Bomber Speeds

[5./JG27.Farber]

Ive long since wondered this and have tried to search online for the answer a few times.

How fast do bombers travel?? In the FMB the default value for everything is 300kmh. I doubt very much that every flew about at 300. So does anyone know what kind of speeds He111's, Ju88's, Dornier 17's and Blenhiems cruised around in formation at?

I know the STUKA are pretty slow and generally were not going more than 250 - 300. Anyone got any refrences?

:confused:

[bolox]

the Ju88 pilots notes translation i've got gives cruise speed at 300m as 350km/h
rising to 400km/h at 4000m. These speeds appear to be TAS which gives an ias of ~320/330 respectively. (cruise settings given are 1/15 ATA, 2250 rpm)

The ingame speed setting appears to be IAS as to retain formation between groups at different height different speeds need to be set (~3km/h drop per 100m of height difference).

Personally i think using these speeds is a little fast to enable a human pilot to maintain formation with ai so i drop the speed a little:- around 280-300km/h for Ju88, 260-270km/h for Do17 and He111 and ~250km/h for Ju87 for flights at ~3000m- very empirical but seems to work out fairly well for offline missions

[5./JG27.Farber]

Very informative, Thanks!

Surley the Do17 is one of the faster bombers? Also do were the He111's that slow?

[bolox]

well the Ju88 was a 'schnell bomber' (sp?) and was meant to be faster than the Do/He (by around 30km/h iirc).
I agree the speeds i use are a little slow but i think most planes are a little slow and these speeds allow formation keeping without blowing engines and give me reasonable results in mission building.

Ju88 manual is in this little collection of pilot's notes
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jkxxvwayw9fqbk3

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

Ju88 cruising speed from a quik reference was 239mph/384kph.

In game I can get my Ju88 to 360kph cruise IAS.

Here is a link to the Ju88 Pilots notes with out a login or rar file.

http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?1112-Ju-88-Pilot-s-Note-s