Karnak: On that particular note, you and I agree.
As for Wmaker, I had a whole post typed up in response to you. Those that read my reply in the first 2-3 mnutes may have seen it. Then I thought "I'm not going to feed this troll" and deleted it.
I brought up some issues you glossed over in regards to the past thread and relevant issues about the topic at hand, but frankly you will never listen to anything that suggests your Finnish Brewster isn't the best turning, most stable, most lethal killing machine compared to any plane up to and including those made in 1944. I'm sorry you feel that way, because yours is the only nation that ever thought so.
Weight savings alone do NOT account for that much of a performance benefit. This has been shown and proven on many other aircraft in WW2, not the least of which was the P-40 airframe, the P-51 airframe, the P-47 airframe, and dozens of others where they tried saving weight but had very little impact on overall performances.
Then this "magical" model of the Brewster with minimal weight savings is suddenly more agile than a zero, tough and fast as a wildcat, and has very few flaws.
Riiiiight.
I'm not basing this off of assumptions. I'm basing it off of a large set of related facts regarding many other aircraft, the performance of similar F2A2s and heavier F2A3s, and many points.
Whereas the only data the Fins produce is the most optomistic out of any nation that flew them (and quite a lot were exported, with more powerful engines that countered the weight gain but still did not create what we have in-game).
I'll step off the soapbox now, and you can insult me all you want. You can say I'm ignorant (which I'm not, on this matter). You can call me "US-only" kind of player, which anybody who knows me can tell you I'm not. Go ahead. It does not refute the fact you have a limited and heavily biased source of flight testing.
As for "staying quiet" -- yeah, that really helps. There are a lot of things inaccurate about how planes are modeled in this game (P-51s, F4us, P-39s, Ki-84s, Ki-61s, a number of others as well), and "staying quiet" never works to get anything fixed, especially when it is known that something is "wrong." To their credit, HTC usually wises up to a lot of issues, especially regarding the flop-stall on the old 109s and 190s, and hopefully including the super-flaps of the current airflow model. HTC is like a glacier IMO. Might take them a while, but they'll eventually get there.
