Originally posted by Widewing
Now, let's look at variations in load out. You are flying fully armed 109K-4 with about 50% of internal fuel remaining. You run into a P-51D with 25% fuel and only 1/3 of his ammo remaining. He elects to avoid an engagement. He dives for the deck with you chasing. You both level off at abut 50 feet doing around 450 mph.
You will never catch him until long after he runs out of WEP.
My regards,
Widewing [/B]
I must say, I fly the 109K4 almost exclusively at the moment and I have have found nothing but great ease in catching and killing P-51Ds.
Perhaps they all over-load themselves like greedy pigs, but I have never had a problem closing to 200yards and tearing their wings off.
At the very most I've had a P-51 maintain an equal distance to me for a few miles while I was RTB ammo. He closed to 2.0k and could get no closer, so I landed my kills without incident.
I find your research to be most interesting though, so thank you for putting in the effort.
Regards,
-Arch
