[HusarDerLuft]

LOL I can't believe that after so many years of debate over this kind of silly question there's still someone wasting time over it!
It's not a matter of which plane is better, it's the pilot and his skills, together with the tactical situation, that make a difference.
The features of a plane are like a short blanket: you have to leave something uncovered. The skill of a pilot is learning these special features and use them to his advantage in combat.
A couple of years ago I introduced a good friend of mine to IL-2, we did a quick combat, he was flying a P-51D and I was flying a Cr.42!
He had moderate experience back then, while I had long experience both in the sim and in real life flying, so all I had to do was "dragging" him down to my level of fight, where the Cr.42 had an advantage (low speed high manouverability), and I shot him down. He made a serie of mistakes that brought the result, so what did I demonstrate, that a Cr.42 is better than a Mustang? Hardly.. It's skills and tactical situation, only that..

You can spend hours talking about the features of each single plane and compare them to the other, it's just theory..

In this case the difference in experience was too big, you were seasoned veteran, he was a noob - but when the pilots are equal .. the plane makes all the difference