This is rather academic, but I wonder: What feature should more important/useful on a fighter's performance against another fighter, firepower aside:
Max. speed
Rate of climb
Diving speed/acceleration
level acceleration
maximum height
turning ability
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Yes, syscom3! This P47 group was attached to USAF, as the 350th fighter group, called 'The Sjamboks" (a sort of african whip made of hippo hide). It's logo was an angry ostrich (very angry, showing teeth(!!!) in it's grin) standing on clouds and shooting a handgun. It's commander was - (is, he...
HWEW! By the info I gathered up to now, it definitly seems that KI 61s are causing more damage these days than they did in WWII!
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PS. I'm an old fart born in 1947. Back in those fifties, we learned foreign languages at school, and it was not unuseful at all. My mother...
I am curious about this Japanese fighter. Aside being the only one with an on-line engine, it showed some properties uncommon to other japanese fighters, such as outdiving his USA opponents ( or so says Greg. Boyington in his book "Baa, baa, Black Sheep). It's climbing rate or max speed were not...