IL:2 Focke Wulf Fw190A3 vs Spitfire MkVB 

At no point could a 190 out turn any varient of spitfire in a horizontal turn or Hurricane. So while it's safe to say they were faster it is not accurate to say superior in all aspects. Such is the leap frogging in performance as new variants arrived

@@MAYDAYSIMULATIONS You can turn all day but that doesn't do you much good when you can't dictate when you enter or stop a fight. You just make life more difficult for the dude who makes as many passes at you as he pleases until he doesn't feel like it anymore or he gets you. The zero could out turn any fighter it faced in the horizontal but that didn't do it much good in the long run, most biplanes could too. On the other side the ME262 couldn't turn very well at all and it still was a game changer, even against fighters. Energy is king. All respects is definitely technically wrong, but an F-4 phantom wouldn't turn inside a spitfire and I would still say "in all respects" as a practical thing.

@@TR_P This may makes sense in dcs or il2 where everything is condesed massively in time and distance and everyone always running engines at max allowable settings but that is not real life. Pilots couldn't run their engines hot as snot endlessly. Fuel was always a factor in making it home, and the performance delta on period aircraft like a spit 5 and 190a3 at max throttle was like 10 or 20 mph at most......and max powers had very short 1 to 5 min limitations....point being these engagements were short...running someone down when your only marginally faster takes miles, time and gas....So while a high cruise speed is deadly for getting the jump on bandits and was used to deadly effect, if a merged bandit Flys away from you it'll be 20 miles before you catch him. And youll need your engine pegged and generally heading away from home to do it. I'm not sure what impact 262s had on fighters. Too few. Other than sneak attacks...they couldn't turn and had no gas.

​@@MAYDAYSIMULATIONS You're too high on turn rate. Both aviation historians and the high loss rates among RAF fighters until the Mk. IX regained parity disagree with your take. If your opponent is (significanly, not just "20 mph at most") faster in cruise, max, acceleration, roll, climb, and dive, your turn rate doesn't help you. The Spitfire was an exceptionally well-designed plane. But from mid-1941 to 1942, the "Fw-190 challenge" was real. I recommend "The Spitfire Story: Revised second edition" by Alfred Price.

@@DevSolar literally what I said about cruise speed 1 comment up.

That would be ideal actually... but would need a custom server as you say

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150 octane was more limited in use as it had its own challenges. Fouling plugs ect..... For early escort fighters 130 was more common 1943-44 but as far as allied forces operating "in" France I believe 100 octane is all that was provided. Via ships I'm sure and a pretty nutty network of pipes all the way across the channel after June 44. This also provided fuel for land based vehicles....tanks, trucks, ect.

@@MAYDAYSIMULATIONS nope! The spitfire mark 1 used 100 in time for Battle of Britain dude go read a book! There so many of you that have no clue it’s sad

@@garyseeseverything8615 Correct. The spit 1. But thats what i was saying and that doesnt address the question of 150 octane....but the 100 octane came at the Battle of Britain. I think you would be underwhelmed by the performance gains of 150 octane over 130 and maybe 130 over 100 Spit 9's were running 18lbs and mustangs 65+ inches wep on 100 octane. And with the supercharging systems the spitfires and p51's used unless they were at an optimum altitude the additional manifold pressure was wasted by supercharger drive inefficiencies. Germans did have lower octane but I would say they had bigger issues with quality and availability than with octane as they used mw-50 to gain Ata at low level and nos systems to improve high altitude performance. The nos....A very closely guarded secret for some time. That is all dude

@@MAYDAYSIMULATIONS i take back what I said and you sir are a champ of history!

that is the stock skin that defaults for this aircraft

At medium to low altitude you have a chance. At high altitude it's goodnight nurse....

@@BlueMax109 I remember for a while the 190 was the fastest thing on the deck in a straight line... I guess you could extend away .

@@genuinsanity This video I made deals with exactly that... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uRiPXyHA23Q.html

@@BlueMax109 Thanks ! I'm a vintage aircraft enthusiast ! Got it !