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.