Acceleration comparisons

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by majorfailure

Interesting. Slap some water-injection engine in that F6F, and its acceleration performance gets close to Fw190s/P-38s.
Maybe the F6F is not that total dog it seemed before, but the 'sair just shines too bright in that department. Seems though that with the F6F-5 you can easily leave Zeros+Ki-61 wheezing and puffing behind you.

The interesting bit about all of this was the initial discussion was centered on the notion that the Corsair was a very slow accelerating aircraft... but the charts show that it's actually quite impressive.