Ignorance is bliss!

Just looking up the Typhoon’s rate of climb & came across this –

“Several test pilots were killed in the Typhoon. Of the first 142 delivered, only seven were not involved in serious non-combat accidents due to engine or airframe failures at one time or another. The tail problems turned out to be due to elevator flutter and were cured by modifying elevator balance, but that didn’t happen until very near to the end of the war. Since nobody knew what was causing the trouble before that time, a distinctive row of “fish plates” was attached in a ring around the fuselage just ahead of the horizontal tailplane as an interim measure to keep the tail on”.

SO glad that we only got fed half-truths!!

I note that I flew to Henlow ‘for modifications’!!

And saw a quote of 6000+ fpm climb rate for the Tempest V??

= Tim