However, United States Department of War analysts rejected it as "arrant nonsense" and concluded the performance attributed to the Zero was an aerodynamic impossibility.
Namun, analis-analis dari Departemen Perang Amerika Serikat membantahnya sebagai "sama sekali omong kosong", dan menyimpulkan bahwa superioritas kinerja Zero disebabkan kemustahilan aerodinamika.