Leading Edge Slats on the Me-109

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Originally Posted by Crumpp

Really?

Wow, you should tell the engineering departments of every major university because they are teaching the wrong information.

Maybe you should tell one of the pioneers of stability and control engineering. A British engineer who strived during the war and after to get the RAE on a defined standard after his experience working with the NACA. What is even more funny is the fact stick force per G, which Gates developed, was adopted by the NACA as part of the 1942 standard!

The United States NACA adopted a British engineers ideas and made them standard long before the British RAE listened to their own guy! That was the basis of his invitation to come to the United States and observe the stability and control developments at the NACA.

Here is the first page of the proposed standards for longitudinal stability, in fact.

I think World War II in Europe ended in May 1945. Pretty sure September 1947 is after the conflict was over....

Theres standards and then theres standardisation, you can have standards without standardisation, it simply means there was not a universally applied standard, I asure you the British aircraft industry was not a free-for all where they let the tea ladies get in on the act because it 'looked pretty', there were people who were very aware of what stability and control was within the RAE.
I am not arguing a point about whether a universal standard was adopted, I'm arguing against your bizarre claims the British had 'no' standards and therefore the RAE reports on the 109 may as well have been performed by monkeys.....until of course you want to 'cherry pick' anything positive.