A stock Nobler or any close derivative is utterly incapable of flying like, say, Paul Walker flew the Impact in the early 90s. Its just impossible to make the corners look like that (i.e. correct) with a Nobler.
I cannot disagree with the above statement in any way.
During Open Top 20 last year I asked Paul to critque a practice session with my .61 Gieseke Nobler in an attempt to extract the most performance I could. The consenus was there wasnt much more I could do. I think Paul said words to the effect of ( Your getting as much out of it as possible ) I doubt anyone has flown a Nobler with an equivilant power to weight ratio so we can expect performance to be good compared to today.
The issue is the performance envelope has increased so far that the older designs just do not go where the modern ships go - I knew where I wanted to put it, but the limitations of the design were such that it just wouldnt track along the lines it needed to go.
Think of it like a F1 car vs a high performance sports car ; no matter how hard you try one cannot go that deep into a corner to match its performance.
This was a similar issue , could not go as deep as I needed to - the stopping force was in design. Tracking rounds were closer... but the pattern is much more than simple rounds or tracking.
I am far less convinced that we have made a lot/any improvement since the late 80's/Early 90s in terms of ultimate performance.
Hard to disagree with that either...