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Old 02-06-2011, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by IceFire View Post
El... was it not the Hawk/P-36 that had the fantastic sustained turn rate and the P-40 had some degradation of this capability?
This may be correct, as the Hawk 75 was considerably lighter than the Hawk 81.
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