The USA planes are the hardest to fly for me, slow to turn and when you do it takes forever to get your aim sight lined up, think the only way around this is to get your crew as experienced as possible, a couple of us were talking last week and thought that the crew ranking points could only be used maybe on one plane but i messed about yesterday and discovered that every plane has it's own ranking points which they earn themselves and can be spent on that plane, yes some of us might already know this but i just like to play rather then look at rules so i missed it up until now, but i spent a shitload of points on my crews yesterday especially the Russian Aircobra (a monster of a plane best in game so far for me) it has a knock on effect because the more points you spend on your crew should in theory make you and your planes perform better which enables you to earn even more crew experience points, so far i have been trying all countries planes in nearly equal amounts, at a personal level i am Level 13, as for country level i am level 8 Britain Level 7 Russian Level 7 German Level 6 Japan and Level 6 USA, but overall so far i think the Russian planes give best value.