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00:00Hello everybody, Toronto here and welcome back to another episode of War Thunder.
00:04Now today I'm back on the patch 1.49 dev server to test the new aircraft.
00:10Now I wasn't able to test them as extensively as I wanted because the dev server is only up for a few hours and it's going to be closing in a few minutes I think.
00:20So this is just to get a basic outline of how the new aircraft will be.
00:26Now I haven't test flown all of the premium aircraft for the simple reason a lot of them are copy and paste.
00:32I test flew a few of the aircraft that aren't exactly copy and paste like the P-51D-10.
00:37I actually recorded this introduction after the video so you may hear me debating about test flying that a little bit but I do test fly it.
00:45The Japanese J2M2 I don't test fly because I've test flown before but I will link to it.
00:50Like I say it's just a really basic outlook of the new aircraft.
00:54It's not the most extensive of testing but just to give you a rough idea of how they will perform in game.
01:00Also the video you're about to see was actually originally part of another video so it may sound a little odd when it starts.
01:06I may be referring to something else at the beginning but other than that it should be pretty okay.
01:12There shouldn't be any conflicting issues.
01:14But without keeping you waiting any longer let's get straight into the episode.
01:18I haven't unlocked any new aircraft since then unfortunately but I've still got some of them I can test fly.
01:25Such as the P-51. I assume this is the A version but it has to be.
01:29Because it's the first P-51 on here.
01:32So we're going to test fly that first.
01:34Or actually before we test fly it we'll just take a look at the stat card and the model.
01:39So the max speed is 392 miles an hour.
01:43Turn time 20 seconds. Rate of climb 13 meters per second.
01:47So it's not too bad I don't think.
01:50Again standard armour. We did look at it before but just to give another look.
01:54So we'll quickly test fly this in Realistic.
01:57I do prefer to do it in Realistic than Arcade because it gives a better representation.
02:02I won't do it in Simulator because I just can't fly in Simulator.
02:06So here we are. Let's look at the cockpit while we're here.
02:10This has a more standard cockpit.
02:13It hasn't got the teardrop cockpit I don't think.
02:16Or is it teardrop? I believe that's the name for it.
02:19So it's got a nice little cockpit.
02:21And we've got 20mm cannons.
02:24A decent amount of ammo.
02:26Let's just get our gear up and flaps.
02:30So we'll pick up some speed first just before we start doing any major tests.
02:36Well there isn't really much to test just turn time speed.
02:40It's accelerating a lot slower than I was hoping.
02:44Now because I haven't unlocked it I assume this is going to be without any improvements added into it.
02:50So that's probably going to be a bit of a problem.
02:53But other than that it feels really sluggish.
02:59I'm not really sure how to put it other than that.
03:02We're at almost 400 metres.
03:05Oh I do apologise for the water effects.
03:08Basically every now and then a new patch comes out and it messes with all my graphics settings.
03:14I've been trying to fix it for the last few days.
03:17It's just not working.
03:20It's hard to fix because I don't usually write down what my previous graphics settings are.
03:28I'll just mess about with it for a few days and it always seems to fix itself.
03:34Right we're level off at about 700 metres.
03:37It was okay climbing but the speed is just not all that good.
03:42So we're starting to accelerate a little bit.
03:47We're starting to get to a decent speed now.
03:50200 miles an hour and we're still accelerating.
03:53So it's not very good at climbing and maintaining speed or getting extra speed.
04:00So try turning it.
04:03It feels somewhat sluggish turning.
04:08I don't usually fly the P-51s that often so it's hard for me to tell.
04:13I suppose slightly below average I'd describe the turn time.
04:22Let's see if we can do any loop-the-loops.
04:26No it doesn't want to do that at all.
04:29We're stalling out.
04:32While we're here I may try and test out the new landing mechanics.
04:37They've updated the damage model to make belly landings easier.
04:40I may give that a quick try while we're here.
04:43Which also gives us a chance to try out the dive speeds.
04:49So we're starting to pick up some decent speed here.
04:57Let's see how it reacts to suddenly pulling up and down.
05:00Oh god that blur.
05:02I do apologise.
05:05Once we're away from the water it fixes itself.
05:10It's especially noticeable around the coastline there.
05:14I'm going to stop pulling down and lowering speed in anticipation of a belly landing.
05:21Hopefully this will make it a lot easier for people to land their aircraft if they're damaged.
05:27At the moment it tends to destroy the aircraft which is unfortunate.
05:33So we're going to come around...
05:37Oops.
05:40Sorry if I skipped a bit there.
05:43I had to pause it for half a second.
05:46This isn't an ideal speed if I'm honest.
05:54I'll get my landing flaps out to try and slow us down a bit.
05:58Oh no, that's also creating lift.
06:01But there we go, it actually works.
06:04Yeah, we lost our engine. We got fuselage damage but the wings all stayed on.
06:09We also somehow spontaneously acquired bullet holes but there we go.
06:15Yeah, it's a nice little aircraft.
06:18I probably won't test fly the P-51D at the moment because it's a D-10 but it's got nearly the same stats as the D-30.
06:26It's got the same speed at the same height.
06:30Same max altitude, same turn time, same rate of climb.
06:35Takeoff run is the same, 396 metres.
06:41Armament preset, even the armament.
06:44Oh no, this has better armament.
06:47In the limited time I have to test all this I'm not sure there's going to be much point to testing the premium aircraft.
06:54I'll give it a really quick run out but I really don't think it's going to be that much different from the normal P-51.
07:01So here it is.
07:04It's got this unique camouflage, it's got the better canopy.
07:09So we're just going to take off quickly.
07:12I'm just going to stick it over the land really to avoid any of that blurriness.
07:17Right, gear up.
07:19Oh, I didn't actually mean to fire then.
07:23Come on, gear up.
07:26Right, so it seems pretty much the same as the D-30.
07:31It doesn't really feel any different if I'm honest.
07:36Again, you can see it's got much better performance over the D-80.
07:41I mean, we're already at 163 despite climbing and turning.
07:46So, let's start to pick up some speed.
07:50I don't know if the normal one has those things sticking up on the back.
07:55I don't remember them being on the D-30.
07:58This is technically a different aircraft variant but I'm not sure what the difference is.
08:03Oh, I do apologise for that blurriness bit there.
08:07So we're just going to get up to like 700 metres like we did with the D-80.
08:11And we've got there already.
08:14Climbed very well, we maintained speed a lot better.
08:18Try getting up to 200 miles per hour quickly.
08:22Yeah, it gets to 200 miles per hour in like a few seconds.
08:25And we're still climbing a little bit, I didn't mean to.
08:29Yeah, so it's still good for speed.
08:32Try turning it.
08:35It loses a lot of height while doing it.
08:38I pointed it upwards but it doesn't want to do it.
08:42It seems a lot better turning as well.
08:46I don't know, maybe the same.
08:49It's hard to really compare I suppose.
08:52Try again diving, see how much speed we can pick up in this really short dive.
08:58I mean yeah, in just a few hundred feet of dive we managed to pick up nearly 70 odd miles per hour.
09:03We've nearly gone to 300 miles per hour just from a little dive.
09:07See how the belly landing works at higher speeds as well maybe.
09:14Just while we're here.
09:17At 200 miles per hour I think we're at 130 with the other one.
09:22Although we're losing speed very quick.
09:25I don't know if that's good or bad.
09:28But again, higher speed we managed to hit the ground and survive.
09:31So yeah, we'll leave that.
09:34So that was the two American aircraft.
09:37I can't test fly the AD-2 because I haven't unlocked the PBJ-1J unfortunately.
09:41So I can't test fly that.
09:44Germans, there's two new aircraft.
09:47The C-3 I can't test fly because again I haven't got the previous Arado.
09:50But I can test fly the Bf-109B-1L.
09:53So we'll quickly look at that again.
09:56Oh, wasn't meant to click it so quick.
09:59It does look like a good aircraft.
10:03Stats...
10:06Not really sure what to think of the stats.
10:09It does seem like an OK max speed.
10:12Turn time seems quite bad though.
10:15It's got no armour protection.
10:18Rate of climb isn't all that great either.
10:21So we'll just quickly take it for a spin.
10:24So here we are in the German Bf-109B.
10:27And again a nice little cockpit.
10:31Only two machine guns on this.
10:34So it's a bit underwhelming firepower wise.
10:37Let's see if we can get in the air.
10:40Right, so we're in the air.
10:43Gears up, landing flaps up.
10:46Oh god, I don't know.
10:49It feels like we're going really fast but I've just looked at the speed.
10:52And we're only going 100mph or so.
10:55Maybe it's just where this is a lot smaller than the American airfield.
10:58I don't know.
11:01It just felt like we were going really fast when we're actually not.
11:04I do apologise if the engine sounds a bit weird.
11:07I was having massive problems trying to get this.
11:10Basically the engine was deafening and everything.
11:13This was really the only option I had to get it so you could hear me really.
11:16Oh, speed is not good at all.
11:19I mean, it's only tier 2.
11:22But the acceleration...
11:25Yeah, we're trying to climb and we're losing a lot of speed.
11:28We're at 500mph and we're already losing a tonne of speed.
11:34Well, not a tonne but quite a lot.
11:37Get to 170mph.
11:40700mph.
11:43Level it off.
11:46See how we go with picking up speed.
11:49Acceleration isn't all that great.
11:53I don't know, it's starting to accelerate a bit now.
11:56Before that, it seems like if you're doing anything other than level flight you're going to be struggling a little bit.
12:02We'll get to 200mph and then we'll try turning it.
12:06Right, 200mph.
12:09Acceleration is starting to slacken off a little bit I think as well.
12:12We'll try to turn it.
12:15Feels a lot better turning than the P-51.
12:19Again, that could just be me being biased.
12:22I don't know.
12:25It felt like it was a lot quicker than the P-51.
12:28Quickly see how diving works.
12:31Oh god, we're picking up a lot of speed there.
12:34It's starting to go all over the place.
12:41Pull up, pull up, pull up.
12:44A lot of overload in there.
12:47Now this does that a lot better than the P-51 does.
12:50Oddly.
12:53We tried it in the P-51 and I stalled out before I could even do it.
12:56Whereas the Bf 109, it was just done in a second.
12:59I'm not really sure what else to test.
13:02I'm not really used to testing out aircraft.
13:05I'm not really sure what parameters most people are looking for other than turn time and speed.
13:10So, try landing this just anywhere.
13:14So we can get back to the rest of the aircraft.
13:17So we can get back to the rest of the aircraft.
13:20I don't even need to land it.
13:23It loses speed very quickly.
13:26Wow, we actually survived that.
13:29Okay.
13:32That's good.
13:35So we'll test out the Ki-21 quickly.
13:38Just see how it is.
13:41Have a quick look at it first.
13:44See if it will load.
13:47So here we are.
13:50No armour.
13:53Quite slow compared to most fighters around this time.
13:56Quite slow compared to most fighters around this time.
13:59It seems quite slow.
14:02It looks really sleek, but it's a stat card.
14:05268 miles an hour.
14:08Awful turn time and rate of climb.
14:11But, again, it is a bomber so it's somewhat to be expected.
14:14Let's see if we can change the bomb loadout to something more...
14:17250kg bombs is probably what I'd be carrying personally.
14:20250kg bombs is probably what I'd be carrying personally.
14:23The smaller bombs just aren't all that useful, so I'll be sticking with these ones.
14:26The smaller bombs just aren't all that useful, so I'll be sticking with these ones.
14:29As they're probably going to represent what most people are using.
14:32So here we are then.
14:35Oh, there we go.
14:38Oh, there we go.
14:41Oh, enough of the sound of those machine guns.
14:44I mean, they're not new, but I don't use them that often.
14:47So you've got your back gunner.
14:50So you've got your back gunner.
14:53We have got a front gunner, but he's got a really weird firing arc.
14:56We have got a front gunner, but he's got a really weird firing arc.
14:59He fires forwards, but downwards or something.
15:02That seems a bit odd, if I'm honest.
15:05That seems a bit odd, if I'm honest.
15:08That's an awful firing arc.
15:11It's basically another tail gunner.
15:14It's basically another tail gunner.
15:17It's basically only able to shoot downwards.
15:20It's basically only able to shoot downwards.
15:23Usually having some sort of front gunner is good, because you can shoot what's coming at you.
15:26But here, you'd have to pull the aircraft up like that.
15:29But here, you'd have to pull the aircraft up like that.
15:32And then keep flying like that to give him an actual shot at anything.
15:35He seems like he's just dead weight at the moment.
15:38I mean, what fighter actually attacks you from that angle anyway?
15:41Oh, went a bit laggy there.
15:44Alright, so we'll start with the testing now.
15:47I've just gone through and moaned about the gunners.
15:50Alright, we're getting it pointing towards land again.
15:53It does look like a very nice aircraft.
15:56I must say.
15:59But yeah, get it pointing towards land again.
16:02Pick up some altitude.
16:05Yeah, rate of climb is not very good.
16:08This is with bombs, by the way.
16:11If you're a bomber pilot, you're obviously going to be taken off with bombs.
16:14Because it's not going to work as a fighter.
16:17So there's no reason to get rid of your bombs early.
16:20Can we even get to 700 metres with this bomb load?
16:24Oh, we can, but very slowly.
16:27We are accelerating as we climb.
16:30Which is better than a lot of aircraft, but still not great.
16:33Get to 500 metres.
16:36See how that does.
16:39We're at 550.
16:42Starting to accelerate a lot faster now.
16:45This is with full weapons only.
16:48You can see the engine's already at 170 nearly.
16:51Get to 700 metres.
16:54And then we level it out.
16:57Right, level it out.
17:00Alright, we're starting to accelerate a decent amount.
17:03I'll try test bombing something just to see how it improves.
17:06Once we get to about 200 miles an hour.
17:12Also try and... oh god.
17:15Turning even slightly just loses...
17:18Oh god, that bleeds of speed awfully.
17:21I haven't even turned properly in almost 20 miles an hour.
17:24I mean, of course turning isn't as important in a bomber.
17:27But drop our bombs, see how that improves things.
17:30If it does.
17:33Right.
17:36Well, it improved the acceleration a lot.
17:39We're at 150 miles an hour.
17:42160.
17:45Try turning it again.
17:48No.
17:51Once you've pulled the aircraft up and started turning it does seem okay.
17:54I suppose it's just that initial decision to turn.
17:57That's where you're going to lose most of your speed.
18:00So it seems okay.
18:03It seems like a decent bomber.
18:06Speed wise.
18:09But that defensive armament is just awful.
18:12It bleeds off speed like mad.
18:15I mean, we're diving and we're losing speed.
18:18I know we've got our landing flaps out and we haven't got our engines on.
18:21But you'd think it'd pick up a little bit of speed.
18:24So we'll try out the belly landing because we haven't done it with bombers yet.
18:27And... yep.
18:30It worked perfectly fine.
18:33Lost our engine, but the fuselage is okay.
18:36And everything else is okay.
18:39Nope, we don't want to restart.
18:42So that's the Ki-21.
18:45I probably won't test fly the J2M2 because the dev server closes in like an hour or so.
18:48Although I will link you to where I test flew it before as well.
18:51So you can watch that.
18:54Now Britain got a lot of new aircraft.
18:57But unfortunately I can't really test fly any of them.
19:00Essentially.
19:03I can't really test fly any of the...
19:07...Fleet Air Armour aircraft.
19:10I can test fly the Sea Gladiator, but I'm not even sure if it's going to be all that different.
19:13As far as I'm aware it's a normal Gladiator.
19:16But with some navalised fittings like an arrester hook and all that.
19:19So here we are with the Sea Gladiator.
19:22And we start off on an aircraft carrier.
19:25Which I suppose makes sense.
19:28Oh god, we're already in the air.
19:31Wasn't expecting it though.
19:35Goodbye rest of the fleet.
19:38Where's the land? There we are.
19:41That's a good little plane this.
19:44So let's see how it handles.
19:47Remember it is a biplane.
19:50And you've got your four machine guns.
19:53We're gaining height kind of quick.
19:56Although we're not really getting much.
19:59Oh, we're accelerating quite a bit now.
20:03We're at nearly 300 metres.
20:06Actually no, we're starting to slack off a little bit on acceleration.
20:09And it doesn't feel like we're climbing that fast.
20:12If I'm honest.
20:15I may only do this up to 500 metres.
20:18We'll see what pulling up the nose a bit more does.
20:21Okay, that loses us quite a bit more speed at this angle.
20:24I'll get to 500.
20:27See how far we can go before we get a stall warning.
20:31Right.
20:34I don't know how you activate the tail fork.
20:37I believe it just activates when you go to land on the carrier.
20:40I've never actually landed on a carrier properly in a multiplayer game.
20:43Right, so we get to about 70 miles an hour and it stalls.
20:46We'll get to 700 metres just because we're there.
20:49Right, levelling it off.
20:52See if we can pick up some speed.
20:55Where's our speed in here?
20:58Ah, there we go.
21:01Is it not?
21:04Right, coming up to 140 miles an hour.
21:07Test fire the guns again.
21:10Like I said, nice little aircraft.
21:13We'll start heading back towards the fleet.
21:16Which gives us a chance to test out the turning on this.
21:19Now biplanes do turn very fast.
21:22Although we are losing quite a bit of speed.
21:25So I think I probably started turning that way too prematurely.
21:28So yeah, it turns quite good.
21:31Or very good.
21:34I can't actually test out her crash landing on this.
21:37Because obviously we have fixed undercarriage.
21:40So we would have to lose them somehow.
21:43So try diving it.
21:46Or try doing it in level flight for the minute.
21:49Because we haven't tried that yet.
21:52While climbing a little bit.
21:55Not much, but we're nearly at 200 miles an hour.
21:58So it seems to do okay I suppose.
22:01I'm getting this tier 1, so it seems to be...
22:04It's to be expected it's not going to be that great.
22:07It seemed to sort of max out around...
22:10Not max out, but got to about 180.
22:13See if we can land this on the aircraft carrier.
22:16We do have some basic landing flaps.
22:19Whether I actually need them, I don't think I will.
22:22We're diving, we're at 213.
22:25We start to slow down a bit.
22:28Right.
22:31This is going to be very embarrassing I suspect.
22:34Yeah, there we go.
22:37The landing hook's coming out.
22:40Or tail hook.
22:43I need to get it there.
22:46Now remember I don't actually land on carriers all that often.
22:49Right, fire the guns to slow us down.
22:52Hook, hook, hook.
22:55No, missed it.
22:58It still manages to keep in the air.
23:01Most other aircraft just fly off at this point.
23:04Give it one last go at landing.
23:07Lose some speed.
23:10I'm sort of worried I'm going to lose too much speed.
23:13Guns again.
23:16Come on, hook!
23:19Ah, there we go.
23:22Finally hooked.
23:25Right, so that's the Sea Gladiator.
23:28And that was my first proper landing on an aircraft carrier.
23:31Helps slow time away from me.
23:34So we go back to the hangar.
23:37Now the last aircraft are the Russian ones.
23:40The Yak-9M and the various R2s.
23:43Now I'm going to test fly the Yak-9M.
23:46Because this is actually a whole new aircraft.
23:49So if we let this load a sec.
23:52We can see in the stats 383 mph.
23:55I actually looked at it before.
23:58It's better than the Yak-9Ts and Ks.
24:01But it's sort of inferior to the U's and P's.
24:04At max speed and most other areas.
24:07So it will be good to see how this works.
24:10Again, basic armour around your cockpit.
24:13And other than that, nothing too remarkable.
24:16Does it carry bombs?
24:19No, it doesn't carry bombs.
24:22Although if it did, it would probably be those 50kg ones.
24:25So we'll give that a quick test flight.
24:28So here we are in the Yak-9M.
24:31We don't seem to have WEP.
24:34We're picking up speed pretty fast.
24:37So let's see how it goes.
24:40Picking up speed and height very quickly.
24:43So already it's doing quite well there.
24:46And this is without WEP, remember.
24:49And this is at quite a high angle.
24:52Although if we move it up a little bit more.
24:55Oh no, it didn't affect it too much actually.
24:58So let's see how it goes.
25:01Oh no, it didn't affect it too much actually.
25:04Already 600 metres.
25:07Coming up to 700.
25:10Leveling it off at about 700.
25:16And we accelerate pretty damn fast.
25:19180 already, coming up to 200.
25:22Now I've got limited fuel on this.
25:25So that sort of simulates how your normal battles would be going as well.
25:29And we're already at 220.
25:32I don't know when it will actually start levelling out.
25:35And we're actually picking up altitude as well.
25:38I didn't even realise.
25:41We'll get to 250 and then I'll probably start doing turning tests.
25:44So we're at about 250.
25:47Let's see how turning is.
25:50Oh, it turns very quick.
25:53Not as quick as the Sea Gladiator.
25:56But very quick.
25:59Although we did lose 200 metres in the process.
26:02Let's see if we can do a loop-the-loop.
26:05It didn't want to do it properly.
26:08It sort of turned to the side.
26:11But it wasn't a proper loop-the-loop.
26:14I don't think I've actually done a proper loop-the-loop.
26:17Because either they all stalled out or it just didn't work out for some reason.
26:21In a dive, again only a few hundred metres.
26:24We managed to get to 330 miles an hour.
26:27Let's see if I can put this down quickly.
26:30Somewhere.
26:33Ah, there's a road.
26:36Oh, no, tree.
26:39Oh, no, don't worry.
26:42This is a good lumberjack plane.
26:45Oh no, we did even lose the aileron.
26:48We just slightly battered it.
26:51Apparently 200 miles per hour is a little too quick for the belly landings to work.
26:54Although whether the damaged wing played any part in that, I don't know.
26:57We'll go back to the hangar.
27:00The next plane I test is the R2-37.
27:03The recording went a bit weird, so I'm doing this post-commentary.
27:06I can't actually test fly the R2-M1943.
27:09Because I haven't unlocked the R2-37.
27:12So I give the R2-37 a 5 out of 10.
27:15It's a good plane.
27:18I'll give the R2-37 a fly out.
27:21As well as the R2-1942.
27:24Which replaces the current R2 in-game.
27:27So we'll test fly the R2-37 first.
27:30So here we are.
27:33It's still got its tail gunner, so that's good.
27:36Let's see how the cockpit is.
27:39Can't see any major changes.
27:42It does feel very sluggish.
27:45Oh god.
27:48I believe we don't have cannons on this.
27:51Just the machine gun and anti-tank weapons.
27:54And we're struggling to even get off the ground.
27:57Oh great.
28:00Just warning me how it's going to be for the rest of this flight.
28:03Just warning me how it's going to be for the rest of this flight.
28:06Right, this thing feels really, really sluggish.
28:09And you lose a lot of speed when firing your guns.
28:12Well, we're losing speed anyway.
28:15Not even at that high of an angle.
28:18Just losing speed like hell though.
28:21We'll get to 500m because this is going to take forever to get to 700m.
28:24We'll get to 500m because this is going to take forever to get to 700m.
28:27I'm not even sure we're going to get to 700m.
28:30It's just ridiculous.
28:33We're barely accelerating at an angle where we're barely gaining any height.
28:36We're barely accelerating at an angle where we're barely gaining any height.
28:40We'll get to 500m and we'll level it off and see how that goes.
28:43We'll get to 500m and we'll level it off and see how that goes.
28:46Right.
28:49With full WEP we're gaining some speed but it's really, really slow going.
28:52With full WEP we're gaining some speed but it's really, really slow going.
28:55Yeah, this is just going to be slow as hell.
28:58There's no way around it.
29:01I'm going to try turning it.
29:04Oh god, this is really sluggish.
29:07I know R2s aren't exactly meant to be fully manoeuvrable but this is ridiculous.
29:10And I know he's got those huge guns but I don't think the Stuka G's have this problem.
29:13And I know he's got those huge guns but I don't think the Stuka G's have this problem.
29:16Now we've started to overheat our water.
29:19I can't even do a full turn because we've just lost a ton of height doing that.
29:22I'll see what happens when we test fire the guns.
29:25I'll see what happens when we test fire the guns.
29:28So test firing the guns loses you about a mile per hour.
29:31So test firing the guns loses you about a mile per hour.
29:34Machine guns don't seem to have an effect, but losing that sort of speed isn't too bad
29:40most of the time.
29:41But, you know, if you're in level flight or something, but, I don't know, if you're at
29:49really low speed, and, oh, we've managed to hit the treetops, yeah, that was probably
29:55my fault actually.
29:56But, I don't know, that feels way too sluggish for, you know, anything, I mean, for ground
30:03combat, it's not going to matter too much, but, if an enemy fighter comes near you, you
30:07can't really dogfight, you know, defensive, not wrong, but, you can't really do, you know,
30:12try and take them out like you could with the other ones.
30:14I'll let you look at the R2-1930, um, R2-37, I keep calling it the 1937.
30:21You can see it's stats, max speed 239 miles an hour, turn time 40 seconds, rate of climb
30:268.3 metres a second, so, you can see it wasn't meant to be a fast aircraft.
30:32I'll test fly the R2-1942, just to see if the residue changes, ah, this has a cool new
30:38paint job on it, and, of course, this doesn't have the, um, tail gunner, so, that's probably
30:44going to help with manoeuvrability, but, already, you can see we're picking up way more speed
30:49than with the other aircraft.
30:52Get that gear in, I mean, we're accelerating and gaining quite a bit of height, which,
31:01you know, we just couldn't do in that 37mm variant, probably, no, we can't, we've got
31:09fully loaded on bombs and rockets, because that's what you would be using, you know,
31:14in a match, so, it would be unfair to get rid of them, because it would sort of skew
31:17the results.
31:18Okay, once we gained a bit of height, it did seem to drop off in the acceleration, but
31:24we're at 400m already, and, we're still climbing, 450, and, 500m, and we're at 122mph, we'll
31:38level it off once we get to about 700, oh, that's too high, angle, er, 600m, er, can
31:48we do it before we stall out, I'll get to about, I'll see if we can just do one last
31:54push to 700, come on, come on, come on, come on, and, there we go, level it out, see what
32:01the speed's like, now, I don't usually use the R2s in, I don't think I've ever used this
32:07one properly in the realistic battles, so I don't know how it compares to how it is
32:12in game already, but, it seems quite good, considering it's a heavily armed and armoured
32:16aircraft, I mean, you can tell it's not meant to be much of a fighter, but, let's just quickly
32:24get rid of the bombs, you know, into our target, drop our bombs, so, we're struggling, we're
32:31not struggling, but we're quite slow at getting to 200mph, try turning it once we get to 200,
32:42see how it does, does reasonably well actually, I mean, maybe not the fastest, but we don't
32:47lose much speed or altitude, lost about 100m doing that, and maybe 20mph, you know, it's
32:58hardly worth mentioning, see if we can barely land this, I mean, this has a tonne of armour,
33:05so it has to do better than the Yak-9M, loses speed quite quickly, even in a dive, try it
33:18in a cockpit view, I haven't done that yet, could either go brilliantly or awful, no,
33:29we lost our wing, yeah, I think I did that way too fast, although, on the bright side,
33:36the rest of the plane stayed intact, and, oh actually, we spontaneously erupted in bullet
33:41holes again, but I think I'll leave that here for this episode, because, like I said, I've
33:48already test flown pretty much all the aircraft in this episode or in previous episodes, but
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