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Title: performance
Post by: strab on October 23, 2001, 12:52:00 PM
Need to find strengths and weaknesses of each plane.  Can't find anythg on the planes.null (http://null)
Title: performance
Post by: Karnak on October 23, 2001, 01:35:00 PM
That's a pretty big request.

Here's some:

N1K2
Pros:
Turns well, accelerates quickly, heavy firepower, great ammo load, climbs well, dives well, good visibility
Cons:
Slow, mediocre roll rate, poor high speed roll rate, extremely poor perk point gatherer

A6M5b
Pros:
Turns great, good visibility
Cons:
Slow, extremely poor high speed handling, fragile, light ammo load

Hurricane MkIIc
Pros:
Turns great, heavy firepower, tough
Cons:
Slow, poor visibility, poor climbing ability, poor acceleration, very light ammo load

Hurricane MkIId
Pros:
Turns well, tough, tank killing guns
Cons:
Slow, poor visibility, poor climbing ability, poor acceleration, extremely light ammo load, guns only good against vehicles

Lancaster MkIII
Pros:
Very heavy bomb load, great fuel range, tough
Cons:
Weak defensive guns, belly is not defended, extremely poor climbing ability

Mosquito MkVI
Pros:
Heavy firepower, centerline mounted guns, good ammo load, dives well, good ordinance options
Cons:
Big target, fragile, poor climbing ability, nasty stall characteristics

Spitfire MkVb/Seafire MkIIc
Pros:
Turns great, rolls well at low speeds
Cons:
Slow, light ammo load, poor climbing ability

Spitfire MkIX
Pros:
Turns great, accelerates well, climbs well, rolls well at low speeds, good high altitude performance
Cons:
Slow, light ammo load, very poor perk point gatherer

Tempest MkV
Pros:
Very fast at low altitude, heavy firepower, climbs well, dives great
Cons:
Costs 70 perk points

Typhoon MkIb
Pros:
Fast at low altitude, heavy firepower, dives well, good ordinance options
Cons:
Extremely poor roll rate, nasty stall characteristics, poor turning ability


I'll let others do the rest of the aircraft.