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Originally Posted by Gaston
It seems stalling speed is unrelated to low-speed sustained turns (which is why the Ki-100 performs so dramatically better than the Ki-84 in sustained turns), just like high speed dive pull-outs are unrelated to low-speed turning, but on the other hand high speed dive pull-out performance does correlate with stall speed quite well. It should; the prop disc load is reduced in the dive by faster incoming air, reducing its influence, and, like the straight-line stall, there is is no slower incoming air in the top prop disc portion to create an assymetrical load...
The FW-190A has exactly the pathetic dive pull-out performance that one would expect for its stall speed, which also correlates well with its high wingloading.
The FW-190A is the only fighter for which Eric Brown states "Killing speed by sinking imposes a Tactical restriction when pulling out from low-level dives".
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The Fw 190 may well have been the only example Eric Brown comments on about the sink involved in pulling out resulting in a tactical restriction. However it wasn't the only aircraft that had a tactical restriction becasue of height loss when pulling out of a dive.
The P51, Spitfire and P47 all had restrictions on pulling out when attacking ground forces. The only exception seems to be the Hurricane which in the Far East were allowed to pull out at tree top height as they for practical purposes didn't mush (the normal word for it)
10-20-2012, 09:19 PM
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