sycamore (#12257),
Thanks ! But there are no more than about 15 VV pics, most of them well known and none remarkable in any way. But you have dozens of "Valiants" (US BT-13), of evil memory .....
From my Page 119, #2367:
The BT-13 was very awkward in the air. You started a turn to the left with a bit of left stick and ease back. The thing skidded and you had to use rudder to bring the nose round. Then the nose would drop, and you had to take off bank to avoid losing height. It left you with crossed controls (left rudder and right stick), crabbing round uncomfortably. And in right turns, vice versa. This aircraft should never have gone into production. I have never flown anything with worse harmonised controls. It had a lot of dihedral and a big fin, so it was stable enough. Straight and level flight was fine. Turns were the problem.