pretty much yes i felt like no matter how much i nosed down to pick up speed he just stayed with me.
On thing to consider is the warped perception of time you have when a con is on your tail. While a Typh may walk away from a slower plane in a dive in, say, 10 seconds, that 10 seconds are like an eternity when a con is on your tail.
And it's definitely long enough to get shot down.
To illustrate this, here's speed retention test I did between a very fast plane (P-51) and a very slow fighter (Brewster) in a different thread not too long ago. I dove to the deck, leveled out and recorded how quickly both fighters decelerated from the same initial speed:
As you can see, the Brewster sheds speed rapidly (it's one of the worst planes of our fighter planeset in this regard) but...
... you can also see it takes the pony at least 30s to get away far enough from the Brewster. More than enough time to get shot down.
And the Spit V keeps it's speed up better than the Brewster...
