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Was Dornier's Do 335 considered the fastest piston twin in production (from a production of what--maybe a dozen?)?
Others might beg to differ, but I would say that Do.335 never reached full production. Most if not all of the circa 25 aircraft built would count as prototypes and pre-production; if some were to be counted as "production" they were so few that the type could not be considered a major enough design for comparisons being made here. None were ever used offensively in combat, though a few were seen in flight by Allied aircraft.
For the air-kills category, does anybody have thoughts on the comparative kills between the Mosquitos and Me.110? I would guess that the Me.110 saw more offensive air-to-air combat, and achieved more kills. The Mossie as an air-to-air fighter was primarily used as a night-fighter against other night-fighters, and so had relatively few prey, while Me.110 had much more numerous bombers to shoot at.
The Me.110 also saw a lot of use early in the war, while the Mosquito was pretty much a late-war fighter. In one-on-one combat I would much rather be in the Mossie, but they really belong to different generations and so direct comparison is not really fair to the Me.110, which for all its deficiencies vis-a-vis single engine aircraft, was probably the best - surely the most used - twin-engine fighter of its time. It was also the first twin-engine night fighter to see major use and teh design of all subsequent night-fighters benefitted from study of the Me.110.
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