Pilots can be mistaken. You're probably one of those guys that reads an account saying "My spitfire turned inside the 109" without any info as to speed, altitude, or even which spitfire or which 109, and then decides that ALL spitfires must out-turn ALL 109s under ALL conditions.
That's the problem with blindly following pilot accounts.
It's not interweb heroics, it's mathematics. Math doesn't change from the 1940s to today. Memories given in post-war interviews do change.
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