>Take off from runway
>Zooming through the skies at a blistering 200km/h
>Boutta ZOOM and BOOM some Japs
>Spend thirty-seven minutes climbing at 100m per minute with my superior American-made engine
>Spend the next hour flying towards the battlefield to support my allies
>Finally spot my first enemy
>They're already higher than I am. Obviously cheaters.
>Decide to attack another plane below me instead
>Dive towards them at a blistering 300km/h (my plane will literally explode if I go any faster)
>Empty entire magazine. Two hits
>They turn two degrees, completely evading me
>Keep ZOOMING away at maximum speed so they can't catch me, preparing for next run
>They outrun me and shoot off my right wing any way
>Barely escape with my life
>Spend the next seventeen minutes climbing to a staggering 1200m
>Engine explodes from running too long (being too AWESOME and AMERICAN)
>Crash land at airfield
>Japanese biplane destroys me while flawlessly evading AAA
>#1 on my team
All in a days work for THE USA.

I don't regret going for the P-40/P-51 at all.