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Old 01-10-2012, 12:13 AM
palidian palidian is offline
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Since real planes don't have throttle in percent, i curious as to how you arrive at the statement above. Manifold pressure/boost/ATA and rpm and fuel are the relevant factors.

As to top speeds,

1) top speed is at a certain altitude,

2) its in TAS

Something that numerous people seem not to understand.

As to this idea that Russian planes are exempt, enjoy your conspiracy theory. For every 'red' plane thats uber, I can point to examples of a 'blue' plane thats uber, and vice versa.

Top speeds for planes is not an exact thing, depends on many factors, configuration of the plane, You can easily find several different 'top speeds' listed for example, the spit mk 1, all depends on which test you look at.
No conspiracy theory here, its a fact.

All I know is in game that my 417 mph plane gets outrun by a Russian 403 mph plane, so I changed to a 437 mph aircraft and still got outrun, by the same 403 mph plane. Where a 410 mph Japanese plane gets left in the dust. How does one explain that? Something is wrong with the aircraft models.

You are correct that top speed is a factor of many things, however are the official rating incorrect? In the case of Japanese planes, yes. When tested with US 100 octane fuel, the speeds were much higher, then on Japanese fuel. The Japanese build great aircraft, but did not have the resources to make them function.

So tell me how a La 5 at 403 mph outruns a F4U1A, at 417MPH, and outruns a P51D at 437mph yet the A6M2 at 410mph gets left behind?
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