[Ironwrench]

Check out the amazing detail in this video. It is almost impossible to tell this is not a real aircraft. Smoke, explosion and bullet effects are also amazingly real. I have wondered why the curved sim aircraft surfaces are still faceted. I suspect this is due to the amount of CPU and memory resources required to accurately reproduce a truly smooth curved surface. Still IL-2 is getting chillingly close to a window on reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Im086TCu3I

The Wrench

[boogabooga]

Nice video, but as far as I can tell this is CGI, not a flight sim and certainly not "off the shelf". Probably very expensive professional software on a very powerful rig, but just animations and no AI or anything like that. We'll get there, but we have a ways to go, I think.

[Planemad]

Sorry to upset

But this is from the History Channel. Its a show called Dogfights uses state of the art technology

Sorry

Planemad

[George Formby]

Seeing that video was like a smack in the face!!! To see that ole B-17 fight off all those meatballs, all I can say is DAMN!! Now that's American tenacity at it's best!! Salute to Old 666 crew!

[{HVY-E}Jinxx]

This video is actually from the TV series 'Dogfights' from the 'Against All Odds' episode.