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05-09-2012, 10:34 AM
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Online if you blow up a 109's fuel tank, they will run out of fuel within a minute or less and the engine will stop. In a few cases, I have seen where the fire spreads to the cockpit area and the pilot is forced to bail or die.
I have seen the same thing occur with Hurricane wing tanks. Large explosion, plane continues on. 
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#2
05-09-2012, 01:50 PM
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It's a bug. The fuel tank "explodes" but doesn't damage the aircraft.
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05-09-2012, 06:59 PM
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its funny now, but i was absolutely crushed and shocked after the first time it happened.. I was so thrilled at my apparent 'skilled' deflection shot, only to be completely dumbfounded to see the 109 wheeling back around to get on my six after I banked away 
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05-09-2012, 07:02 PM
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From external view I could see my 109 keep flying away, relatively unscathed. A previous poster was correct though, when he said that the 109 will run out of fuel in very short order. Over England, I'd bet against him getting back to France, even with a full tank.
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#5
05-09-2012, 07:08 PM
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I think either the fireball is wrongly depicted because tank did not explode but just was damaged. Or the damage model is not right. If it explodes it should make a big hole or even ripp of large chunks of the plane.
BTW: Are there by chance planes that do not explode at all?
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#6
05-09-2012, 08:26 PM
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It is laughable how often the wing tanks on any of the blue bombers explode and rip the wing off at the engine. That has to be the most common method of bomber destruction when I fly red. However, it is few and far between that an engine catches fire, seems it should be the other way around.
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05-09-2012, 08:34 PM
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The flight and damage models are just borked in a general sense.
I was saying in another thread that it's trivially easy to de-wing a Blenheim. No cannon required.
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#8
05-10-2012, 06:09 PM
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As far as I can tell for their reports this combination of events must happen: -Tank must be nearly empty -Tank must be heated -Tank must have proper Fuel/Air Ratio -Tank must have the proper pressure -Tank must be exposed to a properly powerful ignition source All these add up to a pretty specific and rare event.
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#9
05-10-2012, 08:54 PM
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gimpy: I agree!
Exploding aircraft may not have been something impossible but it surely was a rare event. As gimpy explained the window for explosion has to be met and this window is considerably smaller than the window for explosion. Please don't believe Hollywood.
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#10
05-11-2012, 12:43 AM
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that is something i was also thinking, tho mostly because the fuel tank explosion happens pretty frequently and 'early' in the plane's progression of damage... usually i get coolant punctures with the first couple seconds worth of bullet strikes... its in the next seconds worth that usually triggers the explosion... unless im fairly accurate at hitting the cockpit area of the fuselage (which im most likely not  ) then the total destruction of the fuel tank is definitely too easy to damage.One other thing... If the tank does explode wouldnt the force of the explosion sever some if not all control cables? Im pretty certain that it would cut the cables goin back into the tail section (rudder and elevators). because right now other thank looking pretty, it has no secondary consequence Last edited by Biggs; 05-11-2012 at 12:47 AM.
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