VG.39 & Engine Performance - Grok Edition

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Laurelix

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VG.39
Empty Weight: ~2,210 kg
Loaded Weight: ~3000 kg
Wing Area: 14.0 m²
Engine: Hispano-Suiza 12Y-89ter
Take Off: 1160 CV
Nominal: 1088 CV at SL / 1200 CV at 3800m

Max Speed: (According to official data)
625km/h at 5750m

Rate of Climb: (According to most sources)
4:55 to 5000m

Armament:
6 × 7.5 mm MAC 1934 (5100 rounds total)

Maximum Safe Dive Limit: ~800km/h IAS

Source:
* William Green, War Planes of the Second World War, Fighters, Volume One, London, Macdonald & Co. Ltd., 1960, ISBN 0-356-01445-2.


Grok Calculations

Engine Power Curve
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Max Speed:
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Rate of Climb:
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Estimated Sustained Turn Time, no flaps:
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This is fantastic. I've always wondered what the VG39 with the Y-class engine would have made at WEP. Great aircraft and a shame it never flew in defense of France.
 

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