Could a Rapide" corkscrew" as well as a Lanc...?
As far as I remember, Kookabat, we weren't encouraged to evade with the Rapides but were told to stay in the beam in order to give the gunners "sighting" practice..."pour encourager les autres !". I only had to "corkscrew" on Halifaxes and they were a brute to fly ,straight and level, let alone corkscrew, but you would be surprised at the physical strength that you suddenly acqure when you are trapped in the beams of searchlights with flak all round you or, worse, none, signifying that a German fighter was just about lining you up. You got your head down and flung the plane around like a Tiger moth....Moth is a good analogy..Transfixed !