Originally Posted by spahis (Post 244980)

Have you ever seen real tracers shot? I mean real real, not vids. In reality they don't look like flying light sabers but like fireballs. It's the same with every game it seems, i'm surprised nobody ever points it out.

Originally Posted by Space Communist (Post 245195)

As was mentioned this has been debated endlessly. The majority of people with military experience describe how surprised they were that tracers looked like "lasers" (real lasers look nothing like Star Wars lasers but I won't get into that.)

Some people did describe them as more like points, or fireballs as you say. But generally the consensus seemed to be that they only look like points when they are being fired out of a barrel you are looking down, so that the round is not moving much laterally to you. When seen from the side (someone else firing, or a gun in your wing or well underneath you in the nose,) they turn more or less into bars, though often with the front of the "bar" being brighter than the tail.

Now I am not speaking from personal experience so please feel free to correct me, I am simply summarizing the conclusions come to in other threads.

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger (Post 242685)

..erm,this is probably me,but wasn't there a curfew on during the battle of Britain?! What's with all the lit up windows?!?

Originally Posted by major_setback (Post 245249)

I'll repost the link Hecke posted earlier.

Lots of videos here at the Russian Sukhoi forum (this is the second page):

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthrea...t=67882&page=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnADD...layer_embedded

Originally Posted by Dores (Post 245343)

Am I the only one noticing the really obvious looping of the external G50 engine sound?:(

Originally Posted by Sven (Post 244981)

Not necessarily, example: The Airacobra, an American fighter plane, had it's point of gravity in the middle ( since the engine was placed there ), this was purposely done to create a very manoeuvrable airplane. Engine chopped off will surely cause for a very unpleasant flight, but that's the aerodynamics that mainly cause that, the centre of gravity will probably be where the pilot is, and actually improve flight characteristics, although it doesn't add up to what I previously said.