Colin1
Senior Master Sergeant
There's an explanation in there somewhereBecause highlighting a plane's alleged performance advantage at a height where very little actual combat took place...
why do you suppose very little actual combat took place at 32,000ft? Because pilots found it disagreeable? Or because one side couldn't actually get to 32,000ft or at least not in any numbers? If you are penetrating enemy territory in large, strategically significant numbers escorting bombers capable of tremendous damage and notwithstanding this, there's still 'very little actual combat taking place' then your performance advantage isn't alleged, it's real.
The performance margin between the P-51 and its principal Luftwaffe rivals closed beneath its 'performance advantage height' of 25,000ft.
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