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08-12-2013, 09:58 PM
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I wish we could find performance figures for the AVG's Hawk 81s.
Those of us who are true believers know that their engines were assembled off the regular production schedule, and made more power than standard V1710s of their day. The AVG suffered higher than normal prop reduction gear box failures because of this. It also acounts for thier ability to dominate the air space they flew in. (Beyond their superior tactical doctrine). The trouble is there are no documents with numbers on them. Hence no way to translate that into a sim, or convince those who doubt this. Over boosted later models used by Commonwealth forces are easy to do as the documentation exists.
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 Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943. ~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov 
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