Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

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Originally Posted by Crumpp

Really? It was the second major problem he mentions out of the 68 structural failures.

Wrong: 20 case of pilots losing control in cloud, 13 structural failures due to oxygen starvation, three due to pilot black-out - in none of these cases is longitudinal instability mentioned as a major or causative factor.

Originally Posted by robtek

Still the "pro Spitfire faction" is trying to push the dispute to a black and white scenario and concentrate to steer the thread to sections where they believe to have valid counter-documentation.

The truth is always grey!

The anti-Spitfire, bad longitudinal instability faction can only see a cloudy, murky-grey, glass half empty scenario where there is no clear evidence that longitudinal instability actually caused in flight structural failure and they don't like valid black and white documentary evidence being posted to show how doubtful their case is.