Does the Hurricane catch fire?

[topgum]

Originally Posted by topgum

One word to the pics 6 A & 6B: They are showing an IC-hit at the rudder. Only Scrennshot from inside of a buring Hurricane. After having done that, the external view shows, that it is allready over

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Hope I am not doing an infraction by showing the other pic mentioned here:

6 A Hurri burning .jpg

6 B Hurri fire stops burnig.jpg

7 Hurri_flown_by TG_buring.jpg

11 TG Hurri under attack_ hit.jpg

Haven't load up the "poor-109-on-six-shooting-skills" 8-10, though

[MB_Avro_UK]

Originally Posted by topgum

You made me working, man !
Methodic as I am, first I created Dogfighting-mission, 3 Hurris against 4, later 8 109, equipped with IC-ammunition only, #1 Group AI, modified like shown in this http://www.bobgamehub.blogspot.com/2...-of-dover.html to avoi ammowaste, 2# group 2Vets, 2 Average, after very bad expierence that the enemy 109s hit anything in the first tries. See the fotos 8-11, how dificult in this setup it is that a 109 hits me in a Hurricane, and didn't any F16-snaproll!

For some reasons I can't understand yet, the most hits I got made nice piercings in the hurris, but they setted nothing in to fire. Like it is shown in pic 1! I brought this cracked bird back home (I had even a kill in this fight against 8 E4s, good man, topgum), Jerrys still swirling arround me, going on attacking, so finaly, after having landed, I got a hit, died, the tank took fire immediately (read damage report:"Kraftstofftank 3 Feuer!")
For the reason that I was killed, I couldn't take a screenshot from inside, like it is the same in pics 7 & 11
Furtheron, you see the evolution of the fire how it takes the whole plane. Intesting: Pics 3 & 4 are showing how the left wingtip fell off, this happens after 20 minutes, laterone it happens to right wing as well.
I've got the impression, that the direction of the fire-evolution was more dued to the wind direction, come from 30°-angle (Runway heading to 270°, Wimlington)
than to the damages, which was bigger at the right wing.
The 5th pic shows the final state, after more than one hour.
There was no explosion, neither in the tanks, neither in the ammunition. The leaking of the fuel under the wing, however, hasn't stopped.

One word to the pics 6 A & 6B: They are showing an IC-hit at the rudder. Only Scrennshot from inside of a buring Hurricane. After having done that, the external view shows, that it is allready over

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Pics 6A-11 are showed in the following post

I resume:
#1 A Hurricane flown by "natural-intelligenc",lol, in SP-mode takes fire, also by a hit, not only by flying over blewn up fuelstorages!
#2 This happens very, very rarely, because of the poor aiming skills of AI-opponents, even with maxed out aircombatkills! They don't try to fiddle with the rudde a bit, to try to get a laterl hit in the vulnerabele parties.
#3 Shall it happens, you need a direct hit in a fueltank, See pic 2. (German)IC-ammo seems to be quite useless. See pic 1, the hits in the tank area hadn't been harmfull.
#4

There is an evolution from a beginning small-fire to an inferno, no explosion caused by it, though.

But aggree 100%. A/C has to be set much easielier in fire, especially the ol'Hurricane!

Good analysis. Thanks for your efforts.

Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

[topgum]

Originally Posted by MB_Avro_UK

Good analysis. Thanks for your efforts.

Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

With greatest pleasure!
Let's hope that the developpers take notice of it!