To nobody in particular..if you want to find out about specific a/c flight characteristics…dont read text books…read autobiographies from pilots who actually flew them.
Stalling/wing drop is also relative/comparative and if anybody thinks that the spit(certainly up to Mk9/16) had any untoward characteristics,you may be reading the wrong books,or maybe thinking of the ‘Spiteful’ 😀
Having read every WWII Pilot biography that I could lay my hands on, I must agree that I have never read of the Spitfire’s stalling characteristics being described as anything other than gentle – predictable etc.
As regards paddle blade props; was the idea not to improve climb performance rather than level flight? I have seen that quoted as the reason for fitting them to P47’s, even at the expense of a few mph level speed?
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