British FM killing the fun of the game for allied pilots.

[NZtyphoon]

Originally Posted by Crumpp

While many WWII fighters were unstable in very specific conditions such as in climb power with a specific speed range or landing configuration.... most were stable and met the requirements.

It is was very rare for a design to be unacceptable over the range of the envelope such as the Spitfire.

So, suddenly the Spitfire was unacceptable over the range of the envelope? I take it this includes stalling behaviour:




And because the Spitfire was so unacceptable over the range of the envelope NACA, and the engineer who compiled the report, later singled it out as being an example of a badly designed fighter that made all the rest look good:





Presumably these bad flight characteristics over the entire envelope meant that the poor sods called pilots hated flying the thing and couldn't wait to get out of the cockpit, shaking and drenched in sweat.

Originally Posted by Crumpp

It is patently false as a generalization.

Totally agree.