Oh brother. We're talking about maximum dive speed of a Typhoon, as if the physics of this game were realistic. In case you don't understand, the physics of this game aren't real, and even the much ballyhooed torque effects aren't close to what they would do in real life. It's a game, it's not real, and unless we're going to go test these planes, as originally designed, and using properly installed modern instruments, we really aren't going to know what the actual capabilities are. In the FWIW category, not even the Bell X-1 had a properly working mach meter when it broke the sound barrier the first time.
"Yeager: We didn't—we had no idea anything was going to happen. There was some indication on the previous Friday's flight that we had a very large error in our Mach meter. Otherwise we were indicating about 9.3, or .94 Mach number which was 94 percent of the speed of sound. There's some indication when NACA reduced the data from our instrumentation in the airplane that we're going a lot faster than indicated. And there was some, a little bit of excitement that said, hell, we, it looks like we've, we've been up to about 99 percent of the speed of sound. And we still are in buffeting and the airplane is shaking quite a bit. You know, they weren't sure, because you, you're in an area where very little is known. They had no wind tunnel data, nothing, and everything was trial and error. And there was some indication that we had been going faster than we had thought. But we had no idea what was going to happen on the next flight. And when we got the airplane up to oh, about 96 percent of the speed of sound indicated, that was almost Mach 1. And when we went a little faster the Mach meter went off the scale. And ah, when it did all the buffeting smoothed out, because of the supersonic flow of the whole airplane. And even I knew we had gotten above the speed of sound. And I let it accelerate on out to about 1.06 or 1.07, seven percent above the speed of sound, and the airplane flew quite well. And I got some elevator effectiveness back, but not very much."
( Copied from
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/barrier/men.html )
Observation: The X-1 had proven inaccurate instrumentation, even though it was the most advanced plane of the time.
Conclusion: Published performance data for WWII aircraft, even from the manufacturer, isn't necessarily correct.
If HTC ever makes a perfect physics engine, then great. If they ever do, then by definition, the performance of the aircraft will end up exactly where they should be, as long as the planes physical data is accurate. If that ever happens, there will be others who complain about it not matching published data, so the argument will never end. Until then, it's just a game. A fun game, granted, but still a game.
