What a good thread. Pax D, it was me who posted a while back re books on bird flight. As you say, there were few replies, and searches on Amazon, at the London Library etc have drawn blanks, but this thread is producing some interesting replies, as well as a few half decent jokes.
Re the aerobatic Magpie ace, surprising to see a stall turn as an evasive manoeuvre (try it in CFS and even the exceedingly stupid computer-controlled badguys will get you). Presumably the bandits expected him to split-S and he threw them off with an unexpected move. Always thought magpies were boom-zoomers rather than dogfighters, but perhaps this was the P-38 variant with the combat flaps?
