Sorry JTD, but it's been years, decades even, since I've read some of this stuff.
I do know that the Curtiss Hawks, 75, 81, and 87 were very maneuverable aircraft. Much more so than they are portrayed in the current popular aviation culture.
And I stopped being a rivet counting chart monkey a long time ago. It just got old.
Nothing personal JTD. Life is contentious enough without instigating slag fests on internet forums.
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