Originally Posted by
JonnyT1978
In Paul Stoddart's article, he references use of the rear tanks making the Spitfire directionally unstable; didn't the P-51 also have this problem, and wasn't the guidance to always use the tanks in the order rear -> drop -> main?
i recall an article by the late Hoof Proudfoot describing his first "ferry flight" in a P-51D, from Geneva to the UK; he used main tanks first and it became somewhat squirrelly longitudinally.