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Originally Posted by Pursuivant
Yep. Almost too easy to set them on fire. Amazingly tough airframe, amazingly vulnerable fuel tanks. They light up just like Bettys (G4M1). I'm assuming that the early versions didn't have self-sealing fuel tanks. Assuming it's not an error in modeling, it was badly misplaced design priorities by Vickers.
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Agreed. Not sure if its meant to be that way or not but they are surprisingly easy to bring down if you aim for just on the outboard of either engine... the crew will bail fairly quickly.