Spitfires

[Kweassa]

read or get a beter vocabulary i said decapitate which meads no head that sad aa you lost your account we will miss you and o ya your entire squadron changed teams and the reson i have a sad face is that you have a bad vocabulary

 ....

 I admire you for being a shining example of the importance of "vocabulary" and "grammar".

[gripen]

I flew this one today, no idea what if it's the IX or V (the owner did not know). However it had an extremely gentle stall, rolled well, unlimited vertical climb and the most difficult thing was the landing because it just keep on gliding. Luckily we were flying from a frozen lake so there was plenty of room. Picture was taken about 14:30; flash was needed because it's darkening so early this time of year here in Finland.

[VansCrew1]

cool.

[DarkglamJG52]

Thx for the info WideWing.

[RumbleB]

Spit9 is my fav for staying alive against multiple enemies and general also general furballing. + it comes in pink

[Stixx]

Originally posted by Greebo

The Spit Mk I has 8 .303 inch machine guns which are only marginally effective at close range  

Set your convergence to 200, hold your fire until you're within that range, and these marginally effective guns will take a wing off.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by Stixx
Set your convergence to 200, hold your fire until you're within that range, and these marginally effective guns will take a wing off.

Yup.  I've even moved convergence down to 175 on the 8-gun British fighters.  At close range those little .303s can really chop a plane to little pieces.

- oldman

[Anaxogoras]

Spit V: Underpowered compared to those above the V is the best turner among the non-carborated Spits and will turn with nearly anything in the game. If furballing is your thing, where speed, acceleration and climb rate are less important than pure turning ability this is the Spit to choose.

FYI, the SpitV still had a carburator, but with a modification to prevent the negative G cutout experienced by the Spitfire MkI and Hurricane MkI.

Without fuel injection, the throttle response of the Merlin was not comparable to, say, the DB601 or DB605 series.

[Kev367th]

Originally posted by Anaxogoras
FYI, the SpitV still had a carburator, but with a modification to prevent the negative G cutout experienced by the Spitfire MkI and Hurricane MkI.

Without fuel injection, the throttle response of the Merlin was not comparable to, say, the DB601 or DB605 series.

The high tech mod -

A diaphragm with a calibrated hole called "Miss Shillings Oriface" as it was developed by Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by splitatom
read or get a beter vocabulary i said decapitate which meads no head:( that sad aa you lost your account we will miss you and o ya your entire squadron changed teams and the reson i have a sad face is that you have a bad vocabulary

Oh god, can we ban him from posting anymore until he learns the English language? Is that possible? HTC? Anybody?

[alskahawk]

I like the Spit IX for most fights. Decent speed/excellent turning ability/good weapons. You can usually out turn what ever you can't out run. And not usually Eny affected.

[Angus]

All of them had carburators. After Mk II they were modded (pressure) so that they wouldn't cut under negative G's.
And, AFAIK carburators work fine in high altitude....

And Gripen...coool
I envy you a lot here, and the funny thing about the little thing floating on forever before landing fits very well with live accounts of the Spitty. Same goes with the climbing.

[MiloMorai]

Angus they also got induction carbs which were fuel injection devices.

Did the P-51 have 'carb' issued?

[SgtPappy]

By the time the P-51 entered service with the Merlin engine, the carburettor issues were largely cured. The P-51 was using an engine similar to the Spitfire IX's Merlin 60-series and it therefore did not have the negative-G cutouts experienced by Spit/Hurri crews had felt in 1940.

[Anaxogoras]

Throttle response is something that is missing from AH, as well as adjusting mixture and other engine controls.  But too many people would complain if it took 5 seconds of adjusting controls to engage WEP in an La-7, while LW pilots would barely lift a finger.  I'm no engineer, but Spitfires and P-51s (to name two) would certainly suffer compared to 109's and 190's with the introduction of more accurate engine models.