I have no idea if that will help either
My dad is a...pain. I've been modding so much because he blocked me from online play, and any website with "Bf1942", "BF2", "Battlefield", or "Gamespy" in the URL is blocked as well (in this case, it was battlefield). At least I'm going to have some nice maps to play with my online buddies when it's back.
*edit*
I found it! It was an accident, I was looking for something else. In textures.rfa, there are some files called LOD_"name of the vehicle". There is one for each of the planes that gave me problems, and then some different vehicles (about two dozen of these weird lod's).