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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon
As I have pointed out before Crumpp made this an integral part of his claims about the Spitfire control characteristics - that Britain's aircraft manufacturers did not have a design standard for stability and control, therefore they designed bad characteristics into aircraft such as the Spitfire and got away with it because, unlike the mighty Yanks and Germans, they were not "obligated" to correct such things; this type of claim deserves to be challenged because it shows an incomprehensible lack of knowledge from someone who claims to be an expert in aeronautical engineering! Blame Crumpp for introducing the subject in his first posting.
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Why does it matter, though? Historical trivia does not an engineer make. You can't prove someone isn't an engineer because they haven't heard of Somebody Lanchester.
I'm an engineer and I've never heard of him before this thread.
And lastly, not that I really care, but if Britain had a unified standard in the 30s, then why is there a document from 1947 talking about developing one for the first time? I'm sure that the individual manufacturers did indeed have their own standards, but that's not being disputed.