12.11.2009, 19:10
Good, yes... Realistic, sort of... Commonplace, no...
If you want to make it uber realistic, go and look at some gun cam footage. The most common thing to have happened when a German fighter got shot up and exploded was for the fuel tanks to have ruptured and exploded blowing off a wing or part of the fuselage and lighting some of the debris on fire but leaving the remaining main parts of the plane without flames for the most part. Oh yeah, the incendiary round thing is great, except there's no way that fuel or oil would have gotten onto it to let it burn in the tail. The round would be going too fast to catch anything without going through something first like another fighter's fuel or oil tanks in which case the the first fighter would have kept the round. On the oil thing... Oil is kept near the engine, not in the wings, so the smoke should be thinner around the wings but thick at the engine.
If you want to make it uber realistic, go and look at some gun cam footage. The most common thing to have happened when a German fighter got shot up and exploded was for the fuel tanks to have ruptured and exploded blowing off a wing or part of the fuselage and lighting some of the debris on fire but leaving the remaining main parts of the plane without flames for the most part. Oh yeah, the incendiary round thing is great, except there's no way that fuel or oil would have gotten onto it to let it burn in the tail. The round would be going too fast to catch anything without going through something first like another fighter's fuel or oil tanks in which case the the first fighter would have kept the round. On the oil thing... Oil is kept near the engine, not in the wings, so the smoke should be thinner around the wings but thick at the engine.