Amazing Details Here!

[White Owl]

Maybe not quite as cool as yours, but...

I was flying a Hurricane, and was bounced by some 109s. I got shot up. I was yankin' and bankin' for all I was worth when I heard a strange rumbling noise and the plane's handling seemed to change somehow. I looked around, and saw my left wingtip and aileron were on fire!

That's not the cool part.

This is the cool part. The fire started as just a small burning patch at the trailing edge of the left wingtip. I could "feel" the Hurri fighting the increased drag, wanting to yaw to the left. In a few seconds, the fire smoothly spread to cover about the last 25% of the wing, including most of the aileron. As the fire spread, I could "feel" the aerodynamics growing steadily worse. Most impressive to me, the loss of roll authority was gradual as more material burned off that aileron. No more "aileron controls damaged" and the stick goes dead.

The damage models in '46 were and still are so very much better than just about any other game... and what I experienced in that burning Hurricane was way ahead of anything in '46.