Acceleration is basically climb rate.
This^^^
Also at what altitude.
A lot of triangulating physics in a dogfight.
“He out climb me when he shouldn’t”
At what alt and what was E of both planes when it happened.
Too many variables.
If a late war plane can stomp a 109 it’s because that was the exact intent of the design, to beat the 109s.
A Yak in a TnB with a simple F4, his butt is grass. A F4 using flaps in a TnB the Yak has almost zero chance to get inside the turn for a shot.
Point being, comparing later war planes to a 109 is kinda fubar.
Top it off, depending on the model the 109 can be a handful. I found the K-4 to be a real handful to fly for a D9 jocky. It’s opposite of my style of flying. And only 65 taters, ugh!!!
I can see how a yak can wup a K-4, especially to an uncomfortable pilot.
The annoyance is a lot fly uber planes. A pilot comfortable in his uber ride can sometime bend expected physics.
We have flown these rides much more than any WWII pilots. We can exploit newly found loopholes. And we don’t have to shred our guts to do it.
We can only go by climb rate and hope our math is correct when triangulating a fight and shot.
I’m not a know-it-all doctor in real life, but I play one on a game bbs.
