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Originally Posted by JtD
You'll need to engage low gear (2nd stage in game) in order to get any benefit from water injection. Both with and without water injection you're operating above full throttle altitude, where the benefit of water injection is nearly zero.
I would like to know what your "generally accepted" speed performance figures for the Wildcats are. I can tell you right now that they match or exceed the figures given in Americas 100000 as well as the figures quoted on ww2aircraftperformance.com.
F6F and F4U performance is modelled for clean aircraft.
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The 'HUD' message telling you that water injection is engaged goes up even so. Who knew that the game would
lie to me like that?
As mentioned in an earlier post, ww2aircraftperformance.com shows a test for the FM-2 with a level speed at 5000 ft of 312 mph true (502 kph); an F4F test for 4600 ft shows a true airspeed of 283 mph (455 kph).
Attached is a blowup of the chart from
America's Hundred-Thousand for the Wildcats' various models' Speed and Climb performance, scanned from the book and then printed on graph paper in the forlorn hope that it would be made a bit clearer (Murphy made his usual appearance, alas). The FM-2's speed graph line is highlighted in pink, the F4F-4 is in blue and the F4F-3 is in green. As you can see, the FM-2's line at 5000 ft is clearly east of the 300 mph line, while the F4F-3/-4's lines are well to the west of it, around 285 mph.
I used the same references you claim you used.
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