The 262 was another instance where the allies have good cause to be grateful for Hitler! He delayed it coming into the battle by insisting that it be able to do dive bombing.
So far as I know it was mainly used in attacking the bomber streams.
I don’t know where the software writers of Microsoft’s FS3 got their performance figures from but they’re really easy to shoot down in a Vampire!
You should probably be able to get some info from the guys in US who have built three of them.

DH Venom headed south and banking towards North Weald 13.55 hrs over Ware Herts.

What sad news!
Although I only met him a couple of times he struck me as a man who had a ready laugh and really enjoyed life. He was on the flight line at OW only last year and I had no idea he might be ill.
As a fellow designer of sport scale models I looked up to him and in my earlier modelling years built a couple of his eminently buildable designs (Pup and 1,1/2 strutter) before launching out to design my own.
Another of his life achievements was his shop in Wellingborough.
He was a man who enriched the lives of many of us and for whose life we are grateful.
My condolences to the family.

Absolutely stunning Steve!

I was in no way denigrating your models – just noting the fact that we operate at opposite ends of the scale spectrum.
I don’t have first-hand knowledge of flying in winds above about 10kt because I don’t find it enjoyable. I don’t have to do it so I don’t.
And maybe that’s partly because of the lack of weight as you say.

I make mine on the basis that if it looks right on a slow fly-by that pretty much does it for me. Yours can stand close inspection – as we saw earlier with your Spit interior.

Notice I’m not asking how much of your life it took to build either!

Awesome stuff!

I second that joeyR!

Serious admiration of your workmanship Steve!
What sort of AUW has the Sea Fury?
Seeing it’s the LMA 60-70 pounds I would guess.
I DO NOT want to know what it cost!

My Dragonfly at 87″ (1:6 scale) weighed 8 pounds.

I normally find it hard to get back to repairs – it seems easier to just get on with the next model. There is a bit more impetus when the model hasn’t reached the publication stage though.
I WILL be getting the Dragonfly back in the air though. I have decided to build a new set of wings for it – to MY design this time – the laser cutter rather went his own way, ignoring some key features shown on my wing drawing and I found when the parts came and I had made up the first wings that they didn’t fit my already completed fuselage!
This time I will go through the hard slog of hand cutting out 134 ribs or riblets (the dread of which convinced me to try using a laser cutter in the first place).
We live and learn!

Well, that’s a bit different!
So someone got a soaking and a dressing down on the carpet all on the same day!

Owen Thetford gives XG603 as a C3 and XM295, XM296 and XR391 as C4s with the RAF. This in a section at the back of his book ‘Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918’. No mention of any secondments of course!