Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

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Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

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.

If Crumpp wishes to make definitive statements and claims, based on a very small amount of evidence there's no reason they cannot be challenged.

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

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.

If not for you convenience then I'll answer for others - if you bothered reading the 1938 doco you'll see that aeronautical development had outstripped the standards of the time, from biplane to monoplane, such that the RAE and Air Min were working with the aircraft industry to promulgate better standards. Now, what happened during WW2? Jet aircraft, high speed prop driven aircraft approaching the speed of sound etc etc so now a new set of standards had to be developed and introduced; basically aeronautics and aeronautical engineering were changing extremely quickly from the early to mid 1930s on, so I don't believe that it was possible for even NACA to devise and stick to a definitive set of "standards" in the way Crumpp claims. Think about it - how was it possible to use the same stability and control standards for a 150 mph biplane fighter as for a 450 mph monoplane?