I Want my 4.09 Spit FM's back.........

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by K_Freddie

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Originally Posted by winny View Post
Use of the slats to deliberatly stall the plane to escape a Spitfire seem quite comon among the German Aces from what I've read



I'd like to read this book, never seen it before

That was Hans Joachim Marseille attacking Lufberry circles in Africa not 109's vs Spitfires in the BoB.

What actually IS documented in the BoB is that the better LW pilots often flew elliptical turns in a dog fight using the slats to temporarily pull some lead and then loosing the stick again before too much speed was washed off.