The Japanese tend to get better pilot quality at that time, which helps.
Zeros do better at getting on a tail and keeping it? as well.?
The difference was really pilot quality. An Ace gets more chances to squeeze that extra * of maneuverability?
But the F4F once the American pilots figured things out, hit hard.
Trouble?is a lot of the early Pacific is psychological. American pilots were scared of the mythic Zero. The air group commander in Guadalcanal I think first sussed out the drop in Japanese pilot quality and told his pilots to be more aggressive?
