Dive limits

• Apr 2, 2014

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tomo pauk said:

Dive tests found at Williams' site:
Fw-190 (early model)
Bf-109 (9.3 MB pdf, in German, but numbers should be self-explaining)

('Vw' = Wirkliche Geschwindlikheit = TAS; 'Va' should be IAS ; 'Machzahl = Mach number)

Many thanks, Mike al

added: dive limits for the Bf-109F - table - should have bearing on problems with wings of the Bf-109F

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Here's additional material on Me 109 dive:


From Bf 109 G-2, G-4, G-6 Bedienungsvorschrift, page 26


P-51

Compressibility Dive Tests on P-51D



Spitfire

 

• Apr 3, 2014

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De H Vampire F Mk I operating limits dive speeds; what was Mod 148?:





Douglas A-26:






Grumman F7F:

 

• Apr 3, 2014

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Great job, people

 

• Apr 3, 2014

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tomo pauk said:

Speed limits for the Mosquito FB.VI:

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Those are the post-war limits, 25 mph lower than the wartime equivalent. Will see if I can find my Aussie docco from December '44. I keep trawling around looking for a WWII pilot's notes, never can find any for the VI.

 

• Apr 5, 2014

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What the dive limitations for the 190?

 

• Apr 9, 2014

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Found the Aussie doccos I was looking for re: wartime Mossie FB.VI dive speed limits.

Date on the first page, speeds (in IAS) on second two.

Edit - date is on the second of the three attachments, sorry.

 

• Apr 12, 2014

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mhuxt said:

Those are the post-war limits, 25 mph lower than the wartime equivalent. Will see if I can find my Aussie docco from December '44. I keep trawling around looking for a WWII pilot's notes, never can find any for the VI.

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Great work everyone. But this one is great, been chasing the mach limit of the Mossie for some time now. Not bad at all. Probably the best of any WW2 twin.

 

• Apr 12, 2014

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OldSkeptic said:

Great work everyone. But this one is great, been chasing the mach limit of the Mossie for some time now. Not bad at all. Probably the best of any WW2 twin.

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I think I also have another docco which gives the results for the Mossie of dive tests, expressed in mach number. This is different from the limits imposed in the pilot's notes, I suppose for obvious reasons.

From memory, the maximum test results were around 0.7 mach, or somewhere just north of that.

Again, it's "somewhere on my hard drive", will see if I can find it.

 

• Apr 20, 2014

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Found the mach number stuff.



I believe the note at the end about diving limits being 350kts is incorrect, post-war, as above, it seems to have been 370.

 

• Apr 20, 2014

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Tempest V

 

• Apr 20, 2014

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Sea Hornet

 

• Apr 20, 2014

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Corsair I-IV

 

• Apr 20, 2014

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thedab said:

What the dive limitations for the 190?

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• Apr 20, 2014

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Thanks Mike!!!!

 

• Apr 20, 2014

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Cool thanks

 

• Apr 20, 2014

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F-82E dive/flight limits:






Westland Lysander:

 

• May 17, 2014

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Dive limits for the P-63A:

 

• May 19, 2014

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Limits for the F4U:

 

• May 19, 2014

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Great thread on fighter plane dive limits. How about the big bombers?
Anyone got the limits for the B-24, B-17?

 

• Aug 17, 2014

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any one knows,what the dive limit is for the FW190D-9