Thunderbolts and Mustangs versus the Jagdwaffe (split topic)

[Juha]

Hello Franek
P-47 vs P-51 of course You are right that better a/c made life easier. BTW, in the Dean's book there are results of a gallup taken from a small group of company test pilots and few military pilots. At least some P-38 fans deny the validity of this gallup in which P-38J/L done it poorly. I have no oppinion of its validy but among the results are
best fighter above 25 000ft: P-47D, P-51D, F4U-1...
best fighter below 25 000ft: P-51D, F4U-1D, F6F-5...

and one bit of info for You, according those graphs P-39N/Q was at 7 700lb a little bit better climber than P-47D-25 at 14 500lb up to appr. 24 000ft. This when they both used 100% normal power (1000hp at 14 000ft for N/Q and 1625hp at 6 500 - 25 000 ft for D-25), not military power.

Juha