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Originally Posted by Baron
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Originally Posted by Sluggish Controls
First post on 1C, and what a treat !
Fantastic images and stunning details.
Does anyone know if aircrafts will produce some sort of grey-ish smoke trail off the exhaust stacks when applying full throttle?
My ref are only movies and books, but apparently pilots could sometimes tell when an enemy was applying full throttle by the additional smoke coming off the engine.
Anyway, just a thought, it's 2am so please be kind !
Cheers,
Slug
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Would be cool, its pretty visible whan looking at youtube vids of Black6 for ex. Could be a framerate thing though. |
This is due to unburnt fuel. You can see a version of it in IL2 already, in some early Russian fighters you get continuous black smoke and a reduction in engine power when you go high. The solution is to lower the mixture.
In the context of what you're saying, abruptly shoving the throttle forward momentarily creates a "surge" of some sort, it goes away after a second or so as the engine stabilizes. I don't know if this happens in aircraft with manual mixture controls (as when you set it manually for a given altitude, it's correct for all throttle positions), but real pilots mentioned seeing it a lot on German fighters. These had automatic systems (analog computers to be more precise), which continuously fine-tuned the mixture. So, when going to full throttle it took a second or two for the system to stabilize due to its analog nature.
Even in modern piston engined general aviation aircraft, it is usually advised to move the throttle smoothly, in order to have time to diagnose possible problems but also to prevent "drowning out" the engine with too much fuel. Of course, combat aircraft are built with different tolerances and in the heat of combat one doesn't always have the luxury of being smooth with the controls, so they slammed the throttles if for example they got bounced and the "black trail" effect happened as a result.