Your efforts Crump are becoming tiresome, and frankly your arguments about the spitfires 'Dangerous Instability' are verging on laughable. Every post that you put up serves only to advertise your bigotry and deepen your alienation of the rest of the forum.
I'll leave on this;
1) A pitch unstable aircraft is not pleasent to fly; it tightens in turns and does not settle automatically from a disturbed path. IT is VERY hard work. EVERY pilot who has flown a Spitfire, particularly those who have flown in combat say time and again the similar thing; words like DELIGHTFUL, EASY and WONDERFUL are repeatedly used to describe the handling and time and again they use the analogy that you didn't get into a Spitfire YOU PUT IT ON. Not to labour the point, but how on earth is there any correlation between these two factors? Cos apparently according to you they co-exist in the same airframe.
In case you missed it the first time, I'll write it again: Spitfires stability was MARGINAL. That does NOT make it UNSTABLE. You, with your self proclaimed expertise on aerodynamics should know this.
2) This bob weight stuff you seem hung up on is a poor argument; I have already related as to how it only affected Mk.V variants - thats Mark Five by the way; introduced many months after the Mk I & II in game - and was a result of increasing amounts of ancilliary equipment that was loaded into these a/c being poorly loaded at squadron level. But yet AGAIN you seem to have missed or ignored someones counter argument when it doesn't fit your model. So, yet AGAIN I'll direct you to Jeffrey Quill's excellent book on the subject. But somehow I get the feeling you won't read it; might not fall into line with some of your 'well founded' opinions.
Crump, your only working to serve your increasing reputation as a stuck up opinionated blowhard. One of these days you're gonna post something ace, a real piece of pukka gen as the old saying goes, and know one round here's gonna give a monkeys cos your credibility is vanishing with every cherry picked argument you present. But please, if you wish to continue shooting yourself in the foot......
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