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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon
As for the Spitfire and Hurricane "get(ting) special treatment and are modelled in optimistic conditions?" While the British fighters are badly handicapped, what with engines blowing up after just a few minutes at higher boost settings, and badly under performing in other respects? Hardly "special treatment'', but there are some who don't mind.
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Well I would hope that any adjustment of the Me109E would be coordinated with a corresponding adjustment of the Spitfire speed: So if the Me109 was raised to around 475 Km/h for the DB601A variant at 1.3 ata then I would expect the Spitfire to get approximately 283 Mph for +6.25 boost and 314 Mph for +12 boost.
BTW, doing a rough calculation for the DB601Aa for 1.35 ata would yield circa:
v=460 x (1045/910)^(1/3)= 482 Km/h
In addition, Cambers question is interesting: How many DB601Aa were there on the Channel front? Was it a mix of DB601A1 and Aa? If so what were the proportions?
Concerning which engine to model, even given a free choise, I'm not sure I would opt for the DB601Aa: If the Spitfire uses +12 boost the 109E is outclassed down low either with the DB601A1 or Aa. On the other hand the DB601A1 with "Neue Lader" has superior altitude performance while the Aa is outclassed on both accounts. So why give up the altitude advantage for a mere 7 Km/h more on the deck when the result is still far below the 505 Km/h the Spitfire will do on +12 boost?