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According to John H. Morrow Jr., the best english language historian on the WW1 German air force, mentions in an article on the German aircraft industry in WW1 that in 1915 Benz offered the Prussian War Ministry a 240hp engine, but declined in favor of keeping development below 150hp engines so as to not disrupt production; instead the best German engine was 185hp in 1918 for the Fokker D7 fighter, the best fighter of WW1 and the reason for the late war slaughter of Allied pilots right before it ended: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_D.VII
So hypothetically speaking if the inspectorate had accepted the engine in 1915, giving them a major power boost that year (they didn't get to 240hp IOTL until 1918 because of this decision), but also allowing them to develop it further (in WW1 engine development took 8-12 months), so that by the end of the war they had engines that could compete with the 300-400hp allied engines, what does this mean for the war in the air during the Great War?
Would this prevent the Germans from losing the technological edge and maintain control over their airspace thanks to maintaining a qualitative edge in the face of Allied quantity?