Mossie speed

[Al Schlageter]

Bye, yee of myopic tunnel vision.

[Seeker]

A couple of nice accounts of Mossie/262 encounters.

The second one shows as aspect of speed/endurance we often forget in our game.

No one would deny the P51 is ultimately a faster plane than the Mossie, but read how the Mossie pilot kept having to throttle back for the sake of his Pony escorts:

http://www.mossie.org/stories/Norman_Malayney_2.htm

[mondo]

If out IL2 mosquito tried a 450mph dive and a corkscrew it would break apart.