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Old 14th Jun 2010, 21:51
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JP1
 
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Spitfire Cruise Speed

Only 96 hours in the log book, but I am slowly building up those interesting sights that one sees from in the air.

I have now had the pleasure of formation ducks flying over me at 4000ft, a small helium balloon drift past the canopy at about 2000ft and on Sunday, meeting a Spitfire head on.

as he went past I did consider for a very brief moment pulling the AT3 hard over into a max rate turn after selecting machine guns!

So I was wondering if I had pushed everything forward and increased my crusie speed by 5 knots, what speed would he still have over me. Asuming I was still in the Sun and he hadn't spottted me
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