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Ups, sorry! I didn't read carefully. I thought he's got some problem to fly that bird. I can climb almost more than 45degrees(!) steadily! Very forgiving aircraft (and one of the most beautiful, imho), only you must pay attention about the compressibility. That's all drawback of the Lightning, I think. For example the Fw190's cooked if it tries to outmaneuver me if I'm in a Lightning. And I don't use always the flaps... :wink: The other aircraft what I can fly so easily is the Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar), but only the 1st series, with large wingspan. But they are rather sport planes, than true fighters...

I am not worried about these issues nor the p-38 at all. I don't care which plane this can be done with. Any plane is fine.

You would need to read the book to fully understand. From the book it seems that many pilots thought they could fly better than they actually could, at least as far as the author defines good flying which would seem to include to never ever get into an unintentional stall amongst many many other points.