Good point!

Many threads deserve an epic poem,
Very few get one.
Thank you IvanK.

IvanK that was epic! :grin:

I can look at your graphs all day, it doesn't change the fact that the same report from NACA gives avery different picture to yours, next time quote me in context, I was talking about the apparent need to push the stick forward in the turn, I had no problem accepting the stick 'travel'......I said I assumed nobody was 'making it up'.
Like I said to Doggles, if there was a case where the Spit needed to have the stick 'pushed' in the turn it would have been subject to when the CoG was in the unstable region, and this would have been a temporary condition subject to fuel burn.

Does anybody have a good Spitfire weight and balance schedule? I just can't find one.

+1 - Brilliant!

+1

Great way to start the day. :)

bongo, 'Spitfire: The History' has some, but not for the MkI.

You seem to forget that there is a very distinct difference between slow speed stall behavior, which is desirable, and high speed stall behaviour, which might result in a flick roll and is undesirable.

You just mix the resulting explanations as you like.

That is the case.

Does not matter what the facts or that all of this is definable unlike anecodotes.

The bugtracker post is almost finished. I will submit it in the next day or so.

Well so far, you all have been quoting a different report on a different subject.

It does not make any sense but I guess it keeps you happy and feeling like you are contributing.