It climbs better than mustang, so.... just because it has better climbing doesn't mean it was never nose heavy, I can tell that I've never heard of a 109 that fell backwards tail down. A 109 is not going to win 100% of the time in all of it's climbs in fights.
I do believe it was quite possible in doing a tail slide in a Bf 109 in real life. Don't know why you bring that up to try and prove some point about substained climb rates.
Sorry to go here, but if you think the 109 was so dominant,
I don't think anyone in this thread has tried to make that claim. Just because people have correctly stated that the Bf 109s had a better substained climb rate than the P-51D is not the same as saying the "Bf 109 is so dominant..." A lot of planes had a better climb rate than the Mustang.
why is it that ALL of its experienced pilots had been shot down by the pony as it came into the Euro. theather?
Seriously? I don't know where you've learned your WW2 history but where ever it was you need to find some place else. Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring ace of all time wasn't shot down by Mustangs as were a lot of Luftwaffe aces that only saw action on the Eastern Front
The pony in other words broke the back of the Luftwaffe, mainly to the near end of the war.
No, it was the P-47 that broke the back of the Luftwaffe
No one has said or implied that the Mustang was not a good plane, it clearly was. However, as someone else noted earlier, there is a big difference between the reality of the Mustang and the image portrayed by post-war propoganda.
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