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Old 09-27-2010, 06:26 PM
Flanker35M Flanker35M is offline
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And what we lack in IL-2 in the Me262 is the control of the "onion" in the exhaust as the compressor intake was not adjustable. The "onion" was not an automatic thingy and that partially contributed to the delicate nature of the 262...when pilots achieved a good setting they rarely changed it. In today's jets we have the ECA doing that job. One thing was quite novel for that time though and is used even today. The turbine wings run hot and Germans had a bit of problems with metallurgy during war so they made the turbine wings air cooled thus giving some extra margin.

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