While doing research for a school project I found that planes like the Spitfire and
P-51 employed something called the meredith effect in where they used the excess heat from the radiator sort of as a small ramjet. Is this why the P-51 could go 400mph+? I will perform some tests and maybe make a reuploaded P-51A with the Scoop to help propel it 430 mph?
Yea, it was a secondary effect of the radiator... They also faced the exhaust pipes backwards to get 70extra HP on the first spitfire... The details a fascinating! The first test pilot of the spitfire famously said "I want it just the way it is!" Funny thing is he was talking to the ground crew saying to leave it the way it is so he can run some more tests!
Huh I thought the radiators where in that position so thee flowing air would cause a suction pulling hotter air out faster and causing a cooler and their fore more throttle efficient engine(so almost like over clocking a cpu )
Yes it is true, discovered by a British engineer in 1936 (his last name was Meredith) and was first used on the prototypes of the super marine spitfire and hawker hurricane
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@DeezDucks I read about that not long ago in some dog-fighting book.
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@RamboGaming Nah I'm making a MK.III
You could try to implement this in a XP-51G
I remember reading about it a long time ago
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Huh, that's a cool effect. I'm afraid it won't work in SP, though. Not that that stops us, because we can just make our engines more powerful!
Maybe..