Prefer the ME109 or FW190 either one. Not only did they have FI but they were the first to have variable pitch props which helped them also. Also the ME would spank the P51 at higher altitudes. Times have changed so the choice now would have to be a F15 unless I could get the Raptor!! I have German heratige but would always fight for THIS country. THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE MARINES!!!!
Its still going on.......Fuel injection or a Carb for forced induction?
The German fighter planes were good in a dive with fuel injection and were fast for a moment until they ran out of laughing gas
The Brits and the Americans were Centrifugal super charging with carbs.....spraying the hell out of the engine with water and alcohol.
The P51 Mustang/Spitfires were faster and did not work in a good dive because the carbs flooded until Ms Tilly Shilling came along and fixed it for 10 cents......
This carb blow thru fuel injection /NoS deal is debated everyday on forums.......looks like nothing is new?
Funny you mention the ME 262, they weren't all that great but since the technology was brand new, if the war had lasted longer there is no telling what would have developed. My dad met the guy that flew the one back that is now in the Smithsonion Air and Space Museum. It was from a captured airfield if memory serves me right. I could spend a day telling of the people that were somebody in WWII that my dad has gotten to talk to and laugh with. Was a great thing growing up.
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