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Originally Posted by K_Freddie
The outdated 'slower' machine would (should) be better turners in any case.
You just might have shot Icefire's argument down, Note that with that Russian LA5/FW190 report.. it was never mentioned that the FW could out-turn the LA5.. (the reporter might have been shot) More importantly what was left out, was that the LA5 couldn't out-turn the FW190.
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I was trying to find that report again and I wasn't able to dig it up. Have the link handy? There is that Russian patriotism thing that gets trotted out a fair bit and I suspect some of it's true but there were pilots who quite liked their lend lease aircraft. Pokryshkin spoke highly of the P-39. I guess that didn't set off enough alarm bells for his Political Officer
He quite liked the La-7 after that so maybe that equalled out somewhere in the grand scheme of things. I suspect that the Russian pilots liked their aircraft despite whatever official proclamations were in place and kept their comments largely to themselves until much later.
The interesting thing about the La-5 is that because it was initially a LaGG-3 with a new engine the aircraft went through stages of development where it was initially just a retrofit and then it became it's own model, shedding weight in the process. The early La-5 was a slower turner than the refined 1944 La-5FN (22 seconds is quoted in places... similar to FW190). In-game I suspect that the weight for the La-5 reflects the later model series while the La-5F reflects the early F model and the FN reflects a very late model FN.
That's a very long way of saying that depending on the La-5 model tested the FW190 and La-5 might have a very similar turn time. We'd have to look very closely at what they tested to see what sort of information we can glean from it.