Dragontech64
Airman
Im saying the P-80, it just has more and better dogfighting qualities. Better roll rate, climb, speed, turning radius. More reliable engines with better metalurgy, probably could accelerate a lot better too. The Jumos had to be throttled up fairly slowly or a flameout would occur. Ive never read of this being a problem with the J33!!
Plus 6 .50 Brownings can throw out a lot of lead faster than the MK108's.
In a Flying magazine article I read circa 1988 there was a review of flying the T-33 which stated that the J-33 needed slow throttle action as well, however I wonder if it was any better or worse in that regard than the engines in the Me-262. This was an inherint design limitation of centrifugal flow jet enjines that later, axial flow engines avoid.
For what is worth on teh gun angle, I'm afraid I don't have the knowledge of the different variations on the 50 cal, but I do know that several Me-262's fell to Mustangs using this size and number of guns. Can the reverse be said? True, the large round the Me-262 used would be deadly if it hit something, hence it's use against bombers. As far as I can tell all of Germanys fighters that were for Air Superiority, such as the Me-109 and FW-190 had rapid firing small caliber weapons.