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Old 05-05-2012, 05:34 PM
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As this phrase, as it stands here, is to my knowledge right, it does not apply to the spitfire.
Yes and that is why I specifically did not address the Spitfire. In the Spitfire, the benefit of having an elliptical wing efficiency was all but eliminated in compensating for the stall characteristics of an elliptical wing.