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Originally Posted by Woke Up Dead
How much difference is there between the dead-stopped and the windmilling engines? I get the impression the crippled Soviet engine might let you glide a little further en-route back to base, but it's just as useless in combat as the dead American engines.
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Fair point... it's not much different although its harder to tell with the windmilling engine from the attackers perspective. You do seem to be able to glide a bit more with an engine windmilling at low RPM than one utterly dead.
I'm curious why the two behaviours exist and why they happen one way to some and one way to others. I'd have figured it fairly normal if it happened one way to all in-line engines and another way to all radials but it's sort of a smattering back and forth and I never could make sense of it.
I think it may give the impression to some that American engines (for example) are more vulnerable in the aircraft that it happens to when in reality is probably about the same across the board. And perception is 9/10ths...
01-07-2013, 10:17 PM
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