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Originally Posted by majorfailure
IIRC there were quite a few pilots that did not like the P-51 better than the P-40 or P-39. And didn't 56th FG willingly fly P-47 because they liked them more than the P-51?
And didn't -I think- Bud Anderson state that the P-51 required trim adjustment all through the whole flight?
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Bud Anderson wrote about constant trimming during battle as something you just automatically do as a war pilot.
What happened to the IL-2 P-51 was that a small group of 'Stang' fanboys gathered up historic documents to push hard for lighter stick forces and that's what they, errrr, we got, an easier to teeter teeter-totter.
The P-51 was singled out and the change forced by fanboys. I wonder if anyone from that group is still around?