Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

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Actually I did and I have checked what you have said. Unfortunately what you have said and what so far I have checked don't tally. For example the Me109 certainly doesn't fit your criteria, without a rudder trim then eventually the aircraft will need manual input. It is also stated in the Zero report that constant attention is needed on the rudder. The Fw190 has almost no trimming tabs on the controls and in my limited experience of powered aircraft without trimming tabs you cannot be hands off and always have to stay in control

It is a similar story when you gave me a list of books that said that the Me109 could turn with the Spitfire, I have checked two of them out and they don't seem to say what you said they say. I did ask where they did agree with your statement, but there was no reply.

I have asked for a list of the flight tests or reports from test establishents/test pilots that say that the SPit was difficult or dangerous or uncomfortable to fly. You stated that you had these but as we have discovered it only referred to the prototype and that was fixed in first production.

You have a habit of being very very selective over what you state and often don't read the papers in their entirity before forming a picture, I can give a number of examples if you so wish.

Take the regs you just quoted. I am pretty sure that MIL-F-8785 is to do with the rolling of an aircraft so what has this to do with longatudinal stability?
I could be wrong on this so if you could confirm this I would appreciate it. However it again from memory it calculated the characteristics of five different types of aircraft from transports to fighters defining what was acceptable for each.
However I cannot help suspect that you are trying to impress and blind us with a list of regs rather than concentrate on what is correct.