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Originally Posted by Black_Sage29
P-51 does "not" bleed off a lot of energy in BnZ. It's one of the best BnZ planes I've ever fought with. You can bounce a bandit at 350mph-450mph, and zoom up thousands of feet back above your target.
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You can come and do this right next to my D9'44, and the pony will be second, especially after several passes. And for the vast majority of times you need several passes in the mustang, loosing lots of E with each pass. The poor one-pass-one-kill capability means most P51 drivers repeat their BnZ attack, and the poor power-to-weight ratio and relatively high wing loading means they bleed lots of E with each pass.
Pony drivers underestimating the D9's diving power are in for a big surprise. I regularly reach 870kph in the D9, the redline being 900kph. Here's a trick we often play on P51s: I'll let one of my A9-flying squadmates move away from the diving pony's 6 o'clock, say to the 5 or 7 o'clock, so the pony driver can see him, and see that the FW is not gaining on him...all while i creep up on his ass unseen and blast him to bits in the D9. Especially the initial dive acceleration is much poorer in the P51 compared to the A9 and D9, power-to-weight ratio being the issue.
02-11-2013, 05:20 AM
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