Flying the Spitfire Mk. IX

[funked]

Interesting piece by the late, great, Jeff Ethell for Air & Space magazine.  

http://www.airspacemag.com/ASM/Web/Special/Ethell/pirep2.html

Sure sounds like "Easy Mode" to me.    

Note the comments about the ailerons though.  I'm not sure that aspect is well-modeled in AH.

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[fd ski]

Great article.. thanks


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Bartlomiej Rajewski
aka. Wing Commander fd-ski
Northolt Wing
1st Polish Fighter Wing
303 (Polish) Squadron "Kosciuszko" RAF
308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF
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[funked]

Punt!

[mx22]

Seems like only 308 is interested in the article

mx22

[funked]

Shhhh MX it makes it look like we are laying in ambush.    

Believe it or not I'm interested in hearing anectdotes about the handling of the Spitfire, particularly any defects like the one I mentioned above.

I've brought this stuff up before and I think it should be simulated, if we are to believe the pilots who experienced it.

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[Ripsnort]

A picture of a 308th pilot close up in his ride:

 

"With  room for Ken in the back!"

[mx22]

Hey Rip,

Where did you get a picture of my sweetheart???!!!
Only true Barbie fliers get one... I now suspect you of mortal sin  

mx22

[Bombjack]

 

Believe it or not I'm interested in hearing anectdotes about the handling of the Spitfire, particularly any defects like the one I mentioned above.

I well believe it funked. But then I know you from elsewhere  

Roll acceleration at higher speeds in the Spit definitely seems too great. It's one of the reasons the 1942 MkIX we have is able to survive in a 1944 arena  

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617 Squadron RAF

[juzz]

Hey, I didn't know Polish girls were that pretty!  

[Jochen]

 

Roll acceleration at higher speeds in the Spit definitely seems too great. It's one of the reasons the 1942 MkIX we have is able to survive in a 1944 arena.

Agree on that. What I have read was that in high speeds Spit tended to have stiff ailerons. I think WB had this but in AH the roll rate does not suffer noticeably. That makes 190's roll rate advantage a smaller issue than it was in real life.

Dare I hope fix for this issue?

This is also on reason why Spit XIV would not be too uber, I think it's roll rate is not much bettern than of IX's.

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jochen

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