Full tanks
118.9: the AAIB report states that the aircraft's tanks were filled before leaving the home airfield. I wonder how full those tanks would then be when he arrived at Shoreham, given a slightly easterly breeze and a south westerly flight? I have wondered about the drag effect of control inputs, and the energy needed to 'move' the aircraft from one orientation to the other, all taking away energy from momentum. Note my name - yet, I do know from sailing on small boats in very tight racing that any control input, albeit in water rather than in air, takes away momentum and uses energy.