skyline223 wrote on Feb 5^th, 2011 at 6:12am:

*Some aircraft types take fatal damage, some do not. All aircraft do flame and smoke, but some do and some don/t actually "go down".

The same has to be said in single player mode. When I tried to "shoot down" a B737-800, although I hit 3 times using AIM-9 missiles, he went down very slowly, like losing altitude at a rate of about 3000/3500 fpm.  I swung around behind him, lined him up for a fifth shot. BOOM! Hit again and all I got was a thicker darker smoke trail behind him. Eventually, he disappeared below the ground. He was not destroyed, he continued flying about 500 feet below ground level. Wish I had been running FRAPS to capture that! LOL

Mark