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Best bit of common sense I have seen on this thread for a long time. Well said
100% accurate?
Some sources give the weight difference closer to 675kg.
quoted in Lorant "Le Fw 190"
MTOW 3,200 kg vs 4,700 kgs for the A-8
If MTOW is maximum take off weight does that mean max clean or max with under wing/ fuselage stores which is not a fair comparison to a an A-1 or A-2 which, as far as I know, didn't carry anything external.
....not a fair comparison? ..all I'm demonstrating - as per the review that you found so ridiculous - is that weight difference between early and late Fw 190 variants on what was basically the same engine- for argument's sake - could be as high as 2,000 kg, give or take a few hundred....and Rodeike in his Jagdflugzeug 190 book quotes the A-8/R2 Sturmjäger at 4,974 kg Fluggewicht (inc Sturm armour of 200 kgs, cannon another 100 etc etc and full belly tank ..) ..all told that's rather closer to 2,000 kg difference than 675 kg....
Here is the order I would rate these fighters:
#1 FW190 if I was Luftwaffe pilot who flew the FW190.
#1 Spitfire if I was an RAF pilot who flew the Spitfire.
#1 P51 if I was a USAAF pilot who flew the P51.
All the best,
Crumpp
Gents,
Another excellent thread! Having flown the Eagle for a long time this conversation struck a very familiar cord.
Biff
"You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before or any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and the men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it's a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be."
Ernest Hemingway
August, 1944