You don't have much choice when it comes to british fighters, Spitfire, Hurricane or Typhoon . All of them are great IMO.
If you are in a dogfight with more than one enemy aircraft, your advantage is almost totally negated. Further you can fire like 7-8 bursts with your cannons on the Spitfire before you have to reload. That´s very annoying.
IMO If you're in a dogfight with more than one enemy, you already failed
They are very agile and easy to aim, so you don't waste so many shots
. Usually is enough to shoot down 2-3 planes, go around, reload and find some more victims. Of course asking me about airplanes is quite pointless cause I find most of airplanes nice (apart from obviously bad ones), I even like to use B-25 as a fighter
Not to mention they jam fast and they have Horrible horrible survivability
American planes suck even more
You just have to not get hit thats all
. British tree itself is quite lacking, needs Hurricane with 4x Hispano and 2x 40mm cannon.
About the American: I agree on that, Apart from Cobras most of them are utter shite. Mostly because of sucky .50 cals.