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Originally Posted by Pugo3
And all respondents thus far have side stepped the Mig 300 engine that was provided by the Ubisoft team according to the designers specs, but that I understand from others posts in previous forum threads was not in fact a successfully accomplished jet engine - yet participants in Il-2 can see what the projected aircraft might have been, all in good fun, let's not take ourselves too seriously.
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On that I agree completely, with all my persuasion and prejudices.
Staying strictly on topic, estimated performances were rarely met by prototypes, with production machines falling further behind. In my opinion, downgrading estimated performances is a measure of realism, if the word “realism” can be used for a paper airplane. Upping performances to suit designers hopes, usually related to more powerful engines, goes in the opposite directions. Not a bad thing per se, but away from what I personally like in Il2. Perhaps I should add that, after an immediate enthusiasm, I got disenchanted with the whole 1946 add-on.
In the end, I agree with El. I would have preferred more operational types. A flyable Helldiver instead of Lerche, a late model Ju88, or Ju188, instead of Mig 300, and so on.
This preference makes mi comments here surely biased, and I apologize for that.