Last night you had me sir.... You tapped my rudder off, left aileron & gave the PW...The right wing was full of holes. If it weren't for
lost4554 &
ezglider, along with
Merc17, I'd have been done for. And where the
Jug D model's fall short, the
N has enough speed at low alts to keep up with the
MossieB, provided it's in an E retention state (ie. from a dive). Next time at high alt versus the
N, I'm probably going to try something else besides dive. Maybe a split-s or even, dare I say, something similar to the good ole Erich Hartmann maneuver.... Not really fully, but just to get a quick vector change, then rely on the Merlin's.
I've intercepted new mossie 4 times now, at high alt..
One was a still-heavy formation at about 20k, which I completely jumped with a p47d11, all 3 dead, and one was a still-heavy single at about 30k which I patiently climbed to over a sector or two in a 109k4.
The other two were that bastage llogan in singles just after his drop, 2 nites in a row 
.. caught him once in the p47d11, pinged, but mossie can dive and outrun, and he puts up that sortie!
tonight, caught him (deja vu) in p47n, this time, was able to keep up pretty good in the dive, shot hell out of him, but spraying from 600-800 and running out of ammo only gave him a PW. 
