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Originally Posted by trademe900
This is a really good post.
Just a thought: I find 2400 although good for outright speed is no good in dogfight, you lose speed too quickly. For dogfight I would rather choose more radiator but full rpm and even boost (if low altitude).
Still, the 109 will not die easily even when hit. It takes an eternity for it to overheat from damaged coolant system. Actually, this goes for all planes.
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Makes plenty sense if the Spits and Hurries were modelled accurately.
Unfortunately, a wide open RAF radiator acts like a drogue chute in this sim, which counters the extra power you get at higher rpms and hence causes your temps to shoot skyward and literally blow a gasket. The devs saw fit to double the Spits' and Hurries' radiator surface area from the previous beta to this one, effectively giving the RAF fighters TRIPLE the surface area over the LW fighters. To add insult to injury, the devs also assigned a drag coefficient of the RAF fighters's rad 40% greater than that of the LW rads -- compounding the overheating problem. Especially if you open your rad greater than 50%.
This is why Dutch found 2400 rpms @ 50% rad to give the best return in performance at 6.2 lbs for controllable overheating (except in performance climb).