One of the devs was talking about how they had made some errors in fuel loads for some of the aircraft.
At a guess this would be along the lines of taking the max fuel load figure for the P51D (489 US Gallons with drop tanks) and confusing it with the max internal fuel load for the same plane (269 US Gallons).
That is roughly 800Kg (1800lbs) added on to the weight of the plane, 20% of the normal combat load, and if this is the case it would certainly go a long way towards explaining why the P51 is slow and handles poorly in game.
Same might apply to the P47, which also used high capacity drop tanks to extend range.
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