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(1) 10000 fett to 3000 feet, starting at 250 m.p.h., diving at angle of 65 degree with constant throttle setting. The FW-190 pulled away rapidly at the beginning but the P-47 passed it at 3000 ft with a much greater speed and had a decidedly better angle of pull out.
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Okay, I guess it is just a words mix up. Look at the underline bold above. You posted it from the test record. It says 190 was quicker off the line. This is from the test record. You reasoned it out. I agreed. Then you said this:
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It's dive acceleration not dive limit made P47 succesful in history.
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which contradicts the test observation we have been talking about. So, imho, I don't think it's p47 acceleration abilities in a dive that gave it the name 'ThunderBolt'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder It is the fact that it had a dive limit capability like no other prop plane at that time, near the sound barrier. It took time for p47 to catch up and pass the 190.
It was not the quickest. It was the fastest. So, I don't think you can say dive acceleration was it's leading attribute in history. There's nothing to argue here. I think we just got a word mix up.
The wings obviously did not fall off the 190 in that test. So, I guess we can assume that at that dive angle, starting altitude, starting speed...etc, that the 190 stayed within the dive limits. Probably a vertical dive angle is a different story and the wings fall off.