if its easy to do, i dont have anything to prove, just interested
Well, I just did a weighted sort set to 1 for both "low alt" and "high alt" top speed. Then I took the whole list and cut everything except the planes that can only be had in LW out of it. Since you insist I should remove early and mid war planes *slower* than the SpitXVI, it is only fair to also remove the mid-war planes that are *faster*, such as the F4U-1 and P-51B. If I had made any gross errors in my list whittling, please let me know.
After that, the list looks like this
(The F4U 1-A will fit in there somewhere above the SpitXVI*)
1. 109K4
2. Fw190D9
3. P-51D
4. P-47N
5. La7
6. Ta 152H
7. 109 G-14
8. Yak 9-U
9. SpitXVI
10.P-47D-40
11.P-47D-25
12.P-38
13.Fw-190 A-8
14.Fw-190 F-8
15.Ki-84
16.N1K2-J
17.*
So, out of 17 unperked LW planes, the SpitXVI is faster than 7, or 41% of them. That is still fair-to-middlin', not "slow", unless one also considers the P-47D-40, 190 A-8, P-38, and Ki-84 as "slow". Which no one does. Note that of the LW planes faster than the SpitXVI, the only one that can be considered equally/more maneuverable is the F4U-1A. Note that of the LW planes slower than the SpitXVI, most are decidedly less maneuverable. Whether the SpitXVI is more maneuverable than the Ki or N1K is debatable, we'll call it equal.