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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha
Interestingly from Two Seconds to Kill
Bader mentions the Spit wing "folding up",
I had also read about this when over stressing the aircraft due to the pilots having to be careful with the Spits in hard manoeuvres as they were able to go past the safe limits due to the control authority being very light on the stick less than 10lbs where as the Bf109 was more than 20lbs.
I hope someone will put those figures right for me but I'm going from memory.
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Dodge, wasn't that the part where Bader and Stanford-Tuck were talking about a German ace who had managed to tear off a wing or 2 and the story had got around the German squadrons causing their pilots to pull out of divers early?