What a crazy little talk we've got there. I'm waiting for such arguments when it will come to talk abt any Spits Mk max speed and xxlbish boost.
With many respects, if the 109E max speed was stated as 500 that is that the vast majority of planes delivered did reach that value with only a few being in the minus 5% range.
In other word, once contracted Bf (Me) had much more interest in targeting the 500 +5% to get the necessary nbr of planes out of production line accepted than saying its engineer : Ok guys the min value is that so let's cross our arm, raise our boots on the desk and let the min value be a standard.
Does it happends that a plane does not meet the contracted spec ? .... Yeah and in deep trouble is the manufacturer. Even in an all out war (I am thinking at the Me410 that was rubish in term of manufacturing standards).
SO let's be raisonable and assume without too much headaches: 95% were in 500ish and 5 % were 475+ish. Some rare birds will do more evidently.
Storm had that in mind (I am not a stat specialist) but I think that he seems to be on the right track. Gaussian is how it shld be
And by the way if the spit was in 500- range any one here with e sense of history shld understand that the 109 has to be in 500+. Just look at the racing examples made out of both those plane : Spit : 630/650 / 109 700- (not the 209 - don't mistake me)
By the way there is not a single serious history book that will give you a value significantly under 500 for the deck max speed of the 109. Why shld we hve this here ?!!!
This is boring
