, 06:43:05 AM

Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: frank3 on October 24, 2004, 06:43:05 AM: Does the performance of a plane decrease when you're damaged? For instance, landing gear, rudder, elevator etc. damaged.
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: GRUNHERZ on October 24, 2004, 07:19:55 AM: Apparently if a plane loses a wingtip it only gets faster...
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: Darkish on October 24, 2004, 09:23:26 AM: frank3 - have you really never lost an elevator or an aileron?
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: frank3 on October 24, 2004, 09:41:16 AM: Im talking about speed, ofcourse I have had damage before, but I haven't looked at the speed (was it dropping, and if so, how much)

Im talking about loosing a wing or engine....................... ..................
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: SlapShot on October 24, 2004, 10:05:55 AM: Quote
Originally posted by frank3
Im talking about speed, ofcourse I have had damage before, but I haven't looked at the speed (was it dropping, and if so, how much)

Im talking about loosing a wing or engine....................... ..................

Lose an engine in a P-38 and you will definately get much slower. Lose an engine in a P-47 and you will get real slow ... real fast.
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: frank3 on October 25, 2004, 06:01:42 AM: Im sorry, it should be: 'Im not talking about...'

But when you loose a gear or rudder, will you loose speed or anything?
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: JB42 on October 25, 2004, 10:16:36 AM: I was in a fight at about 22k in my 109F against a Spit9 I think. Anyway I lost an elevator. Didn't notice if I got slower or not, but did notice some severe handeling problems. Shortly after that I lost my left wingtip. Within a few seconds i was doing about 520 mph.

2 Seconds later I hit the ground ;)
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: Falstaff on October 25, 2004, 01:36:34 PM: I suppose loss of a wingtip means less lift, and less lift means less drag. An airplane with no wings at all with the engine still running will go very, very fast (until it hits the ground.)
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: Flit on October 25, 2004, 01:43:13 PM: I think hes wondering if there is increased drag or vice/versa from battle damage -i.e. If I have bullet holes in my wing will it slow me down because of the airflow being disturbed, type of thing
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: frank3 on October 25, 2004, 03:27:46 PM: That's exactly what I was wondering Flit, tnx
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: Flit on October 25, 2004, 09:39:33 PM: NP:aok
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: Swoop on October 26, 2004, 02:17:56 AM: I seem to remember HT mentioning something about this when AH2 was still in dev. However, I also remember HT mentioning something about bullet holes appearing where you got hit during the dev of AH2 and I havn't seen that yet........bullet holes appear generically on my FE.

Don't know. Here's hoping HT comments.

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Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: humble on October 26, 2004, 10:47:44 AM: Actually I think bullet holes do appear roughly where your hit...guessing they are "preloaded" and you get closest one.
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: frank3 on October 26, 2004, 11:12:05 AM: <--- agrees
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: OOZ662 on October 26, 2004, 09:03:59 PM: Bullet holes do appear, go into the TA and have someone M16 you all around.
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: pellik on October 26, 2004, 10:47:04 PM: I lost both wing tips in a f4u once and out ran an la7. Missing parts will speed you up, but not much if that change isn't symmetrical.
Title: Performance with damage question
Post by: Midnight on October 27, 2004, 04:00:19 PM: Loosing wingtips makes you faster

Rip off your landing gear and there is no performace loss. Loss of the entire main gears (especially fully enclosed when retracted types) should put a huge drag factor on the airframe and cause a lot of speed loss.

Also asked for several times is loss of output engine power when it is damaged (not the current instant dead engine effect). Like if the oil is hit, the engine begins to loose power gradually, rather than running at full power until the oil is gone.