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Old 25th Jan 2012, 21:55
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Da-20 monkey
 
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Hello,

Because this is such an interesting plane, I have a few questions. Maybe someone can answer, would be interesting:

When a concord(e) is in supersonic cruise, is there one main compression/ expansion wave? If so, where is it located, on the longitudinal axis?

Also:

It is quite obvious that the plane doesn't have a horizontal tail. Now I know that a plane without a tail can be statically stable (I think), but is concorde dynamically stable?

If so, how is this achieved?
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