I think Oleg is just having a little joke at the expense of the nit pickers.
No WW2 aircraft that I have ever seen fly, and I've seen a lot of them, ever had visible exhaust flames while in flight in daylight.
Not one, ever.
Oleg is an engineer and pilot, and he knows this as well.
Or, this is just an NKVD psy-ops mission to keep the competition distracted.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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