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Originally Posted by Triggaaar
I read the 190 pdf when you posted it and it doesn't back up your point at all. The 190 was a great fighter, my favourite looking WWII aircraft, and it was superior to the Spit Mk V, we all know that. But the Spit mkV was out before the 190, and as soon as the RAF met the 190 in the air they stuck a bigger engine in the Spit (giving the mk IX) which was immediately superior to the 190.
According to http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...0/fw190a5.html
the mk IX (1942) was as fast as the 190 A5 (1943), and easily outclimbed and out manouevered it (despite the 190s superior roll rate).
So your evidence of the Spitfire taking forever to build up speed, is a pdf that says nothing of the sort.
As with the 109, the 190 had other things going for it, like its great roll rate, impressive firepower, good dive speed etc. If you were at altitude in a 190, this meant you had a good chance of rolling and diving away when in trouble.
Later versions of the 190 continued to get faster, but the pdf you linked to doesn't show direct comparison with the Spitfire ( he says the D9 was one of his favourites, along with the Spit XIV, P51D IV etc), but instead points out that the Germans had a shortage of pilots and fuel. |
1.- LOL,spitfire ix only had advantage over 7600 meters, where the bmw engine lose performance, below that altitude, the fw190 had the same climb performance, could accelerated much more than the spitfire ix and was a bit more fast.
Www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org rates are very selective when it comes to performance tables, they are pro allies and love airplanes like spitsfires and mustangs, so I believe nothing of what they publish, it is best to book information research rather than a couple of stupid that they think is right.
Quoted from a book: Comparasion fligths between an fw190 a-3 and a spitfire ix HF showd the fw190 to have a minor advantaje between 600 and 5500 meters; from about 7600 meters upward the spitfire was faster. The climb rate for both machines was equal to about 7600 meters. At that point the fw190 began lagging considerably behind the spitfire. Diving and turning were the same as for the spitfire VB comparasion.
Kurt Tank Focke-Wulfs Designer and Test Pilot
As we could see both machines are totally equaled. We are a talking about only a fw 190 a3, not late machines, who had an increased performance.
2.-Fw190 d-9 inmediatly was a succes becouse, at military power could reach 686 km/h and for ten minutes could reach the maximun top speed with mw50 increasing the 1776hp to 2240 hp, the top speed was 730km/h, acceleration and impressive flight characteristics were.