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Old 05-06-2011, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by bugmenot View Post
Pierre Clostermann, Spitfire pilot.
"I tried to fire on a '109' that I spotted in the chaos. Not possible, I couldn't get the correct angle. My plane juddered on the edge of a stall. It was comforting that the Spitfire turned better than the '109'! Certainly at high speed - but not at low speed."
Cited in the "Great Show 2000".

I don't remember reading this in the original "Great show" published in the 1940's

~S!
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