Anyone here ever seen a pattern plane do a Cobra Role? That’s aerobatic, tongue in cheek, its all straight lines, axial roles, and 20 degree pulls. Maneuvering is part what the planes capabilities are and part the pilots ability to string these capabilities into the correct sequence to arrive at the correct location for a firing solution.

What does that mean? That means that early German planes were flown to their absolute max. because their pilots were trained very well. Adversely our pilots did not have any real world combat experience at the beginning of the war so a lot of our planes were under flown. Of course this reversed by war’s end.

Also the type of fight an aircraft is involved in.

Which plane do you want to take on bombers with one on one?
P-51 or Jug

which plane do you want in a one on one dog fight?
P-51 or Jug

Joe

ps great question ram-bro