I’ve searched to find out what are the fastest (level flight, any altitude) and highest-climber prop aircraft in the game, and i found several discussions about it, naming props like P-51H, Do-335, Tempest 2 and some others; but, there is no definite and clearly correct answer. I mean piston engined - no hybrids like Wyvern.
Can you guys please tell me which one (or, which two, if different for speed and altitude) aircraft(s) it is?
And i don’t mean stat cards. Stat cards often lie. I mean real gameplay - which one is actually the fastest and which one can reach higher altitude than any other prop, in actual RB / SB gameplay.
Thank you for all ideas and/or test results, if you have any, in advance! :)
It might not be the absolute fastest at high alt plane anymore, but it is still very very good and handles VERY well at high alt with its long wingspan, the Ta 152 H-1
Go take it into a test drive and see what you think. Back when this thing as added it could literally fly circles around all other planes. Nothing could even come close to catching it at high alt. Absolute nightmare for bombers. Again, not sure if it is still the best, see what other people have to say about it’s effectiveness nowadays in game.
I also think that some of the P-47’s with super-turbo chargers can fly at high alt very well. I am not well versed on the P-47’s though, so need to get more input for those.
400 km/h IAS @ 10km Alt. RB mode, minimum fuel load, still pulling faster, will see how fast I can get it to go without hitting end of map:
410 km/h IAS @ 10km Alt seems to be its max at 10km.
Not interested about who’s the fastest climber, but thanks for mentioning it anyway. :)
Fastest prop is definitely not P-51H, because i’ve tested it just today and it loses quite much to at least one other prop. Suffice to say, i’m only looking for props which can do 800+ km/h in level flight. Yep, that fast. %)
And like i said, no hybrids - A2D-1 is a hybrid, has those exhausts pushing it forward, so it’s a bit of a jet already.
Ta-152 H-1 was definitely a “UFO” back in the good old pre-missile-era days, yep. I bet it won’t be the fastest nor highest prop today, yeah - but for the sake of old times, i’ll test it and report here what i find, hopefully tomorrow at latest.
And, thanks for detailed post about it - the thing, IRL, was indeed one amazing piece of engineering thought! :)
edit / P.S.: oh, and please list all speeds in TAS, not IAS: different props get their max speed at different altitudes, and different altitudes means different TAS / IAS ratio. The only constant thing when comparing 'em - is TAS: how fast you move relative to the ground, purely geometrically.
Yep, i’ve heard Hornet mentioned in some other discussions, too - but right now i doubt it’ll be fastest or highest prop. I’ll test it for both and will report results here, hopefully soon.
