Thank you Keith. Your father must have been an exceptional pilot.
When confronted with pilots like him, many German fighters ended up like this:
Me 109 - D-FWME - eine fliegende Legende
(Above pics show a freshly restored ME 109 after having crashed at an air show. Pity, innit?)
Like so often, I think this Focke Wulf became rather outdated when the already fantastic Spitfire was upgraded to become the MK IX Version with the latest of the RR Merlin 60 Series engine.
That was until the first jet fighters left their marks in air combat.
One of those can also be purchased as a replica, see
Me262 Replica Test Flight Video
This replica has modern GE jet engines since the original BMW and Junkers engines had to be replaced every 25 operational hours!
So in its time the ME 262 was quite advanced. And costly, at that...