The 'Great Debate' - Spitfire vs BF109

[Seadog]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Inadmissible using Farbers logic, Galland wen't on to say it was out of frustration and had no bearing on how he rated the Spitfire but of course being a human recounting a tale from the past he obviously didn't know what he was speaking about and he probably really did wan't a squadron of Spitfires.

Hmm so we can also discount Gallands assement of the 109e/Spitfire as being "...not so suitable for purely defensive purposes as the Spitfire, which, although a little slower, was much more manoeuvrable..."

Since we all know that the Spitfire was somewhat faster...