That's my experience taking a hop in a B-25 a few years ago...
She felt pretty spritely with no bombs, guns, crew with full gear/parachutes/sidearms, and with the very heavy tube radio equipment replaced by modern solid state gear. And this was on the current 100 Octane Low Lead Avgas that limits maximum manifold pressure. (They did run it up to 41" on takeoff though...).
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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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