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Old 07-25-2012, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by JtD View Post
I don't understand why folks are going nuts about the Spitfires longitudinal instability, it wasn't a problem for any pilot or how NACA put it "the well know long period oscillations have no correlation with the handling qualities of an airplane". Basically, it doesn't matter .
Maybe you should define those long period oscillations and make sure that is what the OP is talking about.

Looking on the diagrams i see very short period oscillations.

It is still the target to make it as realistic as possible with proved data.
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