Author Topic: Paddle blades (Read 1123 times)

Bosco123 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2007, 06:38:25 PM »

Yea I have seen them on the N but they are only for show they realy dont help much

Bronk · « **Reply #16 on:** August 06, 2007, 06:40:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Bosco123
Yea I have seen them on the N but they are only for show they realy dont help much

Are you nuts? Get that thing to 30k+ and nothing will touch you.

Bronk

Bosco123 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 06, 2007, 06:54:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Bronk
Are you nuts? Get that thing to 30k+ and nothing will touch you.

Bronk

kinda stupid being 30K in the first place, hell I don't go above 20K in a 24 let alone a 47

Bronk · « **Reply #18 on:** August 06, 2007, 06:57:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Bosco123
kinda stupid being 30K in the first place, hell I don't go above 20K in a 24 let alone a 47

You do realize 30k is where the N performs best?
Bronk

Gryffin · « **Reply #19 on:** August 07, 2007, 10:17:34 AM »

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Originally posted by Bosco123
kinda stupid being 30K in the first place, hell I don't go above 20K in a 24 let alone a 47

You do realise that it was optimised for WWII combat conditions, not online computer game combat conditions, right?

Bosco123 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 08, 2007, 11:50:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Gryffin
You do realise that it was optimised for WWII combat conditions, not online computer game combat conditions, right?

ah and this is were we end this I do relize that WW2 wasn't low flying combat at all. thanks gryffin

PanzerIV · « **Reply #21 on:** August 08, 2007, 03:28:26 PM »

Ever since i saw the Thunderbolt episode on Dogfights ive been drinking Hawiawan punch til my face is covered in it and yelling, "I WANT PADDLE BLADES, Jugs had them on DOGFIGHTS!!!".
Carry on.

hitech · « **Reply #22 on:** August 08, 2007, 03:36:19 PM »

bozon: While you are correct about excess power, if you look at most planes the drag ,not do to weight change, at climb speed is a fairly minor change in most planes of the WWII era.

And typically you can rank most planes climb performance with nothing more than HP and weight.

If they do not rank that way , it typically has to do more with propellers than airframe.

Note all this is rule of thumb stuff, and not precise calculations.

HiTech

WaspR2800 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 08, 2007, 04:28:00 PM »

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Originally posted by NHawk
Be careful when making statements like this.

If a spit or hurricane already has a speed advantage, they will catch you before you are able to accellerate away.

If you are both at equal speeds the P-47 will run away from them. (Hurricane may keep up but won't catch the 47)

If you're below 15k, you're really rolling the dice on diving away.

If you dive away and the other plane holds altitude, follows you and waits for your e state to decrease you could be dead meat.

And don't think the P-47 can out dive everything. Right from the get-go the Mustang pulled away from the P-47 in dive trials.

Forgive me, I will try to be more specific. What I meant was... say you have a Hurricane holding behind you @ 800-1k distance strait and level and you nose down and try to dive away and somehow he manages to close the gap. I really have a tough time with that since from what I understand the Hurricane is signifigantly slower than the Jug. Some of the Jug characteristics seem a bit off to me but then again I go by recorded performance specs not experience.