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Originally Posted by pmeloche
The Me 262 was a jet fighter so technically the P-51 still was the best prop plane of the war, the F4U being a close second.
The FW 190 always was overshadowed by its older sibling the Bf 109. The Bf 109 was already famous when WWII broke out but it was a design that had reached its limit by 1940 with the Bf 109E version. The later F, G, and H variants were meant to improve the "Emil" variant but there was no major leapfrog in performance.
The FW 190 was already from the start a better airframe than the "Emil" variant of the Bf 109 but was always overshadowed by the reputation of the Bf 109 who was still a formidable piece of machinery albeit an aging one with little left for improvement.
If the germans had chosen to mass-produce their best designs like the americans did with the P-51 and P-47 it could have been a different ball game over the skies of Europe. Thankfully they did not.
Cheers.
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Accurate response pmeloche. And they were close to the 'Bomb'. Ain't History channel great???
P.S. Just noticed we both have 113 posts.......