Level bombing in the Blenheim

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Originally Posted by ElAurens

You guys are flying a very different Blenheim than I am then.

And do you really think it was that hard to keep the engines alive in the real thing?

Poppycock!!!

The model is broken, plain and simple.

It's even worse than the G.50 and I won't try to sugar coat it and say well yes you can fly it, sort of.

It's garbage. I sort of have the feeling that the devs never intended it to be flyable, then thought better of not letting the RAF have any bombers at all, and patched it together for release.

ElAurens, I've been flying the Blenheim exclusively for a few days now and have become quite used to it. I am finding it quite forgiving! If you control the temps with the radiator to keep them at 190-240 you can pretty much do what you want with the boost. All the recommendations about only using 1.0 boost are rubbish - they just aren't using pitch and rads correctly. Keeping the temps under control means not too hot OR too cold. A lot if my early troubles were due to not having enough engine temp since you can't increase boost without adequate temperature.

I routinely climb at over 1000 feet per minute with 4.0lbs and 1800 RPM with the cylinder head temps at 210. I can easily firewall when need be and have no trouble taking off. Does this sound more like the sort of thing you would expect?