Thread: A newbies impression of the 109 and spit
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Old 05-05-2012, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by 6S.Manu View Post
You know that this matter can't be resolved right, do you?

not violent: there is no meter for the stall to be "violent/not violent".
unusual amount: is it possible to quantify the usual one? And usual compared to?
many flight conditions: which ones?
party stlled: again... no numbers.

If we want the real numbers we have to rent a spitfire, install on it all the modern testing stuff and run it.

I've never loved much the 109 while I've always hated the Oleg's Spitfire (but I love the real one since I was a kid): anyway I've never trusted the myth of the elliptical wings because of these planes fly against the physic laws compared to all the other ww2 planes.
The numbers and graphs start on page 25 of the NACA report on the Spitfire Va flight characteristics - which can be downloaded and viewed in its entirety, as can the NACA report on the Spitfire Va stall. Testing a real one would be interesting - Duxford anyone?