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11-21-2011, 12:09 PM
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Fly with it open but if you do suffer from the energyloss it brings. This needs to be adressed in my opinion. For both sides. Heck droping the 109s canopy doesnt even have ANY negative sideeffects. That shitty. However its one of the samaller issues i consider as "not so urgent to fix". Winger 
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11-21-2011, 12:17 PM
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11-21-2011, 12:18 PM
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Curiously, I never hear the impact of bullets on my own airframe. Anyone else?
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11-21-2011, 01:02 PM
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Sry boys but it's not the supercharger sound that give the Corsair its nickname.
Vought worked hard with Hamilton to fit the Huge PW with a low speed prop. The idea was to get a higher Mach at alt for the airplane in a very clean configuration despite (very relatively) the radial engine The side effect was that in a high speed dive, the prop tips reached the speed of sound with the typical whine as a result. Regarding the pic Tiger posted : how many Spit ace can tell me how that pilot cld enjoy the same rear view as we hve in CoD ?  @Klem : I hear them more and more scarcely Last edited by TomcatViP; 11-21-2011 at 01:05 PM.
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11-21-2011, 01:21 PM
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11-21-2011, 01:37 PM
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Duno if this is helpful or not,
I've read hundreds (literally) of BoB era pilot's accounts. The only time they mention being able to hear enemy aircraft is when they were extremley close. It seems to happen more with head on attacks and almost always the pilot says something like "I was so close I could hear the engines" Geoff Wellum, Peter Townsend, one of the Dundas brothers (can't remember which one), Brian Lane and quite a few others. Another similarity is that this happened as they broke underneath the enemy after a head on attack - a bit closer than they'd like 5-10 meters. I'll try and dig out some of the quotes, one of them was a mid air collision with a 109, the pilot said he heard the 109 just before they crashed. I also recall one Spit pilot flying in cloud with his canopy open hearing a LW Bomber before he saw it, it was about 10 meters off his wing.
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11-21-2011, 02:02 PM
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So a pilot need to pass from a "cruise mode" to "combat mode": I know that P51 had a usefull level to tight/untight their straps in a second, while in other planes pilots need to do it manually. No sound radar, no Reed Richards in the cockpit... maybe you can ambush an enemy plane without having to bnz at 600km/h but simply moving closer.
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 A whole generation of pilots learned to treasure the Spitfire for its delightful response to aerobatic manoeuvres and its handiness as a dogfighter. Iit is odd that they had continued to esteem these qualities over those of other fighters in spite of the fact that they were of only secondary importance tactically.Thus it is doubly ironic that the Spitfire’s reputation would habitually be established by reference to archaic, non-tactical criteria. Last edited by 6S.Manu; 11-21-2011 at 02:12 PM.
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11-21-2011, 10:19 PM
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There seams to be an issue here! Some people say that they can hear the whine and some people say that they can't hear the whine.
Maybe it's not the actual aircaft thats making the noise! Could it be something to do with the pilot? [Skoshi Tiger - Hurried exit stage left] 
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11-21-2011, 11:07 PM
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