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Title: pilot wounded
Post by: easymo on June 20, 2000, 10:10:00 PM

 Has anyboudy else been getting this a lot more that usual

Title: pilot wounded
Post by: Wardog on June 20, 2000, 10:14:00 PM

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

Kinda makes sense though.

Dog out.........

Title: pilot wounded
Post by: Nash on June 21, 2000, 02:10:00 AM

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.

Title: pilot wounded
Post by: Soulyss on June 21, 2000, 04:20:00 AM

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...   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

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Title: pilot wounded
Post by: nonoht on June 21, 2000, 06:20:00 AM

sure by cal.50 or cal.303
do you imagine be wounded by 20mm or 30mm ???
do you like catfood ?   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Title: pilot wounded
Post by: StSanta on June 21, 2000, 09:13:00 AM

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  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Title: pilot wounded
Post by: Nash on June 21, 2000, 09:40:00 AM

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

Title: pilot wounded
Post by: mx22 on June 21, 2000, 10:10:00 AM

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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Title: pilot wounded
Post by: Waxer on June 21, 2000, 12:11:00 PM

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...  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Title: pilot wounded
Post by: Nash on June 21, 2000, 12:19:00 PM

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....  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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.

Title: pilot wounded
Post by: Daff on June 21, 2000, 12:38:00 PM

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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