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Title: Broke the sound barrier :D :D
Post by: Yossarian on March 15, 2008, 07:23:37 PM
WOO!! WOO!!

I'm sure I'm not the first, but I'm pleased with myself... :D :D

Offline Training Arena, 20K air spawn, Me-163, Fuel burn multiplier set to 0.001, Wind settings South to North (or was it North to South) 127mph, +127mph wind rise at all altitudes...

Anyways,

(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff100/Yossarianace/ahss1126.jpg)

(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff100/Yossarianace/ahss1129.jpg)

I haven't worked out how to post a film yet.  And there was probably no point in me posting this here, I know, but it's 12:20 AM, I should be studying for my GCSEs, and meh.

<S>

Yossarian


EDIT:  BTW my top speed was approximately Mach 1.22
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Post by: SD67 on March 15, 2008, 07:29:05 PM
:lol
I have to try this out!
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Post by: Wes14 on March 15, 2008, 07:29:51 PM
Weak!  :)
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Post by: Latrobe on March 15, 2008, 07:42:14 PM
I've gotten to Mach 1.15 before without any tweaks to the plane or wind. Did it in TA, climbed to 70K, leveled off, went to mach 0.90 in level flight, then dove. Someone did break Mach 2, but they went offline and set wind to max, and all sorts of other helpful things.
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Post by: Motherland on March 15, 2008, 10:35:03 PM
Haha, Ive gotten to 1.27 w/o wind.
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Post by: Pannono on March 16, 2008, 01:51:46 AM
1.42 with nothing :)
photobuckets bein gay and wont let me upload so ill get pic to u guys ASAP
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Post by: Gowan on March 16, 2008, 02:20:10 AM
my best is .99 in a temp and then it exsploded
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Post by: Larry on March 16, 2008, 02:22:38 AM
TA from a normal base. Iv gone faster before, but heres the only pic I have.

(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/24/1013733/mach%201.31.bmp)
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Post by: colmbo on March 16, 2008, 02:40:25 AM
What does wind have to do with it?  Mach is an airspeed.
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Post by: Larry on March 16, 2008, 02:44:08 AM
Um updraft lets you climb alot faster. Downdraft makes you go faster when diving.
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Post by: Trukk on March 16, 2008, 06:30:12 AM
"Um updraft lets you climb alot faster. Downdraft makes you go faster when diving."

I didn't know you could create up/down drafts in AH?!  By the way a downdraft while diving is not going to make it any easier to break the sound barrier since (like was already mention) it's based on your air speed.  All a down draft is going to do is make you run out of altitude quicker.
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Post by: Larry on March 16, 2008, 09:30:01 AM
The max speed wind can be set to is 127mph. A 127mph downdraft will make you lose alt alot faster but it will also give you airspeed since the wind is pushing you down in your dive.
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Post by: DEAR98 on March 16, 2008, 09:38:14 AM
Ive done it a in SpitMk1 easy as crap
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Post by: RTR on March 16, 2008, 10:16:33 AM
Ive done it a in SpitMk1 easy as crap

*cough...bs...cough
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Post by: REP0MAN on March 16, 2008, 10:34:06 AM
I didn't know you could create up/down drafts in AH?!

Yes but it will not be variable. It will be a sustained wind.

:aok
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Post by: Spikes on March 16, 2008, 11:24:16 AM
Ive done it a in SpitMk1 easy as crap

Nice BSing.
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Post by: FiLtH on March 16, 2008, 11:31:38 AM
Anyone else try to close out the pic by clicking the close button in his pic?
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Post by: colmbo on March 16, 2008, 11:43:16 AM
The max speed wind can be set to is 127mph. A 127mph downdraft will make you lose alt alot faster but it will also give you airspeed since the wind is pushing you down in your dive.

Hmmm.  Doesn't work that way in the real world.
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Post by: Larry on March 16, 2008, 11:53:21 AM
pssst.........game.........
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Post by: smokey23 on March 16, 2008, 12:17:29 PM
I think i did that in my P-51   :rofl diveing in on a FH one night, couldnt really tell i was in a red out and didnt have any tail or wings looked like a V2 screamin in on london. :huh  :rock
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Post by: Yossarian on March 16, 2008, 01:15:11 PM
Well, I expected that I wasn't the first, but Mach 2!!??  :O :O Really!

I was under the impression that 163s weren't capable of supersonic flight...don't know why though.

Also, whenever I get very high, (at least by my standards), e.g. 60K in a 163, maybe 48K in a jug, I find that my plane seems to flop all over the place.  I think this is due to the thin air, but is there anyway to lessen the effects of this?

Anyway, I'll keep trying
<S>

Yossarian

P.S. do planes run out of fuel very quickly when at higher altitudes?
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Post by: pengu146 on March 16, 2008, 01:44:53 PM
Yossarian they will sometimes i notice.
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Post by: Trukk on March 16, 2008, 02:44:40 PM
The max speed wind can be set to is 127mph. A 127mph downdraft will make you lose alt alot faster but it will also give you airspeed since the wind is pushing you down in your dive.
Pssst, you're missing the point.  You will be approaching the ground 127mph quicker, but your airspeed won't be any higher (hint, the air is going 127mph in the same direction as you).
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Post by: Overlag on March 16, 2008, 02:53:16 PM
done 1.2 in a 262 before... i broke my wing tips off so i had less drag.

however since airflow code updates i hit a brick wall in the 262 now, it just wont go to 1.00 anymore it seems?
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Post by: Yossarian on March 16, 2008, 05:04:36 PM
I'll try that offline now, assuming I don't get any 'parental ack' for it...
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Post by: Pannono on March 16, 2008, 06:03:20 PM
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg3/Pannono/ahss103.jpg)
got dumped and i managed to take this pic when i lost connection
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Post by: Allen Rune on March 16, 2008, 08:11:01 PM
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1426/extreammachfr0.png)

Managed to snap this just as I hit the deck, it was a P51D... and yes I used every posible setting to help :noid
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Post by: ShrkBite on March 16, 2008, 08:31:59 PM
 :aok
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Post by: Solar10 on March 17, 2008, 01:21:10 PM
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1426/extreammachfr0.png)

Managed to snap this just as I hit the deck, it was a P51D... and yes I used every posible setting to help :noid

It looks like you have broken the laws of physics or perhaps it's some quantum physics stuff going on.  One thing for sure, you are producing over 1.3 million gallons of gas every hour.  You are a rich man, a very rich man!   :rock
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Post by: Latrobe on March 17, 2008, 01:42:27 PM
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1426/extreammachfr0.png)

Managed to snap this just as I hit the deck, it was a P51D... and yes I used every posible setting to help :noid
:rofl Look at how much the weight
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Post by: Corrs on March 17, 2008, 03:26:10 PM
I made a PT boat fly before. Got it up to about 20K.
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Post by: Krusty on March 17, 2008, 03:51:00 PM
Rule #8
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Post by: moot on March 17, 2008, 04:37:08 PM
Got me curious, the only way I imagine you'd get whacked out values like that is after crashing thru the ground, and getting one of those weird post-crash accelerations through the void.  I just tested it and the values stay "normal".  So Allen Rune might have to give some explanations..
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Post by: Bronk on March 17, 2008, 04:42:02 PM
Snip

Krusty I'd edit this post if I were you. Not trying to start anything, just... well .... you know how HTC responds to accusations like this.
Title: Re: Broke the sound barrier :D :D
Post by: Yossarian on March 17, 2008, 05:54:47 PM
well, I've never managed to go through the ground before (although I must admit that it sounds fun  :)), but I tried going supersonic in an Ar-234, 163, 262, RV-8, Typhoon, Tempest, and Spitfire XIV this morning, with standard settings, but no luck.

I had to go to school though, so I only really went up to 30k (and no I didn't get in on time... :o)

<S>

Yossarian
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Post by: Wes14 on March 17, 2008, 08:29:57 PM
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1426/extreammachfr0.png)

Managed to snap this just as I hit the deck, it was a P51D... and yes I used every posible setting to help :noid

So having Rosie O' Donald in the plane is a setting?  :confused:
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Post by: mussie on March 17, 2008, 09:47:55 PM
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1426/extreammachfr0.png)

Managed to snap this just as I hit the deck, it was a P51D... and yes I used every posible setting to help :noid

Man that deserves a medel LOL
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Post by: weazely on March 17, 2008, 10:11:35 PM
Yup all this talk about top speed make me remember the time I went mach 9.....fun times. :noid
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Post by: MORAY37 on March 18, 2008, 01:08:20 AM
Well, I expected that I wasn't the first, but Mach 2!!??  :O :O Really!

I was under the impression that 163s weren't capable of supersonic flight...don't know why though.

Also, whenever I get very high, (at least by my standards), e.g. 60K in a 163, maybe 48K in a jug, I find that my plane seems to flop all over the place.  I think this is due to the thin air, but is there anyway to lessen the effects of this?

Anyway, I'll keep trying
<S>

Yossarian



P.S. do planes run out of fuel very quickly when at higher altitudes?

163 was not able, in Real life, to pass through the mack barrier without losing control over the wings.  Shock barrier built up and would tear the control surfaces off.  As well, that mach number cannot be correct, at 20K.  Mach number is calculated with temperature and humidity, neither of which are modelled, to my knowledge, in AH. 
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Post by: Allen Rune on March 18, 2008, 01:55:12 PM
Explination: settings used: A3 air spawn, full down draft wind, fuel burn rate mult set to exactly 10000000000.0 (this screwed it up pretty bad and ended up ADDING fuel :D)

loadout: full fuel with DTs

How I did it:

First thing I did was raise gear, then went full throt, then opend e6b, watched until I got to mach .81,
then droped both tanks and turned on wep at the same time, because of the wieght this created a slingshot effect, I was shot strait up in an insain climb (after I lost quite a lot of metal) to well over 100k before I went plumenting down well past the sound barier. You have to get the timing of droping the tanks just right otherwise you just crash in midair.

I also have a film of me doing it but not from that particular pic.