You don't chase down Typhs, P-51s, or "pace" D9s in a Mossie. Nor do you E-fight with nearly 5K a minute in climb rate to work with....
You have completely missed the point i was attempting to make- how will someone know how a plane performs with 25 kills, flown in such a conservative manner, that the only time the stall horn or buffet was heard was on landing. If the old mossie was flow in the exact same manner, one would never encouter it's dreadful stall charcteristics and as far as they were aware had none.
A mossie with an alt advantage just as the spit14 requires one, can run down all of the aircraft mentioned in your quote,the mossie has good acceleration in a dive. As mentioned before, the only way a spit14 could keep pace the d9 was if it wasn't using WEP, it's generally accepted that when comparisions regarding speed is made, both aircraft are using WEP, not one.
The D9 is about 15 mph faster than the spit14, almost all of the midwar aircraft are about 15mph slower than the spit14, most of the aircraft found in LW arena have the ability to "pace" the spit14. With WEP off the spit14 is limted to a not so stellar 330mph, almost all aircraft bar the early planes are within 15mph, the n1k is only 4mph slower. When the d9 WEP runs out it has to worry about the spit14, when the spit14 WEP runs out it has to worry about the
whole arena.
Bnz you have misunderstood lusches post too, performance by numbers does not give a complete representation of an aircraft, turn circles for instance give you some numbers but it doesn't tell you how effective the aircraft is in a turn fight for instance:
-The mossie has poor figures but can turn fight with a lot of planes because it is incredibly stable all the way up to the stall, the pilot can push it to the edge of it's envelope with ease.
-The old 109s in contrast could in theory outturn many fighters but were effectively unable to turnfight aircraft that it could in theory. This was because as the 109 approched the edge of it's envelope it would wobble all over place, forcing it out of the turn.
Baldeagl, comparing kd is next to useless- for instance, according to yours the 190a5 needs perking because it has a kd 50% greater than the spit14. I could post my own and make some aircraft look fantastic and others very poor.
My apologies for the wall of text.
