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Offline gyrene81

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Re: Re.2005
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2011, 08:33:21 PM »
Quote from: Butcher on May 23, 2011, 06:24:01 PM
Since when does the F6F even come close to 390mph unless in a dive? lol rarely seen it above 325.
take one up to 19,500 feet in a clean configuration, level out til it's as fast as it will go then hit wep...
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Re: Re.2005
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2011, 08:48:58 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on May 23, 2011, 08:33:21 PM
take one up to 19,500 feet in a clean configuration, level out til it's as fast as it will go then hit wep...

Yeah it was a joke, in a normal situation you are lucky to get around 300-330
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Re: Re.2005
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2011, 10:44:16 PM »
In reality it was a 400mph bird, side by side with a F4u1 there was nothing to differentiate (much as each company WANTED theirs to be better). Their max speeds were almost the same. In here it seems we may have an F6F that was tested with an inaccurate pitot placement. There were some errors in some of the tests. I'll leave that up to the Hellcat experts on this forum to go over (I'm only remembering what they have already discussed), but essentially it's a 390mph plane in Aces high, instead of 400+ like its corsair brother.
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