[_RAAF_Tiger]

I had an idea that i think is awesome, i was thinking maybe someone should make a mod that gives planes the ability to reach anyspeed (but still accelerate normally and have break up speeds) I think this would be great for jets

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

+1

[Guest]

Wrong sim....try Freelancer, X-Wing vs TIE fighter, or such... 8)

[ROSOBORONEXPORTCORP]

Try P-47 :wink:

[Karaya]

I had an idea that i think is awesome, i was thinking maybe someone should make a mod that gives planes the ability to reach anyspeed (but still accelerate normally and have break up speeds) I think this would be great for jets

Doesnt make any sense. If planes are allowed to reach any speed how are they supposed to still have breakup speeds? After all the latter is the speed at which, due to design or structural limitations, the aircraft will begin to desintigrate.

[caldrail]

The speed of sound is a very real obstacle for aircraft of ww2 vintage, jets included, and back then it wasn't clearly understood how to get through it. The Bell X-1 for instance is not a sophisticated design at all - it just embodied what the americans thought was necessary to allow aeroplanes to fly that fast.

I don't know how the flight models work in IL2 - I'm going to assume that the speed of sound as such isn't modelled but the limits and behaviour of individual aircraft at top speed is, which kind of means a mod of this nature isn't required.

There is however one instance from 1952 of a late model Spitfire out of Hong Kong that might have broken the sound barrier in a dive, the pilot eventually pulling out with almost no height left. Officially, there's no record of that achievement - it cannot be proven - but the time taken to descend from his orignal altitude (very high, at the limits his spitfire could attain) meant that he must have flown faster than sound by a small margin.

[aviatorsneah]

i read another american in a p51 broke it a couple months before the X1 in 1947. it was recorded but the telemetry was deemed "unreliable" and the whole thing was thrown out anyways because the mustang had to be in a dive to achieve it.

[highlander_262]

Apparently there are quiet a few instances of pilots in late war prop aircraft breaking the sound barrier in a dive. None are proven as the pilots tended to be killed due to airframe failure or control reversal. Only what I've read though, just cos it's been written down doesn't make it true. :wink:

[godzyla]

The only aircraft to pass the sound wall during WW2 is the Me-262A-1a piloted by Hans-Guido Mutke on April 9th 1945 during a great dive.

[Guest]

not possible. The game engine limits us to just under the speed of sound.

[Loht773]

If done it should only work with Korean war Jets, However its still very difficult....

[pz1b]

I had an idea that i think is awesome, i was thinking maybe someone should make a mod that gives planes the ability to reach anyspeed (but still accelerate normally and have break up speeds) I think this would be great for jets

nice idea but ya gonna get lots of speedin tickets for this one!!

[Harnage]

You can break the sound barrier ingame.
All you have to do is turn off flutter effect, fly an Me-262 A1 starting at 10,000 meters, and be willing to fall to your death.

[RedChico]

Me 262, Ta 183 (if you forget about those tail problems) have the necessary profile to reach the speed of sound, but are they prepared to pass it? No.

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

Me-163 goes about 1500km/h @ sea level after small dive