Meeting BoB Spit pilot and Rigger

For the rigger:

A couple of days ago I saw a entertainment documentary about the delivery of a Spitfire (later modell with invasion stripe markings) to the US. A British pilot did the last check and tuning flights with the Spit in the US before handing over the keys. One of the tuning work done was to slightly bend the left corner trailing edge of the right aileron upwards (using a pre-formed wood block that the pilot held with his left hand on the upper side of the aileron where the bending should take place and with his right hand he held a hammer and thus hammering the bottom of the aileron trailing edge of the Spit and thus incurbing this part slightly upwards). The objective was to modify slightly the airflow there so that inflight the airstream would timidly pull the aileron from neutral position down thus countering the right roll tendency encountered otherwise. The pilot said this was described as a procedure in the handbooks. I would like to know more about this. Can this be confirmed by the rigger? What where the commonly applied procedure?

[_79_dev]

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Would You be able to ask him what was top altitude they ever flown in early spit versions, was it really hard to fight against 109's at celling alt? How hard was spit in controls manners at high alt?

Thank You in advance...

[Nicolo]

I wish there were a post here from Luthier saying "ask them if they want to work with us as consultants". I thought the developers had some veteran consultancy.
What a nice oportunity PPP, we're waiting for your post about the meeting.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Ask him if he knows how much this community respect him (and all those like him who's experiences we're afraid are being lost) and thank him for what he's done, and for his time to answer our questions.

A very big +1