Neil,
You are amazing man. Did you break into the National arcives or something??
I just got back from a week long business thing (slow death) and I just found your new reports.
What needs to be looked at is this report along with your new F4U and F6F reports listed in there indidual sections. You have posted at least 6 reports I have never seen before. It will be weeks before I can digest all of this information. One of the F6F reports shows test of up to 65" MAP.
BTW, I have too ask, there is mention of a comparitive test between F4U and F6F in your F6F-3 test report index conducted at Patuxant. Needless to say I know you post these reports in full and hold nothing back.
Something else that should be noted are the relative stall speeds of these aircraft as well as climb ability. The Speed of the F6F seems to echo the Vought report pretty closely. I think the Navy new what the true top speed of the F6F was. The airspeed indicator error was discovered before the production of the F6F-5.
The climb speeds of all aircraft are at Mil power according to the climb comparison chart. Notice the F4U-1 climbing in excess of 3,000FPM at 10K at mil power much higher than AH2. I am not altogether sure the speeds were not mesured at Mil as well because all aircraft tested seem a little slow.
Hats off Neil, You da man
