Bomber Speeds

[bolox]

the Ju88 pilots notes translation i've got gives cruise speed at 300m as 350km/h
rising to 400km/h at 4000m. These speeds appear to be TAS which gives an ias of ~320/330 respectively. (cruise settings given are 1/15 ATA, 2250 rpm)

The ingame speed setting appears to be IAS as to retain formation between groups at different height different speeds need to be set (~3km/h drop per 100m of height difference).

Personally i think using these speeds is a little fast to enable a human pilot to maintain formation with ai so i drop the speed a little:- around 280-300km/h for Ju88, 260-270km/h for Do17 and He111 and ~250km/h for Ju87 for flights at ~3000m- very empirical but seems to work out fairly well for offline missions