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Originally Posted by Osprey
It is hilarious. I was online on Sunday and it was about 20 vs 20. 14, yes 14, of the 109's were E4's and 4 were E3's. Only 2 E1's. Funny, I don't remember seeing any historical accuracy complaints about that.
For the record I have not read of one incident from WW2 where the 109 could hang on 45 degrees from CO-e and watch the Spitfire fall away helplessly. In actual fact the opposite is more likely true given that the standard escape for a Spitfire was a steep climbing turn.
I trust therefore that we won't hear any complaints when you can no longer use this tactic.
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Though I dont think the "exploit" in vogue at the moment is historically accurate there was concern at the time about the 109E and F's ability to Climb at a steeper angle than the Spitfire as AVIA 6/13805 shows:
Pg 4 ..... Conclusion
There are a Total of 7 pages in the report .. the others are mainly Maths and graphs.