Originally Posted by
oxenos
He would probably be scuppered by something as banal as brakes. In his time, brakes were a hand control, differential was by rudder input, which he could make. Depressing a toe brake requires an ankle movement.
His biographer (Brickhill) explains that Bader could not operate the foot brakes in a Harvard - his instructor did that job. Unless one was adapted Bader never soloed on the type.
The Spit and Hurri had hand operated brakes on the stick.