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Focke Wulf FW190-D9
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Hawker Tempest V
Dora vs Tempest
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On a related and elementary note, manufacturer published charts and graphs, even of guaranteed performance, usually fall short of actual performance figures obtained with actual aircraft.
August 12, 1944 - In an armor cover mission at the Falaise track, Charlie Rife, 368th FG, 395th FS, takes 37mm fllak rounds to both wings. His wingman, Richard Kik, takes a 20mm round to the engine that knocks out two cylinders. Both make it back.

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I've never experienced German performance figures to be overblown at all, infact the guaranteed performance figures I've seen so far from Focke Wulf & Messerschmidt have all been very conservative and never exceeded the actual achieved performance.
Promising "der Führer" some wild performance figures and then not to deliver on them was not to take ones own life very seriously!
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