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Originally posted by Hood
The I-01 is a different beasty. I've made a few changes since RA last saw it but it will be good. Putting a 1500hp engine in it makes it even better...
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1500hp? In which year will you introduce such engine and plane?
When posting some of my aircrafts stats I remember a discussion regarding the F-6D "Swollow" with a 1250PS engine. The plane will enter service in 1935 and the engine resembles the Merlin XII in a Spitfire II which - as we agreed - puts the Swollow at the very edge of the 5 years WesWorld seems ahead of time in plane and engine technology. So I hesitated to introduce her at all.
A 1500PS engine is more like a Merlin XLV or 45 in a Spitfire Mk. V (or a Bf109G with a DB605)... So I´m curious: What have I missed?
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So I´m curious: What have I missed?
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Interesting Drawing, is that a Fiat 55 Centaur fuselague and tail I see? Visibility is going to be very bad, reminds me of the Curtiss XP-37.
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
The sort of limit you propose would be in keeping with a Merlin-sized engine but it is possible to build larger engines that will give more power (but they are of increased weight and size).
If your engine is around the same size/rpm of the Merlin you can get up to a max of about 1450hp from 87-oct fuel (12lb boost + improved supercharger). Using BMEP as a figure (assuming Merlin dimensions) we get 14.8bar. If the Argentinean engine has Griffon dimensions and the same level of development, it will give 1570hp but weigh more and be larger.
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However, if the DB-603 is developed to the same degree as the DB-605D series, you end up with a seriously powerful engine
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The fasted piston engine airplane holding the FAI record is a heavily modified F8F Bearcat which reached 545.07mph or 876,55km/h
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I'd bet we break that FAI record in WW way before 1989
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Red Admiral" (Sep 14th 2007, 6:33pm)
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
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However, if the DB-603 is developed to the same degree as the DB-605D series, you end up with a seriously powerful engine
About 2400hp with the normal 2700rpm or 2670hp with 3000rpm (for DB603N experimental, this running speed would probably be far too high though.) if developed to the same degree as the DB605-DCM. The Merlin with 60% of the capacity of the DB603 reached 2640hp maximum (RM17SM in 1944, but was rated normally for about 2400hp, without water injection)
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I came up with just under 2500 hp, doing a straight extrapolation based on displacements.
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