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The start of the roll in Hurricane was more sluggish than Bf109E-4. Also the acceleration was far from Bf109E-4. Finnish test reports say that the thick wing had huge drag compared to Brewster, Fiat G.50 or other planes. Finns liked the performance above 3km(10kft) where the plane was better. But at low altitude considered too slow and sluggish due high weight and not so strong engine(Merlin III).
Another interesting thing is from the acquisition of the Hurricanes for FiAF. The Brits themselves said that most of their Hurricanes in squadron service were at average 20mph slower than published test data. For comparison the 5min power setting gave 450km/h at SL so the average plane would do some 420-430km/h.
Climb was on a new nice and dandy plane some 12m/s at SL, ~11m/s at 1km, 10m/s at 2km etc. Just for comparison.
But as said..Devs will work on FM etc. so after this we can see how it will be.
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