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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon
The reason bob-weights were adopted was because several Spitfire Vs had been destroyed through poor loading at squadron level; this has been explained by Supermarine's Chief Test pilot Jeffrey Quill, although some Spitfirephobes consider him to be so totally biased he's incapable of telling the truth  Of course we have to believe these "experts' such as Crumpp or Barbi, and not Quill, who was the chief propagandist of the Spitfire: 
To say that they were adopted because of inherent design problems with the Spitfire Is and II is wrong; they were used on the Spitfire III because it had developed cg problems and adopted in Spitfire Vs because of poor loading and increased equipment. |
The text you quoted, nztyphoon, says that the Spit1a b and the spit 2 had no stability problems and then continues with the cog problems of the spit 5.
There is nothing wrong with this text, but is it really applicable to this topic?
If the spit2 didn't had have stability problems, as you quoted, why were bobweights mounted?