Where I come from that's "Spitfire" or "Spit", capitalized and spoken in the
same
reverent tone used for "Mustang" and "Corsair" and "Crusader" (especially
"Corsair";
I've spent 24 years with what's left of Vought.)
Anyway, Giles, your dad must have been one a hell of a good stick to get that
one
back.
Gary Edwards
Giles wrote:
> My father once took up a spitfire for a maintenance check during WW2. He was
> rather 'disconcerted' to find that the action of the ailerons had been
> reversed so
> that left stick gave right bank. He managed to get it and himself back in one
> piece.
>
> Giles
>
> gary edwards wrote:
>
> > Speaking of unexpected inversions: my first ride in a bizjet was a
> > maintaince check flight in a Sabreliner 60 many years ago. After we
> >
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