Those 130 accidents also don't include those losses, where after a few insignificant machine gun hits, or even only tracers around the cockpit, the pilot overreacted and went in with his ride because of over-g or a spin, which shurely has happened a few times.
It shurely then was accounted under losses because of enemy action.
There were quite a lot Spitfires lost during the BoB and not all had been shot to pieces.
And glider, nobody has said anything about the Spitfire being weak!!!
Only that the Spitfire controls made it relatively easy to reach the structural limits.
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Last edited by robtek; 08-02-2012 at 06:27 PM.
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