Salute

RED BARON turned into what it did because:

a) the designers inflated the performance figures for some aircraft (in particular the Albatros climbrates) while at the same time, they completely undermodelled the performance of others, (such as the climbrate for the Dr1 and N17 series)

b) the engine couldn't handle the complexities of flight, and engine performance

c) the damage code had a large bug in it which warped artificially the flight performance of certain aircraft when they took wing damage

The IL-2 engine is much more capable of handling the details than RED BARON, and for example, it should be able to model the wingloss problem which affected the Sesqui-plane aircraft such as the Nieuport and Albatros.