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Reply #75 - Oct 1st, 2003 at 8:22am

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I think we have the makings of a good hour or so of conversation about the P51B and D models...............lol  Grin Wink (Noooooooo.........shut up Steve!  Wink Wink)

I have a version of the CFS2 P51B. It is a RCAF version. I don't have my Sim here at work.

I have a 1% P51B which is a British version.
In both, the flight config is completely different from it's B counterpart. I find the B a much nicer plane to fly. It's not as 'twitchy' or I call it 'sensitive' or 'touchy' on the stick, like the D model and it certainly doesn't have the bleed-off in a tight turn. It actually holds speed well untill you turn quite sharply, and even then it's only the sort of drop you would normally expect.

I don't know where the normal CFS2 RCAF one came from (try a search with P51 RCAF) but the 1%, like all mine, is from avhistory. It's a really good plane. I think you would find it a very pleasant plane to fly if you like the Spit.
The best I can compare it to is: the manoeuvrability and power (more!) of the Spit, but a turn 'approaching' that of the Hurricane. It also has the 'smooth action' of the Hurricane too. (I think the Hurri is 'smoother to fly' anyway - I always thought it was probably a weight thing.  Grin Wink
 

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Reply #76 - Oct 1st, 2003 at 9:03am

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Brensec. You obviously have more faith in the accuracy of the M$ flight model than me.  Roll Eyes
Regarding rate of roll I can only go back to the official report on the Mk XIV vs Mustang III (P-51B/C). Bear in mind that the Spitfire Mk XIV is basically a MK V with a Griffon engine. According to Alex Henshaw, chief test pilot at the Castle Bromwich shadow factory http://www.angelfire.com/sd2/spitfirefactory/, the Mk V was the most aerobatic of all Spitfires.

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TACTICAL COMPARISON WITH MUSTANG III

Maximum Speed
32. The maximum speed are practically identical.

Maximum Climb
33. The Spitfire XIV is very much better.

Dive
34. As for the Spitfire IX. The Mustang pulls away, but less markedly.

Turning Circle
35. The Spitfire XIV is better.

Rate of Roll
36. The advantage tends to be with the Spitfire XIV.
 

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Reply #77 - Oct 1st, 2003 at 10:30am

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  I don't have the figures in front of me, but wasn't the Spitfire XIV lighter than the P-51B?  Also didn't the Spitfire XIV have a greater wing area that the P-51B?  If so, wouldn't that account for the facts in Hagar's last post?
 
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Reply #78 - Oct 1st, 2003 at 6:22pm

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 I don't have the figures in front of me, but wasn't the Spitfire XIV lighter than the P-51B?  Also didn't the Spitfire XIV have a greater wing area that the P-51B?  If so, wouldn't that account for the facts in Hagar's last post?

This did surprise me a bit. The P-51 B/C comes in almost 1000lbs heavier than the Spit MkXIV.
Empty weight for the Mustang is 7,450lbs and the Spit MkXIV is 6,600lbs.
The Mustang had a semi laminar flow wing and was less in wing area than the Spit, but I can't call up the figues just now.
 

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Reply #79 - Oct 3rd, 2003 at 1:22am

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You're right Hagar, the flight models in the CFS (and FS) planes are simply an interpretation of a particular designer's ideas of how that plane would (or would have) performed.
I suppose, if the same person designed ALL the planes, there might be a little bit of sense to be made from it all, but, as you contuinlually remind us Wink, there really can't be when those that design these planes have probbaly never flown them.

M$ do claim that the models were based on 'advice' from the likes of Foss and Sakai, but did they ever fly a Spit, or a P51B? In one case, Sakai, I'm sure he didn't. In the second, Foss, I doubt he did (being Navy).  Grin

So all we have to compare are the Sim models. None of us will ever get to compare both these, or any other warbirds. If any of us get to fly one, let alone compare two or more, we will be blessed beyond anyones dreams.  Shocked Shocked 8) 8)

So, yes, you're right, the Sim models aren't really a good representation. Even the 1% planes, which claim to be 'accurate representations' are, at best, simlilar in some areas.  Grin Wink

I suppose I do get to making the assumption that the models are a reasonable representation, because all the Spit models and all the Mustang models would appear to behave much the same. But then, I suppose the same 'basic' config is used over and over.  Grin Cheesy
 

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