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It has come to my attention that Cuphead and Mugman's speed when in their airplanes has been listed as transonic, solely because he 'can fly at the average speed of a plane.' This I find is problematic, for two reasons: there's no evidence to support this, and it's completely unfounded.
Firstly, the game of Cuphead clearly takes place in the 1930s from the various Roman numeral dates we see throughout the game, and the first plane to have broken the sound barrier was the Bell X-1, which didn't break the sound barrier until October of 1947.
Secondly, the airplane levels featured in Cuphead do not show any indication of surpassing the minimum transonic speed requirements for this wiki. We do not see a sonic boom, and there's nothing else in the game we can scale speed off of reliably.
The in-game achievement 'Bravo Zulu P-26' indicates the planes Cuphead and Mugman are piloting are based on the Boeing P-26 Peashooter, which definitely looks similar to the ones featured in-game. These planes have a recorded top flying speed of 105 m/s, which is what this wiki identifies as subsonic. Even if we assume the speed of the planes doubles upon shrinking, that's still 209.2 m/s, still in the subsonic range.
Firstly, the game of Cuphead clearly takes place in the 1930s from the various Roman numeral dates we see throughout the game, and the first plane to have broken the sound barrier was the Bell X-1, which didn't break the sound barrier until October of 1947.
Secondly, the airplane levels featured in Cuphead do not show any indication of surpassing the minimum transonic speed requirements for this wiki. We do not see a sonic boom, and there's nothing else in the game we can scale speed off of reliably.
The in-game achievement 'Bravo Zulu P-26' indicates the planes Cuphead and Mugman are piloting are based on the Boeing P-26 Peashooter, which definitely looks similar to the ones featured in-game. These planes have a recorded top flying speed of 105 m/s, which is what this wiki identifies as subsonic. Even if we assume the speed of the planes doubles upon shrinking, that's still 209.2 m/s, still in the subsonic range.