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Originally Posted by JtD
A Spitfire V as tested by NACA went practically into stall with the elevator still depressed at about 4° (~25% of travel). It did a 3g turn at 170 mph with the elevator at about neutral. Think about that when you check in game behaviour. 
The neutral trim point of the elevator trim can be set by the pilot in game, so I don't think it matters much. I just trim it down a lot on take off and then have more fun flying the thing than I ever had before. |
I could not visit the only site I could find reporting on this NACA Spit test you quote-the browser forbids the site as unsafe.(ww2aircraft.net)
Could you find any such data on the heavy trimming necessary on the Spitfire, from a British source? Like the spitfireperformance site, for example?
Engineers have been known of mounting the things upside down on unfamiliar foreign equipment, you know.
Any trimming increases drag, reducing speed. Not irrelevent to a transport, you see.
Ahm, what's this:
' "It happened that Wright Field had the only Spitfire in America-a Mark V. Unfortunately almost every pilot in the Air Corps had had a go on her and like a car that had too many drivers, she was the worse for wear...'She was very tired, very sloppy-she'd had the guts caned out of her all right."
NACA got it for testing after that.'
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...91603&start=15
Hmm? How about looking at the sources that say the things you may not like , too
?