Do you have any sheets for the turning circles of the Bf 110?
I found some wwiiaricraftperformance, but the quality is so bad I am not able to read them.
And for the Beaufighter? The power/weight ratio with boost cut out of the Beauf is way better than the 110. You also need to compare the Loading/Fuel
I've read that the spitfire had to climb with 2700 at 30min boost.
Flying with higher rpm and steep climb would have caused cooling issues, so it's limited to 5min for 6 1/4 psi 3000rpm while climbing steep and that the Spitfire would overheat on hot summer on the ground idling.
I couldn't find anything about a 109 having cooling issues on the ground, the 109 was able to cool from 94° with ~1100 rpm a hot engine after full throttle engine testing according to the manual, no mention about hot summer.
However a note from the Wing Commander flying the 109s against Spits and Hurries where the 109 was way weaker and bad performing at full throttle and that it's engine reaching 120° water, which is actually quite interesting that this 109 didn't fail on him doing these flight tests.
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...hurri-turn.pdf
Quite an evidence that the 109 can handle 120° Water during tight turn fights and climbs.
Theres a note from Headquarter Fighter Command 5 min limit is 3000 at 6 1/4 psi or more, that means that flying longer than 5 min these limits and had to be reported duo to high engine failures. Using boost cut out is another story, pilots had lots of engine failures duo to the use of boost cut out with little excuse exceeding the engine limitation already at 6 1/4 psi and 3000 rpm.
Found on spitfireperformance
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/dowding.pdf
As you see the problem is the ridiculous amount of additional boost with the boost cut out the RAF planes use (Hurry, Spit, Beauf, Blennheim).
If RAF and the German would use 30 min power settings, the german planes would not only fly faster, they also follow your claims that the 110 wasn't that bad.
Of course the 109s shouldn't use take off power everytime during flight, but it's literally not even called "emegency power" for the early german planes, its called short increased power and is ment to be used for take off, unlike the RAF planes.
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