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Originally Posted by zapatista
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the spitfires:
- where more agile, had better roll rate and tighter turning circles then 109's.
- but there carburetors would cut out on a sudden dive/nose-down, and couldnt fly inverted without starving their carburators of fuel, similar problems existed in other -ve G maneuvers...<snip>
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Negaive G effects on engine performance was somewhat overcome by early 1941 with the retrofitting of spitfires with
Miss Shilling's orifice.