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Old 08-01-2009, 01:02 AM
Marchochias Marchochias is offline
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Originally Posted by David603 View Post
You are right. The first Mustang, the P51A, was fitted with an Allison engine, which was good enough at low altitude but lacked supercharging and therefore had poor performance at high altitude. The plane in the demo is the later P51D Mustang which had a Rolls Royce Merlin engine.
A Merlin equipped P51D could easily exceed 400 mph in level flight, right?

I can't even get past 250 in the game, though. Am I missing something with the throttle controls? WEP seems to make no different from 100% thrust with acceleration.
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