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Originally Posted by AndyJWest
And I'm still waiting for a track that can show a sustained turn in a Fw 190 A5 anywhere near 18.7s per 360 degrees. then again, I'd be surprised if you could do that in any true horizontal turn, sustained or not...
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Not that hard, with 25% fuel and without ammo you can easily sustain 18s/360 at sea level, tested on the Moscow map (winter). It's just about how much apple the oranges are. Or vice versa.
Real life testing consisted of a number of 360° turns at 1000m altitude, observed and timed from the ground. At least in the SU. Variances of the results were due to aircraft conditions, atmospheric conditions, flying conditions and piloting skills. While an individual test would give you results with as many digits as one liked, these were rarely used for practical purposes. Usually, as with the Fw 190A-4, there'd be a range of numbers given in whole seconds. The more testing had been done, the better the engineers and pilots knew the plane, the more constant the plane performance was, the smaller the range would be.
07-05-2010, 07:53 AM
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