A newbies impression of the 109 and spit

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I note here that one of the sources listed is;
1 - Quoted from Page 61 - Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces - 'Spitfire Mk.I/II Aces' by Dr. Alfred Price.
ISBN 84-8372-207-0

Sic - it is on page 90, so not even that is right. Dr Price goes on to state

Interestingly the Luftwaffe test centre at Rechlin also carried out comparative fighting trials between Bf 109s and a captured Bf 109....The two sets of trials showed that the 'home team' possessed the superior fighter type. Given the naivety with which the trials were conducted any other finding would probably have been regarded as 'politically incorrect'....the Mark I and Mark II Spitfires were roughly equal to the Bf 109 in capability. In the fleeting air combats that were the norm, tactical initiative counted for more than the relatively small performance differences that existed between the opposing fighter types.