Tactics for Cliffs of Dover.

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Originally Posted by Icewolf

who says the spitfire outturns the 109? show me the references from 1940

I think its in Ulrich Steinhilper's book when he is talking about why the allies though the 109 couldn't turn very well. It was that the captured planes were flown in a much "gentle" way. He mentioned that turning for an experienced pilot started when the leading slots opened up with a bang which scared the living day out of the rooky pilots.

He were also talking about the way they climbed. Beginners are always lagged behind on the first few sorties until they learned how to use pitch control in manual settings. He describes the exact way of gaining more power which is valid to the IL2 109s to this day. Use manual pp to overrev a little than switch back to auto straight away before u damage your engine.
He wrote that you could hear if someone with experience flown the 109 from this constant revving.

I might be mixing the source of this, so apologies if this is the case. I will look it up later on when i have access to my books.

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