Man I don't know if this inspires me to build...or quit!
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I have often wondered about this, too. I assume the real power output of Japanese series production engines was somewhat lower. This may be true for most Western engines as well but in Japan it seems it was worse than elsewhere (steel?). Then it also would be interesting what effects fuel quality and superchargers had.
And to understand your post correctly, WEP is full power en MP is a lower throttle setting with the extra throttle setting still available? This would mean then that Japanese planes could go faster then tested.
Precisely.
I often wondered how the ki-61 would have performed with a DB605 instead of the HA140. Although they are closely related I suspect (no more then that) that it would have performed better. It seems to me that the Japanese lost a lot of time (and quality) by not building the engine in licence by copying it. Any thoughts?
Would've been interesting. Also could it take the DB 603? Now that would've been a late-war fighter to look out for.I often wondered how the ki-61 would have performed with a DB605 instead of the HA140. Although they are closely related I suspect (no more then that) that it would have performed better. It seems to me that the Japanese lost a lot of time (and quality) by not building the engine in licence by copying it. Any thoughts?