Simviation Forum - Super Sonic

Nov 20^th, 2003 at 6:44pm

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Well, not quite... Wink

48,500ft. Tempest reclaims the Spitfire Altitude Crown Grin

648kts. Not quite Super Sonic.

And a I pulled out of the dive with hight to spare. Still over 600kts, no fake shots here. Wink

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Reply #1 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 8:31pm

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thats one lovely spit roger, where did u get it?

nice shots!! and im wondering, how come ur wngs didnt come off?

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Reply #2 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 10:00pm

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I gave it my shot.......best I could do over the Straits of Gibraltar was on my second run....recovery is a bit busy, so I missed the shot, but it was at 200' and just barely....do these count or were we challenged to use only a Spit ?

Climbing to 36,000 for the first run.......

First run........706.4 kts

Second run........741.1 kts

« Last Edit: Nov 21^st, 2003 at 1:54pm by Rifleman »

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Reply #3 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 2:01am

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I DON'T believe it Angry

I held that crown for a mere 12 hours or so.... Right I'm off to plot my revenge Grin

Nice flying by the way Roger Wink

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Reply #4 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 2:41am

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Ha! Got you beat! and we still don't know if you survived or not, Ken!

I did survive, and it came from 48,000 feet!

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Reply #5 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 4:16am

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thats one lovely spit roger, where did u get it?

nice shots!! and im wondering, how come ur wngs didnt come off?

This is quite an old Spit Space pal. It's an FS2000 model and I think it's here at SimV. One of the first I ever downloaded.

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Ha! Got you beat! and we still don't know if you survived or not, Ken!

I did survive, and it came from 48,000 feet!

Nice flying Pip, but what plane is that, Spit, Sea Fury or Mustang?

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Reply #6 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 6:54am

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Nice shots and spit, it looks like FS2000

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Reply #7 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 5:29pm

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Nice shots Rifleman, I like the

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paint scheme. Where can I get it?

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Reply #8 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 5:39pm

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I saw it over at NoNodes.com... Roll Eyes

Cool thing, I downloaded the textures for the two seater and accidently applied them to this one. Except for a small black area where the second cockpit should be, it fit like a glove...

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Reply #9 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 6:03pm

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I still have the highest altitude...By one little foot. Shocked

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Reply #10 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 9:44pm

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Hey Pippin How come you are the only pilot who received an

overspeed

warning. ??? Oh well, I tried but at 47495 in a Tempest, I fell off on right wing and lost it. I was too busy to notice airspeed, had overspeed warning, and control problems that didn't stop, untill I did, very very abruptly. Roll Eyes

You guys are good.

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Reply #11 - Nov 22^nd, 2003 at 8:12am

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Hey Pippin How come you are the only pilot who received an

overspeed

warning. ??? Oh well, I tried but at 47495 in a Tempest, I fell off on right wing and lost it. I was too busy to notice airspeed, had overspeed warning, and control problems that didn't stop, untill I did, very very abruptly. Roll Eyes

You guys are good.

Fido
P.S. are you all flying in FS2K2/4 or in CFS2/3, just wondered if you were able to used war emergency.

Fido pal, check out the post Super Sonic Tempest Wink

I've been using 2K2 and CFS2 but WEP only makes a small difference and hardly any at all at very high altitude. I've tried most of these planes in both sims and they behave just the same, so no sim advantage with CFS2 or 2K2.
To get really high, I'm flying hands off at max throttle and using only trim control to adjust the climb. It took over an hour to get the Spit 24 to 48K but only about 45 mins to get a Tempest II to 58K. The Spit was stable all the way down, but the Tempest gave me a few problems.

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Reply #12 - Nov 22^nd, 2003 at 8:51am

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The Spit was stable all the way down, but the Tempest gave me a few problems

That's easy for you to say, True both of my attempts were fairly uneventful on the way up, that is untill the burble and suddend loss of lift. As for on the way down, control was not a problen with the Tempest, I just didn't have any. The Spit handled like a true lady, flying straight and true, all the way into the ground. Roll Eyes

Like I said you have the touch. I would upload a pic of my Tempest, but the textures seem muddy, ??? she does handle like a dream at a reasonable altitude. I was blown away when I saw the pilots arms raise up, and push open the canopy after first flight. Shocked

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