Leading Edge Slats on the Me-109

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Originally Posted by Crumpp

From the Spitfire Mk II Operating Handbook. The same warning appears in all early mark Spitfires:



Roll instability near the stall as noted the NACA agrees with the Operating Note warnings:



That help?

Yeah, so only 'AFTER' the Spitfire has actually fired it's guns does it begin to suffer any form of lateral instability, just got to make sure the first burst counts then.
Like NZtyphoon says, Crumpp completely ignores the 95% of positive report on the Spitfire but emphasises the negative 5%, NACA summaried their report saying the Spits stalling characteristics were it's redeeming feature.