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Originally Posted by TomcatViP
Washout is good but produce a lot of drag. Accetable for a GA aircraft but not good for a fighter! It's one of the raison why the Spitty was so slow!
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The drag profile for the Spitfire showed the majority of the drag was a function of its radiator placement, not the washout.
And are you suggesting slats don't produce drag? Any device this size extended into the airstream below the wing is obviously going to produce a very large amount of drag.
Even when the slats are not extended there was drag.
And the 109 wing's tendency to early compressibility was partially a function of the slats being present.
If you haven't seen it, then time to look at the following analysis, by an engineer who was on the Messerschmidt design staff:
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...ner-Me_109.pdf