24.03.2009, 10:58
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.
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.