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Originally Posted by Fighterace
Or the Hawker Tempest with 11lbs & 15lbs boost?
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Again, references seem to be the biggest problem here. I tried years ago without success to get a full range of charts. There are a couple of charts for 11 and 13lb boost and the different Sabre II engine variants but they weren't for a full range of altitudes nor were they including the climb rates either.
Allegedly Closterman (famous Tempest ace) had a late model Tempest V Series II with likely a Sabre IIC and Rotol propeller running at 13lbs of boost. This would be JF-E "Le Grande Charles". Some of that may be exaggeration by the author himself compounded with decades between writing his book and the actual events of when he wrote his diary for example but I'm not sure.
If I came to choice between a Typhoon (immensely useful from 1942 and on depending on model) or a high powered Tempest... I'd pick the Typhoon. Of course the work is not comparable. A flight model is likely a fairly "easy" thing to do with the right data versus modelling an aircraft.