Thread: F4u-4 and F8F
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Old 09-26-2013, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by horseback View Post
Try taking it all the way down to 80%; the F4F is generally sluggish unless you're getting salt spray on your windscreen (at which point 120%/Full Rich Mixture will help keep your engine cooler), but many aircraft benefit from starting in low gear and gradually shifting to a higher gear for sustained speed and run still keep temps below overheat.

I had a thread that centered on acceleration tests the last three or four months; a lot of useful information can be found there, and if you can find the Pilot's Notes for the Martlet or F4F somewhere, there will be some Good Stuff there too.
Yeah, hellcat is a bit uglier than wildcat. But out of all navy fighters, corsair is my favorite. Just hate the fact that we don't have -4 in this game.
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