FWs Durabillity

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Originally Posted by Jumoschwanz

I was flying a FW190 this past weekend and an allied aircraft made an off-angle shot and sprayed me with his fifties. It apparently took out my prop governor because when I tried to use throttle it over-revved and then quit running.

That might not be a special damage effect, but just the way that IL2 models the death of the FW-190s engine due to cumulative damage. There are several other planes in the game which have similar "engine death" effects.

But, if that effect is actually modeled, it's a nice bit of work.

Originally Posted by Jumoschwanz

All the different WWII aircraft were just that, different. They were made in different parts of the world with different materials and designed by different engineers.

Partially agreed, but the materials and construction techniques of the era were more or less the same, although quality certainly did vary. Those facts can be used to give us a baseline for airframe durability, and possibly engine durability.

My damage model testing has also shown that there are some huge discrepancies between a plane's ability to take damage in the game as compared to a similar plane's ability to absorb damage. For example, identical engines can vary widely in their ability to take damage depending on which aircraft they're mounted in.