You are talking about the Finnish Brewster with the DC-3 engine?
What's the point of this comment? If you're doing that then whey so conveniently leave out the fact that Wright 1820's also powered the B-17, SBD, & FM-2 as well besides the C-47 just to name a few. Oh nevermind, I get it. It's a thinly veiled potshot at how crappy the Buffalo "should" be by associating it to a slow lumbering airplane.
I dont have any doubt that Hitech knows what he is doing but I doubt there is any way to quantify the vertical zoom of the Brewster in the game with the one from Finland.
So what you're really saying is that infact Hitech and Pyro don't really know what they are doing. Nice.
I very seriously doubt there was all that much special about the Brewster that Finland had in their defense than any of the other Brewsters from the same factory. You should bear in mind that the Finnish aircraft had only 900 h.p. compared to 1200 h.p. available to the model tested in the 'anecdotal' competition with a P-40.
You ask Stoney for facts yet you choose to ignore facts yourself. Wow what a strange world you live in.
FACT: Wright 1820-G5 1000 hp not 900.
FACT: F2A-2/B-339 was ~700-1000 lbs heavier - that's adding an additional whopping ~20% more weight to the B-239. You don't think this would mess with the performance any? The least that you could do is run a few simple calcs to get an inkling.
Please if you have hard written evidence of test aircraft from the period that indicates this particular model was superior to the others than share it with us all. I have been told that the model in the game was elevated to its current abilities through anecdotal evidence (actually no evidence at all except a verbal "no thats not quite right"). Well I for one think what we have in the game doesnt fit with reality but like I said... despite looking there doesnt seem to be any evidence either way... except anecdotal.
You actually think that HTC uses the aeromythnamics method of FM by relying on anecdotes for the B-239? That's what you get for listening to the clueless.
The "experts" in this case cant prove it either way but they will certainly circle the wagons to protect their own baseless positions.
The only thing I've seen that's been baseless around here is the weak to non-existent logic associated with the whines about the B-239.
EDIT: and for the record, I actually liked the anecdote you posted but couldn't let your other ranting & raving go without a response.
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