Tweaking Vanilla Helo - Am I doing it right?

[Rich_R 1087]

I'm reskinning BI's blackfoot attack helo and creating a config to use it a certain faction. I'd like to use the opportunity to make it faster and give it a little more armor. The additional speed would bring it in line with its RL counterpart of being able to reach 324 km/h. However, when I bump up the speed  properties, it doesn't seem to have any affect;

 

maxSpeed = 415; (bumped up from the default of 365)

 

This appears to deliver the same performance as the vanilla. I've tried to research the other properties;

        mainRotorSpeed = -1.0;
        backRotorSpeed = 1.0;

        liftForceCoef = 0.9;

 

But none of those have anything to do with the actual speed of the aircraft.

 

Also, I would like to increase the armor. I understand we've gone into a new world of hitpoints, does increasing the armor value increase the 'robustness' of the aircraft? This is the default;

        armor = 40;

Would increasing that help?

 

Thanks!