Sorry RPS69, what do you mean by "final speed?"
I'm pushing the throttle as long as I can because the enemy behind me is likely doing the same. The engine and propeller may be very inefficient at those speeds, but I need to squeeze out every last km/h and fly faster than the La-7 can dive, and as long as the engine doesn't cook then throttle to the wall is the way to do it. Reducing prop pitch may give me more speed at those extremes, and that's where the automatic systems in the German planes work very well, except apparently in the 190-D9 1945.
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