Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Staged Missions => Topic started by: jimson on August 07, 2008, 11:44:06 AM
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With the allied planes, when I nose down, engine slows to the point of stalling, when I pitch back up, engine speeds up.
109 works fine however. Anyone else have this problem?
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Am I really the one that has to do this?The short answer is that the spits had carbeurators at the time and when you nose down it creates a low or no-g enviroment making it impossible for the fuel to make it into the cylinders.
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I'll be damned. Having flown other (later) spit models I never knew about the carb situation.
Must have really sucked for the early RAF pilots.
Thanks for the answer.
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It only affected the mark 1 and the mark 2's possibly
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What I mean is that I can't remember if the mark 2's had carbeurators or not.
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The information I've seen says that Spits and Hurris were affected until around March 1941 (when Miss Shilling's Orifice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Shilling%27s_orifice) was fitted as standard).
On that basis Spitfire Mk I, II, III and Hurricane Mk I and early II (pre IIB) had the negative-G problem.
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In AH, the only planes that will stall under negative G's are the Hurri I and Spit I. Everything else has fuel injection.
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The assumption that later mark Spitfires and Hurricane's with a merlin engine had fuel injection is false. Rather, their carburetors were modified to continue fuel flow during negative G maneuvers. Throttle response in aircraft with fuel injection was superior to aircraft with carburetors, e.g. the BF 109.