RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang
In the 2610 that I've been flying, you don't look to knock people out of the air.
But it happens. Mid-airs are a fact of life in combat. No one I know trys to cause mid-airs, but we sure get in to plenty of them anyway.
The better you fly, the more mid-airs you have (well, roughly, anyway). And the more combat you fly, the more mid-airs happen.
I've had contests where I've had as many as 8 mid-airs in 6 rounds. If every little tap blows your airplane to bits, you won't be flying much. That's the problem with "conventional" balsa/ply construction in combat.