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Old 09-08-2012, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Treetop64 View Post
Actually, aircraft that fly with a vertical stabilizer can still fly without it, but at a loss of longitudinal stability, and at greater risk of entering - and staying in - a flat spin in some conditions. An aircraft just doesn't fall out of the sky just because it lost it's vertical tail.

Now, if an aircraft loses it's entire elevator control or a wing...
yeah it would fall out of the sky if taking out the elevation controls or the wing and it would fall out of the sky