A&AEE has the Hurricane II losing 7 mph and 2,800 ft in full-throttle height when tropicalized.
These were two different aircraft, so not a perfect comparison. Also, the tropicalized aircraft was a IIa vs. the normal IIb tested, so the tropical conversion is probably a 9-8 mph loss.
I'm not...
It's possible that ACM Peirce wasn't quite buying what AVM Williams was saying and made moves for Spitfires right away.
From A Critical Analysis of the Royal Air Force Air Superiority Campaign in India, Burma and Malaya, 1941-1945 - Peter Norman Preston-Hough
Richey submitted his report to...
Why did Richey feel the need to address this in his memo (and received pushback on this very point) if the RAF unit leaders were fighting the Japanese fighters properly?
Plenty of anecdotes on this, but I find the report from the Air Corps Material Division succinct:
P-40E vs. Hurricane:
The Hurricane can easily turn inside the P-40E and was able to continue turning after the P-40E had stalled. With the P-40E on the tail of the Hurricane it was possible for the...
See page 88 of Shores' Bloody Shambles volume 3. They're well into 1943 and it seems like the 'boom and zoom' tactics proposed by Paul Richey aren't received too well by the higher ups.
My feeling is that because the Hurricane was a very good 'turn-fighter' against most fighters, there was some...
Would you include proper tactics in that category of 'similar conditions'? If we're judging the two machines in that time and space it really seems the P-40 was used properly (more often, at least) vs. the Ki43 than the Hurricane was.
To this point, in the conclusions of Army Operational Research Group - Report No. 259 - Technical Review of AA Defences Against Flying Bombs;
The results achieved could never have been obtained without T98 fuzes. But what is important, and what is inclined to be overlooked, is that the T98 fuze...
Not exactly what you're after and you might have it already, but I have:
Investigation of Tail Buffeting Conditions on Lockheed P.38 Airplane
including Appendix I - Investigation of Dive Characteristics of the YP-38 Airplane
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Report No. 2414 February 1942
and...