BF109's and Stukas too hard to shoot down? Anyone else finding this?

[Rather peeved]

i actually reckon this is one of the few areas of the game they got absolutely right.

Read Len Deighton's book about the BoB, Fighter. he talks about british pilots being utterly frustrated about emptying every .303 bullet they had into an enemy plane and it simply sailing on unaffected. when they trialled canon the results were spectacular, but the early versions jammed badly.