Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

[MiG-3U]

Originally Posted by robtek

Isn't the instability the fact that the Spitfire tightens its turn by itself without further control input???

So you mean that all the early Spitfire's had the control reversal at turn?

And do you mean that longitudinally instable aircraft has also the control reversal?

The problem here is that you extend a phenomena found on the worst case for all the early Spitfires.