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Originally Posted by IvanK
Capt Stubbing you said:
"Several Planes having the ability to break Mach in a Dive. P47, Dora and Tempest come to mind…"
Are you saying these aircraft could exceed Mach 1 in a dive in Real life ? If so is there documentation to support this?
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I didn't say that this is true of real life.... This is possible in the game though
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Originally Posted by IvanK
With regards P38 compressibility are you saying its happening at too high an altitude and too low an airspeed or that it shouldn't be happening at all below 10,000 feet.
In reality it is a straight out Mach number issue with recovery G also being a variable.
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Let me look it up but the bird any version shouldn't suffer any problems below 10k. This is old stuff but I know for sure all the 38s we have suffer way way too early in terms of speed. Again let me get some numbers put together for you. These are based on the copies of the manuals I have.
Regarding P51 Wing shedding are you referring to Speed/aerodynamic affects (like air getting into the wing structure and ripping it apart) or Structural loss via Over G ?[/QUOTE]
Yeah not talking about exceeding Vne but talking about pulling any sort of G at certain speeds will rip the wing off. This was a problem with some of the early versions but it shouldn't be an issue in the later D models