Placing the Bell P39 Aircobra.

[Graham Boak]

Not QED at all. As has been pointed out several times, accuracy was not the only parameter going into the decision. If you restrict your argument to the RAF not using potentially the most accurate method, then you are probably right. Note "the most accurate": not the one and only holy scripture, with all other approaches satanic. To suggest that they had the wrong method for the job, in that theatre at that time, starting from where they did, facing what they were facing, is another matter altogether. As has been said.

Jukka: No. Acceleration is such as to overwhelm accuracy, regardless of quality of the pilot. Do you think that Rudel, to name the most famous divebomber pilot, operated without divebrakes - or could have? That they were only fitted into specialist designs for the benefit of inferior pilots? The answer is in the plural, and they bounce.