Is Spitfire relly superior to FW-190? (1 Viewer)

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cheddar cheese said:
It could easily outclimb and out dive it. Turning with it wasnt too easy, but there are reports the Richard Bong managed to turn with them.
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He actually would throttle back the engine on the inside of the turn and add more power on the outboard engine. This is more difficult than it sounds. If you get uncoordinated on the controls or on the throttles you spin, if you're low, you spin and die!
 
it also took forever to go from cruise configuration to combat configuration...........

and CC, i think you're problem is that the new FW, is just that, because it's new, if it looked aged i bet you wouldn't tell a difference.........
 
if you've ust been bounced from behind diving is unlikely to be your first course of action, think about it, there's someone behind you shooting at you, do you try and turn to get into a position where you can shoot back, or put the stick straight forward and loose all your altitude??
 
you assume the other man had followed you, and do you really think, that after you have, on instinct , dived after being bounced, you'd be able to switch to combat configuration whilst under severe G forces?? wouldn't you be using all your effort to concentrate on perhaps pulling out of your dive?? and you'd loose allot of speed again during the climb back up to meet your oponent, where you're easy prey again, what are you gonna do to get your speed up again?? dive??
 
dive mildy in a spiral. The power will easily build the speed up. Besides, if you are experienced in a P-38 then switching to combat configuration should be like second nature, and not take that long.
 
Well it was fairly easy to fly if you know how. But going from a simple single engined trainer to a big, powerful twin engined with an unorthodox twin boom layout isnt the most moderated step-up ever.
 
yes however that should to be considdered in the design, if a plane's hard to fly that's the plane's fault, it's not to do with the level of training..............
 
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