NzTyphoon,

The longitudinal stability and control characteristics of the early mark Spitfires is very well documented. It is used as an example in many college and university programs.

It is not some emotional based issue or even obscure if you understand stability and control. No amount of fan based wishing will change it. It is what it is and anybody who went to school for it can look at the measurements to tell exactly how the aircraft will behave.

Yes, it is quite obvious you don't understand it. Just as you did not understand percentage MAC, concocting a pointy tin foil hat theory and arguing for pages and pages about a non-dimensional proportion.

It is not my fault you don't care to learn about it.

Bad loosers always switch to attack the person or the persons reputation instead staying with the facts.

Yet another unsubstantiated claim; if the Spitfire's longitudinal and stability characteristics are the subject of so many college and university programs then some documented evidence from such programs would be absolutely ideal for a proposed bugtracker report. Examples and documented evidence of such college and university programs please

http://www.cambridge.org/aus/series/....asp?code=CAES

About the third book down, NzTyphoon, is the one quoted.

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http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6...shspitfire.jpg

Oh goody, one of "many" - can we see some more of the many? And well done, Crumpp has just contradicted himself - again - with his comments on the DC-3...


And here's another interesting fact; both the Typhoon and Tempest Pilot's Notes say that they were longitudinally unstable, and neither were as manœvreable as the Spitfire, while Alex Henshaw says that the so-called unstable gun platform of the Spitfire was a myth, so Crumpp can quote from as many books as he likes, there are other opinions.

NzTyphoon,

Do you need the DC-3 report from the NACA?

Nothing in the college text, NACA report, or what I have said is contradictory.

What this does show is a second-hand report on tests conducted by NACA, proving that the authors have read the same reports as presented in this, and other threads. In fact, the way Crumpp has quoted extensively from from this one book shows that most of his information on aerodynamics comes from here which can also be found (minus some pages) on googlebooks.

Nor is it an unimpeachable source, as witness the comments on the longitudinal stability of the Typhoon and Tempest, both of which have Pilot's Notes stating they were longitudinally unstable.

I don't suppose you could say which college and university programmes could you?

My Alma Mater.....Go Eagles!!!! :grin:

You know we have a great football team?

Cambridge
Naval Academy
USAF Academy
MIT
GA Tech

Read it. You might learn something.