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Originally Posted by IceFire
I'm wondering if that was an early Beaufighter feature and that is why the tail on the Mark 21 is so distinctively designed. There had to be a reason for that.
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Does sound like a dihedral issue ....
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http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...ndling&f=false
Entering service in the nocturnal intercept role in September 1940 ... the Beaufighter displayed a measure of handling precocity. Extreme care had to be exercised to avoid incipient swing during takeoff; a side-to-side yawing during undercarriage retraction was not easily controllable and prior to adoption of tailplane dihedral it suffered pronounced fore-and-aft instability, particularly noticeable in the climb and landing approach.
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