[Normy]

That pig was happiest when it was going straight down! It's just like a Piper Arrow IV- you pull the power back, and it develops a LUST for the ground! It won't glide at all, and you had BETTER turn toward the runway right now if the motor quits!

The P-47 was the same way. Pilots in WWII used to use the supercharger to go to FL330 or something similar; when they saw Focke-Wuif or Messerschmidt designs rise against bomber formations, they dove and attacked....very effectively. Since they could close on the FW or M German fighters at over 500 mph, their attacks were effective. German fighters in 1944 or or 1945 were typically flown by teen-aged boys, who had little training, and half the time destroyed the airplane upon landing. American pilots were highly experienced, so the battle was usually over before it even started-

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