Why I dislike IL-2 games..

[David603]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

Well there you go. I learned something new lol.

Did a bit of searching and reading. Can't find any mention on why the allison engine suddenly didn't need to have then airscoop on top rather than underneith the engine. It seems to me to be part of the modification that gave the allison a two stage supercharger though. I now know that most the Twin Mustangs went back to using Allisons (even though they were weaker) for political reasons. I expect these fake engined Mustangs are from old F-82's and are all in the US then and why Ive never come across one.

One thing I can't understand. I still count 6 exausts in the photos?

Perhaps the exhausts from the Merlin are still being used? It should be possible, since both engines are V12s of a similar configuration. It would also make the V-1710 sound more like a Merlin.

Something else I found out about civilian Mustangs is that removing the military equipment (guns, armor, surplus fuel tanks and WWII vintage radio equipment) shaves off around 2,500 lbs from the Mustangs weight, which is roughly a quarter of the loaded weight of a wartime P51D. If the guys who made the Flight 1 P51 for FSX used one of these Mustangs for their flight characteristics, then no wonder it flies so well