[Cuccos19]

With the 109 I never afraid off Mustangs or Thunderbolts. The Jugs fly like a bus, easy kills. The Mustangs can set into fire easily, just the engine (the low damage tolerance of the Merlin is the drawback of the Spitfires too, but fly nicely what can't be say about Mustangs). And finaly, Mustangs are not a good maneovering fighters. They are boom and zoom fighters, like most of the americans.

But I always in trouble when I try to shake a Lightning. It's stick on my 6' and won't let me go by easily. I'm sure the Lightning can lean on its wide wings without stalling, that's the secret of the Ligtning's gentle flight characteristics.

Well,I realize that you are not aware of the Jug's abilities .It's a B&Z plane,keep it at or above 5000m,you'll be safe there.And if someone tries to follow you,just drag him to high altitude and kill him slowly :twisted: .I usually fly german planes but I respect the jug,it's extremely dangerous above 5000m.

Okay. Jugs are really Boom and Zoom fighters. They are extremely fast in dive, and can outdive all of its opponets, not only Bf-109s and all of the jap fighters (except maybe J2M Jacks, but I'm not shure in that) - but the mighty FW190 radial engine series (I don't know much about Doras). But I usually make a tight turn in 109 at the last last moment when the Jug try to cacth me. In most of case it works. After the dive Jug try to get some altitude. But Jugs climb is not an impressive thing. If it has energy from the dive, it can use that. But only for a short time. Than it will ends and the Jug must rely only on the powerful but very bulky engine. Since it's not a streamlined aircraft the energy from the dive-speed useing up quickly. And that's the time to catch him!

I think F4U Corsairs are much better in all around aspects. Except that F4U has mechanical supercharger, but P-47 Thunderbolt has turbosupercharger, which is much effective, and doesn't need any user settings. Like P-38s turbosuperchargers. Just read after that, how the P-39 Airacobras had ruined by the bureaucracy when turbosupercharger was deleted.

To reply to your "just drag him to high altitude and kill him slowly" I'm not a very patient man, unfortunatelly. I have bad tactics for B&Z fighters. I always force the maneuvering dogfight with very tight and hard turns. And not only in the Ki-43-I 1st series Oscars. It works nicely in Bf-109 (I love Fridrich or Fritz serie Messerschmit most - they are light, easy on hand, acrobatic, etc drawback the light armament, but shoot like Marseilles and it will work). For Spitfires it sure will work. But the Ligthning is a real miracle. This is the fighter, where I can allow myself to loose speed. I can get it back very quickly, only in a few second of dive, or simply level flight. Very forgiving aircraft, good aerobatics with stable flight together, which are very opposite characteristics.