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Old 06-22-2009, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by DKoor View Post
Anyhow, if you mess around with Bf-109 prop pitch you will gain nothing; at best you will just get crappy performance, at worst you get a ruined engine. It wasn't always like that, but due to prop pitch exploit (109 always climbed like a rocket, but even more so with prop pitch exploit, from Auto to 100%) OM team made manual prop pitch unusable for performance gains in 109's some time ago in some patch (can't recall exactly).
The strange thing is that German really used that exploit during the BoB (Manual Pitch for a faster compression of the air and Auto Pitch for the release of a better boost).

Infact English people could recognize a 109 from a Merlin engined airplane simply hearing the sound emetted fomr the engine: the 109's sound wasn't linear, but was a highrev sound followed by a lowrev sound, while the spitfire sound was quite constant.
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