Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

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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 black and white evidence being posted to show how doubtful their case is.

But it is not that way.

First, the anti-Spitfire faction exist's only in your mind.

Second, anybody who knows stability and control can read the article to see the characteristics clearly.

The gentleman who was interviewed for the article points out the fact they did not have a good understanding of stability and control engineering at the time.

The article is most interesting because it shows the thought process of the day and not for its engineering conclusions.

You however, take those engineering conclusions as proof. By that thinking, we should be doing meta-center calculations to prove the airplane was stable!!