Inspired by your report, I took on allmost the same mission; put myself in a 110 against 2 Sunderlands. No other planes were in this mission.
There are some weird things about the Sunderland's behaviour in this game:
- After a few shots to the #2 engine of the first one, the crew bailed out
- I gave chase to the second one, and it started a series of rolls, so fast that I think the 110 would have had problems keeping up. I chose to fly level and steady behind the huge flying boat instead.
- After a few hits in the #2 engine, also this crew bailed.
- I cheked up on the first plane again, and it flew happily along on one wing:
- I went back to the second, and it flew slow circles, loosing heigt rather slowly, while flying allmost knife-edge.
- After a while the starboard wingtip hit the water and broke off. The rest of the plane flew on, knife-edge, for a few hundred meters before it chrashed into water and disappeared instantly.
After quiting the mission, I was told I had damaged the Sunderlands 4% each. But number of Sunderlands shot down was 0.
This was not too convincing. But overall, I love the game.
Skarphol