A beginner's guide to the planes

[David603]

Originally Posted by Panzergranate

Nice of you to point out that the Bf-109 K is the fastest prop job in the game as players may tend to be confused by the historical fact that the P-51 was the fastest at 465 MPH (WEP level flight). Unfortunately, many fighters in this game have been "neutered" when it come to their performance envelopes.

You sure of this? My information says the P51D had a top speed of 438mph with WEP at 24,500ft, which is a lot more than I can get out of a P51D ingame, only gives 355mph at this altitude, but is below the K4's top speed of 452mph at 22,000ft.

The only Mustang varient faster than this was the P51H(487mph at 25,000ft), but this was only just coming into service when the war ended in Japan, and as far as I know no plane of this mark saw combat.