I can confirm that you unlock the Spitfire mk XIV in multiplayer. I know a guy that flies it against my beautiful La-7 all the time. He said he unlocked it by getting a hundred kills with the Spitfire Mk IX. He's not 100 percent sure though.

Spitfire Mk XIV or Mk XVI? XIV has a Griffon engine, XVI still has a Merlin like the IX but has a bubble canopy and clipped wingtips.

Since I know that there this Spit unlockable, I spent 3h playing with the IX, and god I'm really a shitty pilot with this one, I unlocked nothing :(

SO MANY BF-109's!!!!!! All i know is i can't wait to start bombing stuff online with my friends...all i need though is a B-17...now how the hell do i do that.

The answer is simple: the plane you use helps unlock another type of plane in the same family. Spits for Spits, 109s for 109s. I have been doing a lot of Strike lately and seem to get a lot of unlocks when I go off bombing. I'm really hoping for that B-17 just to have it, I would prefer a B-24. Lots of anger in this thread, especially considering we don't have any clear picture of the entire unlocking strategy, just a few scarce things here and there.

yes its the SPITFIRE XVI with clipped wings. You bad people are getting david's hopes up in vain :)

I just unlocked weapons for the Po by winning a 'Capture Airfield' game using the Ju. I got one kill and captured the airfield.

If anyone else can post there details of how they unlocked stuff, we might see a pattern

Ah well, I can still fly the Spitfire XIV in Il2 1946:cool:

like I suspected, I started using the spitfire II, and IX and at about 50 kills from playing simulation and realistic I unlocked the following (this is online matches only):

*Spitfire mk XVI (clipped wings)
*Spitfire mk XVI - 2 x 7.7mm Browning machine guns, 2 x 20mm Hispano mk I cannons, 2 x 250 lb bombs

Not to give them any ideas, but what the developers could do in the future is make a DLC pack that unlocks every plane in the game, for a price. Burnout Paradise has this. That way, people who want to put in the time can unlock them for free but those lacking the time and the talent can still download the DLC and get access to their favourite plane, for a price. Don't you guys miss the days of PC when you could just download someone else's save game? I dislike the fact that consoles take away your freedom to mod your own game.