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[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Yeah, gotta admit, that bit made me scratch my head a second.

If the 110 has more drag on it than a Spitfire, shouldn't it's dive acceleration be slower? All things being equal in drag, shouldn't their dive acceleration be equal?

Depends on the mass behind it, really, and the 110 is not a light bird. A piano will undoubtly fall faster then a feather, despite the feather having much better drag characteristics then a piano.

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

Depends on the mass behind it, really, and the 110 is not a light bird. A piano will undoubtly fall faster then a feather, despite the feather having much better drag characteristics then a piano.

Well, it's really more of an air resistance to weight ratio thingy apparently (looked it up).

So if the greater bulk of the 110 compared to it's surface area resistance (drag? dunno) is a larger divide than that of the Spitfire, then it'll go faster in a dive, I guess.

Not my area I suppose. Air physics and such is very interesting stuff.

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Well, it's really more of an air resistance to weight ratio thingy apparently (looked it up).

So if the greater bulk of the 110 compared to it's surface area resistance (drag? dunno) is a larger divide than that of the Spitfire, then it'll go faster in a dive, I guess.

Not my area I suppose. Air physics and such is very interesting stuff.

Not an expert myself, but yes, that is the direction it goes in.

That said, the Spitfire is not the wonderbird you make the impression of thinking it is, Fear Factor and the likes. I feel a bit of P51 syndrome going on here by making a few selective Luftwaffe pilots comments bout the Spit to be more then there is to it. But then again I belong to those 109/110 flyers who see no problem in Red utilizing the SpitII on servers.