Friday 2010-07-02 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

The damage smoke is all wrong! Smoke that thick would rarely come out of an aircraft,

you are probably incorrect in this

a military aviator recently in this forum posted the exact opposite observation, and stated that in his experience the combination of combustible material (incl oils etc) can indeed produce very thick smoke of that type, similar to what oleg posted in an older update (and is seen in this current one).

in historical footage of burning tanks, planes, and other military equipment i have seen before you can also see it to be very dense at times. no doubt current smoke is not final, and depending on what airplane and what part of it is burning this will vary, but completely dismissing the current thick smoke as "wrong" is incorrect in itself.

imo the combination of flames and dense smoke on the stuka and immediately behind it looks very good, the trailing flames and smoke to, but the continuing trail of very dense smoke for several 100 meters (and not dispersing) is probably excessive, but that about it