How nice.
From Barbi:
"For people like Karnak, Angus or Squire, the Spitfire was just flawless, perfecto, best in everything. They`ll never change their mind."
Well Karnak pretty much sums this out, i.e. I pretty much agree with his listing.
That does not however put the 109 as the angel for the Problems are pretty much similar.
Such as....
Poor rollrate in the same period.
Insufficient firepower...in the same period even.
Even more sandwichboxed cockpit.
Even worse view to the rear.
Short endurance
Narrow landing gear.
Hight torque, - from 109D onwards (hehe, you want that quote, still have to translate it, - 109 taxiin and takeoff)
Anyway, on to Karnak.
Anything I red about the Mossies goes into the direction of the Mossie usually being able to outrun anything with a propeller.
My thought goes to the engines. There was a special emhasis on keeping the Mossie very fast, and those engines wore out quite quickly. (gradual power drops?) That was also a problem in the LW. So, maybe the Mossies in front line service were just a wee more fit in the muscle.
Makes me wonder, - if they had been contra-rot, how much faster would they have been?