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Originally Posted by Flanker35M
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Well, Helmut Lipfert said the radiator flaps on his Bf109G slowed the plane down as much as 40-60km/h and used them sometimes to avoid passing a slower target. Anecdotal sure, but seems that the radiators would cause some extra drag thus less speed.
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Just to be clear
I am not saying open rads should not cause more drag, and thus less speed
Far from!
All I am saying is that without logging the data, the sim pilot alone can cause a 40-60kph diff in speed. Thus the 'thing' you are looking for is in the noise of the human error.