They lost to better easer to use and in greater quantitys of equipment
The German single lever control systems were praised by all the allies for their ease of control. The Germans excelled at simplifying a pilots workload in combat.
They lost to poor design
German designs concentrated on performance with a common design philosophy of the smallest airplane with the most powerful engine available. The was the design philosophy of most of the major combatants in WWII.
The German designs remained competative against their contemprary opponents throughout the war. We can see this in our restoration of both axis and allied fighter designs.
I:E: 109s 15mins of flight time over England in the BOB
Overcoming range limitations while maintaining acceptable performance was an engineering problem faced by all combatants. The United States was pretty much the only ones to achieve this goal. They also built the largest fighter aircraft of any combatant.
As you point out with your Tiger tank analogy, the Germans biggest engineering fault was overengineering their designs. This makes many of their individual designs a great piece of equipment to accomplish it's design purpose.
This trait also worked against them in the electronic warfare arena for the both the U-Boats and the Nightfighters.
But they allso posted many many of thoes kills when the were the hoard sweeping the skys of out matched and out numbered pilots over Poland France Britton Russia etc etc.
Not correct either. The Kill ratios of the majority of the "Experten" stayed steady as long as they fought.
The worlds leading ace did not even enter combat until 1942.
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2History-ErichHartmann.htmlEverything else you posted is correct.
All the best,
Crumpp
