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Originally Posted by Crumpp
No that is in the Operating Notes....
So, we can say in 1940, the RAE had no standards, they just knew they had a dangerous airplane so they warn the pilot often.
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They warned the pilot often in one set of Pilot's Notes and nowhere do they say the Spitfire was dangerous. They talk about the onset of blackout during high G manoeuvers but that's it.
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Originally Posted by Crumpp
In 1946, the early mark Spitfires would have been labeled as "unacceptable" by the RAE but since they had to have bob-weights, there was no need.
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Meaningless, purely hypothetical, therefore irrelevant - the early Spitfires did not
need bob-weights in the elevator circuit they came later on the Mk Vs and were superseded by the larger, reshaped elevator mass balances.
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Originally Posted by Crumpp
You won't find a Spitfire flying today without bob-weights.
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How about a little proof?
Just for interest this
story of X4276 describes what a young, trainee Sergeant thought about the dangerous Spitfire:
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"The Spitfire was a beautiful aircraft, like a Tiger Moth but with real power. A doddle to fly. We used to throw them about all over the place, as unfortunately I demonstrated."
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