High Speed Shaking

[Viper2000]

It's certainly no Fw190, but lots of relatively big guns in the nose and reasonable top speed should make it pretty effective against opponents with poor SA (who should be more plentiful now that there's a lot more systems management for people to worry about...).

As for snaking & other aspects of stability & control, try this:

http://history.nasa.gov/monograph12/ch4.htm