Inaccurate performance data for BOB fighters in COD comparing to RL data

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Originally Posted by whoarmongar

Clearly Mr Lovesey was simply an ignorant self opinionated anonymous trol too fond of his own voice, trying to impress others with his own brand of "knowledge" merely to stoke his own ego.

I would say that noting that Lovesey was on Rolls-Royce's payroll sums it up very nicely. I am sure he was a skilled engineer and all, but obviously R-R was interested in publishing PR articles. The article about carburetors is a fine example, apparantly R-R was trying convince everyone that icing, negative-G cut-outs, worse fuel economy, backfires and so on were actually good to have in an engine.

Whats surprise me though that unlike today, the editors of Flight at the time clearly had the courage to put some distance between them and PR articles, regardless of their paper's interests in advertisement fees. I am not sure they would have the same backbone today.