About the 109's landing... Some have said there was a problem with the toe out configuration of the landing gear.
But anyway in Russia the landing fields usually were a disaster (they had to uncover the wheels because of the mud) while in the western front as Hartmann said to Hitler there were young pilots ordered to fly in every kind of weather: of course they usually failed to takeoff/land.
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A whole generation of pilots learned to treasure the Spitfire for its delightful response to aerobatic manoeuvres and its handiness as a dogfighter. Iit is odd that they had continued to esteem these qualities over those of other fighters in spite of the fact that they were of only secondary importance tactically.Thus it is doubly ironic that the Spitfire’s reputation would habitually be established by reference to archaic, non-tactical criteria.
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