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Originally Posted by scottmandue View Post
My dad trained on P-47's

He told the story that p-38's were training nearby... at times they would see each other in the sky and have impromptu dog fights.
If these P-38's were the later P-38L's with the dive flaps ailerons it would be no contest. However, in the video posted the compression issues in a dive were so bad that at 300 mph in a 15 degree dive one could lose control it was claimed.

P-47 could dive like crazy, P-38 could climb like crazy. It would be an interesting match up.
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