The p51 was a fast plane because of a good airfoil and low drag, not because of acceleration. Its thrust-to-weight ratio was about 0.18 hp/lb, lower than the spitfires. If the spits are out-accelerating you, that's why. Spits don't have a high top speed, at least not in sim.
The p47 has even higher wing loading than p51 so it's a bad alternative as a dogfighter. There were better American dogfighters than those two. Some of the best Russian aces preferred the p-39 airacobra to their own yak's and la's, the p-39's were lend-leased to the USSR. In Europe most of the air-to-air fighting was centered around bombing which was a moving battle, which p51 excels at, not the anchored dogfights BOP is mostly about
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12-16-2009, 04:03 AM
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