Do planes ever explode into a fireball ?

[Lord Haart]

Hi,

I can't say I have ever seen this.

I know they did it far less in WW1 than subsequent wars, but I have had pieces falling off, white smoke, thick black smoke etc.

But I have never seen a fireball.

Has anyone ?

How often do you see them if so ?


Thx in advance.

[71st_Mastiff]

yes you can set the panes on fire, but hollywood explosion no.

[Trupobaw]

Handley Page explodes nicely if you hit its fuel tank. Otherwise, down in the flames is "best" you can get.

[bogey]

I've seen only three catch on fire in 250 hours of play. One of them was me in an Albatross DVa. I burned pretty nicely but no explosions.

[FourGreenFields]

Got an explosion once. As Trupobaw said: a Handley Page twin engine bomber. Had burning pieces flying around everywhere. Was pretty.
So it is modelled, but not common.

Fire is pretty common for me. Not every kill, but every other dogfight (Not counting the ones starting to burn when they hit the ground). Might be me aiming more for the engine or something (possibly also better aim due to playing SP, meaning easier opponents?).

[{O|G} Juvenal89]

I flamed a Sopwith Camel earlier this morning--no explosion, but it was on fire all the way to the ground. First time I had seen that.

[Trupobaw]

The wings are somewhat undermodelled in RoF and it's so easy to blow them away, it's hard to set plane aflame unless you purposefully aim for the engine. If you spray the whole plane with bullets, wings just will come off first.

[xvii-Dietrich]

I saw a Handley Page go down in flames tonight. The engines were on fire and there was an horrific plume of black smoke pouring out beind it. As it hit the ground there was a catalysmic explosion leaving just a crater and fragments of wings. This is the first time I've ever seen it so dramatic.

So, yes... explosions are possible, but pretty rare.

[bogey]

I downloaded the MOD package from ROF and found that after that flamers are reasonably frequent, maybe one out of twenty or twenty-five.

[Czar Salad]

Fiery explosions can happen, but they are really rare. Also, the game models it like real life where the closer to empty the fuel tank is, the more likely for it to go up(Keep in mind even then it still will likely be a fire instead of an explosion, they're really rare) since it's the gas vapors and not the liquid fuel that is easily ignited. I recently managed to explode a handley page, but that's the only fireball I've ever seen outside of a video that was made back when they were still unrealistically common.

[Jimmy Space]

Bit late, but I decided to test this on a few Handley Page 0-400s. Given a few attempts and a lot of ammunition they can catch fire and tear appart. It's not quite a movie explosion but it sure is cool.