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[Dimus]

In addition to what was posted about fabric, one major disadvantage was that at high speeds a deflected fabric covered aileron or elevator tended to "balloon", losing it effectiveness and increasing the stick forces. This reduced the roll rate significantly at high speeds. Metal covered control surfaces solved this issue.

[Maico]

Not arguing your point.  I agree with the ballooning theory.  The question is why a metal plane with metal aileron.  I guess the fabric ones are lighter and easier to move with muscle power. They were easier to build for sure...

[chanklaus]

I also have a question to post here. It is a weird question - befitting for a weird kind of person - so feel free to laugh at me.

If I am sitting in front to the computer, playing the game, and my bladders or my guts are pressing me I set the game to hold, going to the toilets and then continue to play.

Well, the ai rservice people didn't have the possibility to "hold the game" - what were they going to do, especially in the one-seaters?
I've been in a glider plane, with a bottle in case I had to pisss - that's fine, and I suppose that was the solution during WWII as well. But what did they do in case of troubles in the guts? I've been told that people going into battles frequently encounter such problems, and I suppose if I was a gunner in, let's say a "Flying Fortress" going out on a raid to Berlin, with thousands of AA guns on my way, and German fighters waiting for me I'd be full of fears... and I'd have spare time for hours to think about my worries.

What did they do - and the Me-109 pilots on their way across the channel?

Hope I gave you a good laugh - and feverishly awaiting an answer.
I'd be surprised if that question would be a discussed topic in any of the history books...

Best greetings and wishes,
Yours

chanklaus

[razor1uk]

  I remember watching a B17 documentary, and in thay one crews ball turret gunner had liquid guts, but still went on mission, in his electically heated combat suit, up to his own neck in...
  The crew said when they were landing, when the airspeed slowed, they could all smell him (or blamed him for their own additional smells).

[soldaten]

One day I was looking at the external view of a PBY and noticed this suspicious looking object...



I looked it up online and sure enough, the PBY has a chemical toilet in this location.



So, at least on this plane, things would proceed easily when nature calls