Damnit. I've been waiting all day to put this joke up.The answer will of course depend on if both aircraft took off from a treadmill.
Damnit. I've been waiting all day to put this joke up.
I had the same problems.I "thought it up" this morning but didn't have time or bandwidth all day. Seriously, this could have been yours.
Or a circular runway.The answer will of course depend on if both aircraft took off from a treadmill.
Yeah, they're in the NATOPS; I meant of the FOUO or "it's proprietary" variety.Blue E/M diagrams are unclass.
I had the same problems.
Amazing what one can find in Google Images.Yeah, they're in the NATOPS; I meant of the FOUO or "it's proprietary" variety.
If it keeps even one solo from going off the runway in a 9 knot crosswind...I hate you. I'm pretty sure @Jim123 hates you too. Godspeed.
Sweet. Another NAVAIR failure. Standby for an email from my O-<whatever makes you feel threatened>.
Good nerdery. P-51 has higher speed and ceiling per Wikipedia. I assume that the P-51 performance specs are at least for an aircraft with 6x.50 installed. Unsure if it's for a full load of ammo (doubtful). T-6 specs are for an aircraft without any weaponry. Adding any will result in a performance decrease regardless of how the weapons are installed. At the very least the P-51 could stay high and zoom down on the T-6 and then escape with superior speed. So I agree with @sevenhelmet, a P-51 would win due to performance edge.OK, I'll nerd out a bit:
IMO, it would come down to pilot skill and/or armament. That said, once we arm and/or uprate the PT-6 engine, we aren't really talking about a "T-6" anymore. For a straight-up game of gun-only tag, the P-51 is significantly faster (500+ mph vs. about 360 mph) both in a dive and straight & level flight, so a savvy attacker might use "dive, boom, & zoom" tactics to get in quick snapshots, enable better use of the vertical, and deny T-6 gunshots. On the P-51 side of things, that's the first thing I'd try. A pure turning engagement is hard to assess without an EM diagram, but I'm betting it would be close enough that once either airplane is in your control zone, it's going to be hard to gain angles. However, as long as the P-51 doesn't get slow, he could still accelerate and/or dive to get outside gun range and gain turning room.
A high-energy, high-aspect start would probably become a series of follow-on merges with fleeting snapshots from both aircraft. Slow speed starts might favor the T-6, although a savvy P-51 pilot could evade long enough to gain energy and use his speed advantage. In typical fashion, the guy who makes the fewest mistakes would stand a good chance of winning.
My money's on the P-51.