Originally Posted by
AOD_Danneskjold
Ha! What most people in Flight Sims don't realize is that, even in war time, the planes hardly ever went to max throttle. In real life, if you used your P-51 the same way you did in War Thunder, i.e. climbing and flying at WEP all the time, the flight engineer would have to do an overhaul that could take 20, 30, or even 40 hours to complete after every flight. If you did that several times, the crew chief may just take you into a back alley and whoop you good.