Italian airplane ww2.

[Babi]

Originally Posted by Silverback

I would like to see the Italian fighters handle a bit better. I mean didn't they call the MC205 the Italian Spitfire. Just a thought.

i was under the same impression, based mainly on pilots' accounts. But if you look at numbers (which can give a rough idea of turning ability) :

SpitV:
wing loading 131,5 kg/m^2
power loading 0,40 hp/kg
power loading with boost 0,50 hp/kg

M.C.202:
wing loading 174,2 kg/m^2
power loading 0,40 hp/kg

(got the data from hardball's aircraft viewer, hope its right)

it doesn't seem so unreasonable that the spit behaves better in both sustained and istantaneous turn. In this game even the 109 F2 and F4 turn better than the Folgore.

109F2
wing loading 172,9 kg/m^2
power loading 0,43 hp/kg

And add the slats to that. Again the question it's not that simple but i gives an idea. For comparison:

P40E
wing loading 177,7 kg/m^2
power loading 0,30 hp/kg

Which seems worse than the bf. but you can read noumerous accounts of p40 pilots outturning 109s in north africa. makes you wonder if the italian planes handled really that good or it was a matter of pilot.