Originally Posted by
Diamondback
Good luck with quantifiable hard numbers... first, hard turn rates and speeds were not exactly well documented at the time nor even subject to good measuring equipment for getting those numbers, and second while Wings is relatively "open source" with hard stats where we can back-figure an unreleased plane's numbers from comparisons with similar-performing aircraft Sails is a lot more "Secret Sauce" in how the math works. (Frankly, I'm not even sure there IS any math, it seems more like "fling spaghetti at the wall and hope it sticks" sometimes. This ad-hoc "on the fly" approach has meant some tight needles to thread, and then there's the blatant Munchkinry with the Spanish...)