Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

[NZtyphoon]

Originally Posted by robtek

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.

Absolute nonsense, both reports combined define the desirable stall behaviour as being both slow speed and high speed - the only one placing a false interpretation on the resulting explanations is your good self and Crumpp

The Spitfire airplane had the unusual quality that it could be flown in a partly stalled condition in accelerated flight without becoming laterally unstable. Violent buffeting occurred, but the control stick could be pulled relatively far back after the initial stall flow breakdown without causing loss of control.

Neither of the NACA reports make the completely unquantified and unsubstantiated claim made by Crumpp that the turn performance was curtailed: