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Old 05-27-2008, 08:36 PM
Feuerfalke Feuerfalke is offline
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Originally Posted by DK-nme View Post
when loosing the tail, there's no directionally stability and the plane ought to raise or lower the nose and then tumble/rotate and plummeting towards the ground - almost like in il-2.
The wings will make the plane rotate around the new axis level to the wings, going from wingtip to wingtip, because of loss of stability and lift...
Dont know wether this gives any meaning to U, but i havent got the time to write more...

DK-nme
That was exactly what I saw in the model-plane and what I think would be logical. If a plane would fly straight without the tailsection, why install it in the first place?
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