Level flight speed

[Saxman]

34 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

You maybe are confusing with the F4U-4 specs, the F4U-1 only did 378 mph at 20,000ft.

Source: https://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/f4u/f4u.html

 

The F4U-1 without ADI had a top speed of just at 400mph TAS at critical altitude. With the addition of ADI the later F4U-1As and retrofit earlier models reached about 425mph at the upper end. The F4U-1D and C lost about 5-10mph because of increased drag from the knuckle pylons.

Edited 6 hours ago by Saxman

[AJaromir]

According to my previous test (before patch 2.9.19.13478 which added WEP switch) I had 396 mph TAS at 20k . I will make new one.

Edited 4 hours ago by AJaromir

[-Rudel-]

The Mk.IV test dated December 1944, is probably the best document to use as it's the closest to a F4U-1D test that can be found.

https://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/f4u/kd227.pdf

[AJaromir]

32 minutes ago, -Rudel- said:

The Mk.IV test dated December 1944, is probably the best document to use as it's the closest to a F4U-1D test that can be found.

https://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/f4u/kd227.pdf

Nice. Seems like I am very close to this. I am looking forward to make the new one.

[Saxman]

2 hours ago, -Rudel- said:

The Mk.IV test dated December 1944, is probably the best document to use as it's the closest to a F4U-1D test that can be found.

https://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/f4u/kd227.pdf

Which is odd because there's other performance tests of F4U-1 subvariants on the same site that show speeds approaching 420mph.