Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

[Crumpp]

150 mph, in a vertikal dive, with a GRADUALLY recovery, surely you'll reach a pretty high velocity before leveling out, accelerating all the time.

Exactly.

Your thrust vector adds to gravity, lift opposes drag <unless you dive a zero lift angle>

In short, away you go...

in an aerobatic plane.

Like the one in my hanger???

That passenger is Col. Phil Lacey.

The Fitzpatrick Custom was just a dream in 1947 when a former World War II fighter pilot, Phil Lacey, showed his friend Al Fitzpatrick some of his car sketches.

Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/2006...#ixzz22txOQq1j

Col. Lacey flew P-40's, P-39's, and P51's with the 8th USAAF in World War II. In Korea he flew F-86's and Vietnam, Canberra bombers.

You don't what aerobatics is until you seen Phil take the stick, LOL. That old man can fly the paint off an airplane.

And yes, he reads and abides by the Operating Notes.....