I fly pretty much just Japanese aircraft now. That is mainly because growing up the Japanese air war, other than comments like "the Zeke burned and was a POS and that's why they lost", the plight of the Japanese was largely a mystery to me. Not as much has been written on them, compared to the other countries.
I do get taken back a little by folks who only fly one plane because they heard it won the war.
Through my reading and to some extent playing this game, ive learned that the "paper" stats of an airplane matter the least. And will venture to state that "straight line speed" is the most useless and miss leading stat that is often quoted in regards to flying/fighting in this game.
Ki-43....Banzai!