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Originally Posted by palidian
This comes from WWII pilots that when in combat would go full mil power and never have an issue. I have several WWII airplane and engine manuals, and they give lots of warnings, but nothing about running at full mil power. The manual states no more than 5 minutes at WEP or Take off power. Water injection helps cool the engine, if cooling was an issue than the water injection would be started earlier. In addition the higher up you get the colder the air is, it is also thinner however.
The ME262 over heats at 100%, jet engines generally do not get hot (so to speak, at least not to start melting things.) due to there nature.
I will test the cowling effects more.
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In reading Pierre Closterman's The Big Show he often mentions the aircraft engine overheating. Particularly when pushed hard the Sabre would get very hot and he had to abandon the chase when going after a Do335 very late in the war as he had the throttle firewalled but was unable to catch the German fighter.
It's also telling that many aircraft had pins or wires that had to be broken in order to advance the throttle through past the 100% mark into WEP and that breaking the pin or wire was an indication that the mechanics would be required to rebuild the engine when the aircraft landed.
When testing in IL-2 you should also note that the map you're on has an impact on how quickly the aircraft will overheat as well as altitude. Winter maps are cooler while summer maps are warm and tropical or desert maps are even warmer.