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Originally Posted by robtek
Those 130 accidents also don't include those losses, where after a few insignificant machine gun hits, or even only tracers around the cockpit, the pilot overreacted and went in with his ride because of over-g or a spin, which shurely has happened a few times.
It shurely then was accounted under losses because of enemy action.
There were quite a lot Spitfires lost during the BoB and not all had been shot to pieces.
And glider, nobody has said anything about the Spitfire being weak!!!
Only that the Spitfire controls made it relatively easy to reach the structural limits.
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It is a simple fact that if it was relatively easy to reach the structural limit then the limit would have been reached and a lot more would have broken up.
I am sorry but all the evidence is that they didn't. Despite being flown in combat often by inexperienced pilots in the most testing situations, they didn't break up.
When the limit was reached at the end of the war the wings tended to bend not break.
You build into the game a factor that makes it easy for the Spitfire to break up it will be a huge error.
40ish falures in combat, in thousands of aircraft, over the entire war in millions of flights isn't the sign of an aircraft that is easy to break structurally
The comment about some lightly damaged aircraft crashing because an inexperienced pilot over reacted is misleading because it obviously must have happened, but the same logic applies to any fighter in any airforce. Even here, its worth remembering that the Spitfire was easier to fly than the Me109 so logic would say that it was less likely to happen to a Spitfire.