Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Let’s Settle This. What Was the Fastest Piston Fighter Ever?" video.

@Frankie5Angels150 It's a JOKE for F's sake! The 163 had a tiny little airscrew in the nose. I think it was for driving the electrics or something, I've forgotten.
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@WarblesOnALot Correct.
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@yannichudziak9942 Many different categories of "top speed". The DH Sea Hornet achieved an AVERAGE speed of 436 mph on a flight between Gibraltar and RAF Bovingdon in 1949. Read its Wiki page. Puts all the short-burst max-boost claims into context. OK this was postwar, but the Hornet was designed from 1942 onwards.
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@PlumSack79 That's the JOKE!
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@Andy-ub3ub Hahaha!
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@pewpscoop Winkle Brown tested the maximum diving speeds of fighters at Farnborough, both during and after the war. Brown tested the Mustang at the request of the USAAF. I can't remember the Mach numbers recorded, find them via Wiki. The Tempest achieved the highest Mach number of any wartime piston-engined fighter, faster than the Mustang and identical to the Meteor. The Tempest's speed was put down to its thin wing, much thinner than that of the Typhoon. The 262 was marginally faster than the Tempest and the Meteor. In real-life combat, no pilot would be so stupid as to push their aircraft to the absolute limits of its flight envelope.
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Many different kinds of "fastest". The DH Sea Hornet achieved an AVERAGE speed of 436 mph between Gibraltar and RAF Bovingdon in 1949. See the Sea Hornet's Wiki page. Other fighters were faster in short bursts, but none could beat the Sea Hornet's speed for a long-range flight.
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