12.07.2008, 22:23
I saw somewhere on this site ( can't find it now ) where someone was complaining about the top speeds being too slow for the Curtiss Hawks. This person also said the Moranes were too slow but I did not test those.
Being concerned I decided to check the Hawks out. Went to the FMB and put them both through the speed tests at sea level and at best TAS altitudes on the Kuban map. Both are a couple of knots slow on their rated top speeds at those two best altitudes. A couple knots too slow is about what you want because most production planes never reach the rated top speed that the test planes do.
Just so everybody knows, if you test top speeds, do it on the Kuban map, this map is at standard temperature and it's the map Oleg himself used to take planes through their speed tests.
Being concerned I decided to check the Hawks out. Went to the FMB and put them both through the speed tests at sea level and at best TAS altitudes on the Kuban map. Both are a couple of knots slow on their rated top speeds at those two best altitudes. A couple knots too slow is about what you want because most production planes never reach the rated top speed that the test planes do.
Just so everybody knows, if you test top speeds, do it on the Kuban map, this map is at standard temperature and it's the map Oleg himself used to take planes through their speed tests.