Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

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Originally Posted by robtek

It is always boring when the old red vs blue flag is waved again.

Agreed 100%.. Which is why I was so surprised to see you waving the blue flag here in this spitfire thread.. In that your posts are typically balanced.. But here, clearly your bias was playing a part when you only made note of the negative aspects of this trait.

Originally Posted by robtek

You should remember that it is not about this trait that we are talking, but how to get there!

Willingly or inadvertently?

Agreed 100%.. I noticed that you (and others) were only talking about the 'inadvertently' case.. Which I suspect was done because it was the most negative aspect of the trait.. That is the reason I brought up the 'willingly' case to show how there is a positive aspect to this trait.. And to point out how the blue minded members typically only bring that aspect up when talking about the Fw-190.. Your post is a perfect example of this.. In that you knew in advance there was a positive aspect of this trait.. But you made no mention of it 'here' in this 'spitfire' topic.

Originally Posted by robtek

Of course it was done,

Glad to see you agree with me

Originally Posted by robtek

as a last resort,

I don't know if I would go as far as to say last.. I suspect the order in which it was used depended a lot on the pilot and how comfortable he was with it and the situation at hand.

Originally Posted by robtek

even as flick maneuvers were explicitly forbidden in the pilots notes.

Got Link?

Originally Posted by robtek

Also there are enough Spitfire fans which will point out every positive aspect possible.

Oh don't get me wrong!

I realize there are blue and red biased members of this forum

Just up until now, I always considered you to be pretty balanced.. but now I see you have your moments of bias too!

Originally Posted by robtek

Even in a very specific thread where by now at least 50% of the posts are slightly or completely off topic.

Even some of mine, sorry for that.

Enh!

Topics are like a river.. They flow and bend and change direction.. No big whoop! Mater of fact I think one would be hard pressed to show any thread that has not had more than one or changing topics.. Except for the ones that get locked within the first page!