Why do Spitfires turn better than Hurricanes?!

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by bugmenot

Pierre Clostermann, Spitfire pilot.
"I tried to fire on a '109' that I spotted in the chaos. Not possible, I couldn't get the correct angle. My plane juddered on the edge of a stall. It was comforting that the Spitfire turned better than the '109'! Certainly at high speed - but not at low speed."

Cited in the "Great Show 2000".

I don't remember reading this in the original "Great show" published in the 1940's

~S!