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I understand better what you meant now. This "overall pilot skill" issue is why I don't give much credence to kill ratios to determine aircraft performance... Interestingly enough, in Western Europe, kill ratios by the 8th Air Force in 1944 were pretty lopsided, despite the fact that the...

Between the Spitfire and the FW-190 there is a 50% difference in wing loading... And yet not one account of the Spitfire out-turning the FW-190A, in sustained and clearly slow speed turns, has surfaced so far in my years of research... Even at high speeds, there are only a small handfull of...

According to the 1989 test by the SETP, the Corner Speed in horizontal turns, at 6G, is always very high on these WWII types, and around 320 mph for the P-51 at METO, or near whatever the top speed is at a given altitude... That is for horizontal turns however, and note that, I am told from one...

I know in the Ki-100 case they simply removed ballast from the tail, and that restaured the balance point perfectly. I read an account of the project manager. Most of these WWII fighters had something like 50lbs of ballast in the tail, sometimes in the form of a thick aluminium armor plate...

Don't forget these are all single-engined WWII fighters of similar configuration. I don't know if the engine power egg could be called a "nacelle" on those... To my mind it is the extreme nose location of the thrust that introduces an unknown effect under airflow assymmetry. Don't forget...

I don"t know how the keel area would affect the turn over several 360s. What I did observe from pilot accounts is that the advantage of the shorter nose seems strongest in indefinitely sustained low speed turns of around 3 Gs, while it seems to disappear in abrupt high speed short-lived turns of...

Thanks! Can you give me a link to the NACA/LARC research database? I am not a student, but a simulation board game designer. My interest is to explore my own theory that nose length on nose-driven types may affect handling and wing lift through the sustained assymmetry of incoming airflow...

Hello everyone, I would like to know if anyone knows of any in-flight wing bending measurements made of any kind of nose-driven single engine propeler aircraft type, preferrably of low-wing configuration and high power, and most importantly carried out during a series of sustained horizontal...