Friday 2010-04-09 Discussion Thread

[Zorin]

Well sorry, but that bump map is ridiculous. Germans actually knew what flush riveting meant and any odd real picture of a Dornier 17 or 215 will show you that.

[Viking]

If only Oleg et conc could understand the importance of the friday updates. We (I) go to a lot of hazzards in order to get to a internet connection and after a week of waiting....POF!
Nothing!

[nearmiss]

Why don't you just send Oleg or Luthier a PM message. I don't think either of them will bite you.

[AndyJWest]

Germans actually knew what flush riveting meant...

Well, if I was being really picky (), I'd suggest that if a rivet was actually 'flush', ideally you wouldn't be able to see it. I suspect that most airframe rivets tend to become more prominent over time, but does it really matter? If you are close enough to the Dornier to see the rivets, you are probably about to collide with it anyway. I'd say that what a plane looked like from 300 yards was more important.

Eye candy is good, but not at the expense of realism in other things.

[BLR_Tonin_fr]

Nice one Foo'bar... Got me.

[Skoshi Tiger]

I think the .303's are porked!

All the bullet holes in the 17 are round, which means the .303 rounds were all fired at 90 degrees, Now unless the Dornier was stationary the holes should be oval.

Now the 175 grain .303 round is 31mm in length and travels at about 2445 foot per second (at the muzzle) which works out at about 745725mm per second, so it takes about 0.000042 of a second to travel the 31mm from the tip of the bullet to its butt!

Now lets say the Dornier is traveling at 300km/h thats about 83333mm per second

So in the 0.000042 seconds it takes the bullet to travel the 31mm the plane will have traveled about 3.5mm, so the bullet hole from the .303 round should be an oval about 7.9mmx11.4mm.

The graphical representation of the said bullet holes is porked Q.E.D

Time for another beer!

Cheers!

{ All simple mathematical an logical (and spelling) errors a proudly of my own making! }

[Erkki]

Whats this then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfa578J4-Jk

[DK-nme]

Originally Posted by Erkki

Whats this then?

Is that from the movie "The german"?


DK-nme

[Erkki]

[Necrobaron]

Originally Posted by Erkki

Whats this then?

I long for the days when flight sims look like that. Maybe a generation or two after SoW?
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