I Want my 4.09 Spit FM's back.........

[Erkki]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

Grow up. If you have some relevant information to post, let's see it. I was replying to a post suggesting the Spit took forever to pick up speed, and I can't see evidence of that. So you think the wwiiperformance site it biased towards allied planes - what evidence do you have of that? The data they quote in from serious militarty testing, not from propaganda. But anyway, you have some other site with good research, I'd be interested to see that too.

Believing that site, nothing made by the Germans could ever compete with anything British or American. Funny enough, there are very little graphs of early war aircraft. In charts comparing axis vs. allied, there are also no conditions of tests mentioned.

You get better idea of relative performance by reading a good book or 2 of each plane and how they actually met in combat, and compare factory tests(and their conditions), not tests done on half broken stressed airframes that ran an overdue engine with a wooden prop, and of results' would then be used in propaganda and/or post-war publications. Applying to both/all sides, not just Allies.

I think the D9 was an excellent fighter. If you have some good data on it's performance vs a late war Spit that would make interesting reading. Particularly if there were enough D9s in the air to make a difference to the war, becuase if not, there's very little reason for the allies to need to compete with it.

D-9 was the single most produced model of the Fw 190.