Pure morning i've been playing with the smoke a bit, and i'm going to need to find some smoke tutorials, or shaders because its all a slolid color. But the reason why you're airfield wont work is i need the smoke to be pushed up and down away from the ship, not just one direction. I'm thinking of just having the ship emerge and forget about the colisions. I know i'm going to need a second (or third sortof interpolated) group of emmitters for the inside fire color of the smoke cloud. Heres a shot of it right now.