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Originally Posted by ahafan
but stress might the Ta 152 came faster in service along with the 262 jet would the outcome been differn't?
MY FAVE PLANE WAS THE D9s-Ta 152 Me 109 K the K was 460 mph? Ta 152 480 mph-D9 same as P51s 440 mph and a good match.
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If you read first hand accounts of combat, you hardly ever see a case where a pilot reports achieving anything like the published top speed of his aircraft in level flight. You even read accounts where the faster aircraft (on paper) cannot catch the slower one (on paper). Pilots also write of how one Spitfire (for example) was better than another of the same specification — squadrons often had better and worse machines in their ranks.