Quote:
Originally Posted by xnomad
There are a lot of accounts of Spitfire and Hurricane pilots making a 109 follow them in a dive at low altitude and then quickly pulling up. The 109 can't pull up as sharply and crashes into the ground.
|
It's a legend. Not historic facts.
The tested 109 had dead-weights added in the tail by French testing dep to compensate for the torn fuselage (109 building techniques was really advanced at the time for either Brits or French to be able to make the correction).
I know that it was widely popularized in IL2 with all those aces diving at 450+kph and then pulling up. Add this to the climbing turn
à la Spit... Same topic.