speaking of future race planes....

[jet1]

http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/englan ... wyvern.jpg

boy I wish one of these were out there...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rlwind.jpg

...or this

[famvburg]

I don't think either of those would make much of a race plane.

http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/west_wyvern.jpg

boy I wish one of these were out there...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rlwind.jpg

...or this

[Warbird Kid]

How about a Flug Werk 190?

Or a Spit in general?

[jet1]

I don't think either of those would make much of a race plane.

http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/west_wyvern.jpg

boy I wish one of these were out there...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rlwind.jpg

...or this

its about getting to fly a fighter the way they were meant to be flown...

[jet1]

How about a Flug Werk 190?

Or a Spit in general?

its all about seeing and hearing a WWII fighter being pushed a bit...(not to the breaking point of course)

[John Dupre]

How about a Flug Werk 190?

Or a Spit in general?

I wonder what a FW 190 with an aerodynamic clean up and an R3350 would be like? As for a Spit it would be fun but they were never very fast. They made one attempt at a speed record and really couldn't pull it off even with revised canopy and gap filling and sealing.

[51fixer]

How about a Flug Werk 190?

Or a Spit in general?

I wonder what a FW 190 with an aerodynamic clean up and an R3350 would be like? As for a Spit it would be fun but they were never very fast. They made one attempt at a speed record and really couldn't pull it off even with revised canopy and gap filling and sealing.

Jim says the Spit Mk 18 cruises about the same speed as the P-51 but uses 20 gal an hour more.
Rich

[John Dupre]

That is probably true the problem comes in getting from cruise speed to maximum possible. The Mustang is just a faster design than the Spitfire, probably having to do with the airfoil sections used.