TU2 enters compression around 505 TAS and breaks at 510 TAS,ailerons seem to depart first. Rudder isn't very effective,it's ok but I thought it would have more authority.
It also has a viscious stall,much like the 110C but it is easy to recover from.
At those speeds half the fighters in the set will not be able to run it down and others just barely, not to mention that the rear gunners are fully functional to shoot at fighters closing at 505+1 mph. It can probably maintain this speed in a shallow dive of 3000 fpm? so starting from 15-16 kft it has 5 minutes of immunity from a chasing fighter. I suppose it also keeps the formation at those speeds?
HTC seems to be very generous in the speed and G limitation for the bombers. I'd love to know if real B17s, B26s and Lancasters could dive at 500 mph and pull 6G into a blackout. Also I want to know what the crew inside were screaming.
I tried it. If you ditch the formation it is a decent fighter as long as the speeds are not above 300 mph, so as a single plane its best defense it to fight the fighters if it cannot dive away from them - at least long enough to get help from friendlies. If formations are excluded, it is the best non-perked bomber in the game. Period.
The stall is typical to all the twins in the game. P-38 has it a little less vicious due to the zero torque. I think this has to do with the fact that for twins the ratio of wingspan to length is much larger than in single fighters and this makes them less stable when departing controlled flight. Also, the placing of the engines far from the center of gravity increase their roll and yaw inertia significantly - once you get them tumbling and spinning it is harder to stop.
