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Offline BenDover

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Re: Flight Performance
« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2002, 05:25:33 PM »
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Originally posted by Whitehawk152
Does anyone feel that the Mossie is not as agile as it should be? The Mosquito was a highly capable machine, capable of doing serious ATA damage, Mossies scored over 70 FW190 kills during WW2. Also, I have read that a Mosquito could, after a high-speed run, cut and feather one engine and go vertical, rolling as she went up. No other plane at the time could perform an upward roll with half power.


i found it to handle a bit like a sloppy fish, and also i once had a hard time catching a 110g10 (or whatever the later war model is we have)

it can also go up like a match on a single pass!