Topic: P-63 Kingcobra, P-40 head camera flights (Read 3452 times)

SAS~Gerax · « **on:** March 13, 2013, 08:48:23 PM »

P-63 Kingcobra head camera flight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGFoWfoMZfU

P-40:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y573kgU7jrg

dhtsword · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2013, 07:04:16 PM »

Very interesting ! Shows that the P-63 is not a good turning aircraft and unbelievably noisy, no wonder the engine being in fact 10 cm behind the back... ???, but very good view out of the cockpit and very lively on the stick with probably good rollrate, sadly there is no aerobatics done.

The P-40, I really like this aircraft somehow it's very classy and as the video shows quite stable with very good stability around the yaw axis certainly a very good gun platform, very good vision ahead, not that fast (see the airspeed indicator), very nice cockpit (allmost all switches in front of you, yet no cluttering) certainly a pilot's airplane, the very long takeoff run is a bit strange also the manifold pressure reading throughout is a low 28 inch. Not a top performer but still a very good airplane.

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SAS~Gerax

P-63 Kingcobra, P-40 head camera flights

dhtsword

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