I suppose that depends on what aspects of these aircraft you are comparing and what you hope to prove or disprove from your research. A straight comparison of ‘performance’ figures will tell you nothing because those figures will have no meaning when taken out of context of the overall Battle-of-Britain.
Was the Bf109E better than the Hurricane? Maybe on paper ‘performance’ it was but it wasn’t ‘better enough’ because there were more Hurricanes (and Spitfires) and Britain was building them faster than the Luftwaffe could shoot them down (and faster than Germany could produce the Bf109E). And it doesn’t end there, you have to consider the pilots, their experience and the training of replacements that flew the fighters (more important than the aircraft themselves), the strategy and tactics used by both sides, the influence of radar and radio ground control, and the effect of the wider war that probably had a greater influence on the outcome of the battle than anything else.
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