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Originally Posted by Crumpp
The British did not have Stability and Control Standards during World War II. Only the United States and Germany had them in place.
To determine flying qualities, the RAE relied upon the individual talent of the design firm and the opinion of its test pilots.
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Wrong, once again: the RAE did indeed have standards and supplied these to the aviation industry:
During WW2, however, the demands of production testing thousands of aircraft meant that each factory adopted its own techniques, designed to test aircraft to an acceptable standard, as quickly as possible, before delivery: this did not mean that there wasn't a standard set by the RAE, simply a divergence of ways in which it was done at a production level. The same thing happened in the 'States, each factory adopted a testing regime broadly following the NACA guidelines.