Friday 2010-04-09 Discussion Thread

[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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[Novotny]

Oh that's clever. I wasn't sure if that was nonsense or not until about three quarters through (showing, perhaps, a measure of hopeful thinking)!

[Romanator21]

Skoshi, I'm asking for folks to chill who are starting to go at each others' throats. Not you or your request specifically.

However, with regards to bullet holes, Oleg already acknowledged that elliptical bullet holes based on hit angle will not be possible (in the first installment at least). Cheers.

[Richie]

Is that from the movie "The german"?




Yes!!!!

[Richie]

http://www.thegermanmovie.com/

[AndyJWest]

Ibuchile writes:

I consider game developing a new form of art...

But is it a new form, or an old form expressed in a new medium? Consider chess, or poker. In both cases, one is involved in combat in an'imaginary' arena, but with real opponents. Inventing new worlds to fight in seems to be a very old human trait...

(sorry, came over all anthropological there...)