Clearly someting is amiss here.
Hawk 81s had a roll rate of 135 degrees per second at 360mph IAS.
The Hawk 87s (test done on P40F) were down to 95.
Data from Amercia's Hundred Thousand by Francis H. Dean.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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