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City:Mahomet, Il. US
Personal Data:Male, born: August 15 1948
Membership22years 312days ago.
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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Rules
Subject:Re: Aircraft characteristics - Any comments?
Posted by: Phil Hall - 19years 267days ago.
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HeadMMoid wrote:
Phil Hall wrote:
If you want to know how to determine the hits, here's how it was done,

Wings- 1 box for every 10 square feet of wing
Fuselage-1 box for every foot of length
Tail. small-4 boxes (Dr-I, Nieuport
large-6 boxes (Albatros, etc.)
Engine- Rotary-6
Inline-8
Fuel. 12 1/2 boxes per half hour of endurance.

Since we have you here, I have to ask about something which has been bothering me since I first played Blue Max in about 1990. Why 6 boxes for a rotary and 8 boxes for an inline engine? Every reference I have ever read indicates that the rotary engine was significantly more reliable and robust. I would have expected that the engine better able to absorb damage would have more boxes.


Rotarys were totally exposed to gunfire from the front. Plus knocking bits and pieces off them tended to unbalance the rapidly spinning engine. Inlines present a smaller target from the front plus damage doesn't have the potential for tearing the plane apart the way a rotary that has lost a piston cover does.

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