oleg, sparks in burning planes, crappy example

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Please bear with me.

Once a long time ago up on the farm we were burning off some rubbish, and my brother threw on a a cracked mag wheel off his car. After a while the wheel caught fire a started to burn with an entense blue-white light that lit up everything for about 200 metres in all directions. It was so bright it hurt your eyes to look at it. Every so often it would kick off intense white sparks. It was really impresive.

I expect the light alloys of the planes would also burn in a similar manner.

Cheers!

Burning magnesium will do that

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Let hope these are WIP fire screenies from 1c Team.

They are not looking like high speed fuel/oil fires more like bonfires.

Read the update threads.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Dano

Read the update threads.

Update threads are for noobs

[Avimimus]

And people who have turned into stale corn.

(IMVHO One needs to take into account quantities and types of fuel, airpseed and scale when making such effects - rules that work for campfires don't necessarily scale up - just like a >100 story tall building with an airplane inside it doesn't tip over sideways like a stack of lego bricks - it is very difficult and beyond me to judge what is correct, but I recommend caution in passing judgments etc.)

[swiss]

in fact I would really love to see sparks when you belly land an airplane on a concrete strip.

[Blackdog_kt]

Yes, that would be fantastic. Not to mention the chance of the sparks igniting fuel from leaking tanks, it would make emergency landings really scary.

[Mysticpuma]

Actually in the later add-ons for SoW (I know we aren't even looking at the release version yet) but it would be impressive if details like the above can be added.

I was talking with P-51 Fighter Ace Barrie Davis, and he recalled a take-off that went badly, resulting in his Starboard Wing Tank hitting the ground and coming off the wing. He watched as fuel sprayed everywhere and he had to make an emergency landing. So seeing parts separate from aircraft and sparks as they do would be impressive.

Similarly another 318th Pilot, Harold Kick, remembered colliding with a bulldozer after heading off the runway on take-off (he was a young pilot then) and the aircraft flipped over. He was lucky that the straps held him in, as he nearly broke his neck, but that was the least of his worries as the fuel in the fuselage poured into the cockpit area and Ground Crews just managed to get him out before he drowned in the fuel.

So maybe details like fuel leaks with runway crashes and fires could make an appearance?

Cheers, MP

[KG26_Alpha]

I've never seen sparks from Aluminium personally.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Yes, that would be fantastic. Not to mention the chance of the sparks igniting fuel from leaking tanks, it would make emergency landings really scary.

We would have steel Nuts and bolts, etc so I would expect some sparks, but please no sparks on grass airfields!

[KG26_Alpha]

Most of the structure is Aluminium with very little steel if any, the He111 has a steel wing spar but would take some serious grinding to get anywhere near it.
Typically using steel nuts and bolts is no good as it reacts with the alloy, and adds to the weight of the aircraft dramatically.

Please no sparks and Hollywood style fires and effects, the IL2 series has already suffered exploding planes and Hollywood effects, most belly landings were uneventful affairs.

Besides SoW will be mostly grass airfields and any pilot going for a belly landing will take the grass over the concrete probably.

Wing of P51 replica.