Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

[robtek]

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Above all of this is the lack of accidents. All the issues he talks about are serious safety issues but we have a serious lack of any incidents.......

There might be hundreds of Spitfires being lost over sea or behind enemy lines because of mishandling in stress situations, all disregarded because being accorded to enemy action.
Nobody knows that for sure.
The only data we have is a per se incomplete list of researched accidents.