Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by Fenrir

These characteristics you describe are NOT representative of all Spitfires. Therefore they should NOT be in game. Read again my post on stability. It affected *some* - and it seems I need to remind some people here that does not mean all - Mk V aircraft. A Mk V is NOT a Mk I, or Mk II.

All I can suggest is that you guys go away and read the books I've read, go further make even more research and come back and make an informed opinion then. Please for pity's sake do not take the one single example of an agenda driven poster as gospel.

The NACA test discovered what they discovered - I can't argue with their findings, FOR ONE PARTICULAR AIRCRAFT. However I cannot agree that these are representative of the breed. And as for relevance, well, I've said it already. A Mk V is not a Mk I.

Did RAE and NACA test the same aircraft ? Because so far we can see they draw the same conclusions.

And oh nasty they are, they even gave some recommendations in the handbook. I guess that they wanted to wage a war 70 years latter on a dark corner of the internet