What a treat this aircraft is! I agree with someone's comment that the hover stability is fantastic. Some people think it's ugly, but I think it has a brute purposefulness to it. This has become my favourite jet by far lol!
After a few test flights I've got the hang of it and now in some test dogfights against multiple enemies I've been transitioning to hover, catching my breath and then screaming off at terrain level to avoid AAMs! Jets trying to splash me have been flying into the ground after not being able to pull out of high speed gun runs and their AAMs have been slamming into the turf regularly. I think the latter is due to the accurate modelling of early AAMs and radars with limited 'look down/shoot down' capability.
I have only one question: I've seen some stats saying that the top speed of the '36 was 1,150 km/h, but at full throttle I've only been able to manage about 850 km/h, though at low level. I may have answered my own question there, but given that the stats don't specify whether the top speed mentioned is at sea level or altitude, does anyone have any more reliable stats? Either way, many thanks to Eric for his great work. What a corker!