The 'Great Debate' - Spitfire vs BF109

[NZtyphoon]

Originally Posted by Crumpp

http://www.cambridge.org/aus/series/....asp?code=CAES

About the third book down, NzTyphoon, is the one quoted.

Oh goody, one of "many" - can we see some more of the many? And well done, Crumpp has just contradicted himself - again - with his comments on the DC-3...

Originally Posted by Crumpp

The DC-3 was unstable in cruise flight only at it's most rearward CG limit. That limit was moved forward.

Originally Posted by Crumpp

Yes, only at the rearward CG limit was the aircraft unstable and only below 120IAS. Above 160IAS, and trimmed out at the rearward CG limit, it was "almost neutral".

And here's another interesting fact; both the Typhoon and Tempest Pilot's Notes say that they were longitudinally unstable, and neither were as manœvreable as the Spitfire, while Alex Henshaw says that the so-called unstable gun platform of the Spitfire was a myth, so Crumpp can quote from as many books as he likes, there are other opinions.

[Crumpp]

NzTyphoon,

Do you need the DC-3 report from the NACA?

Nothing in the college text, NACA report, or what I have said is contradictory.