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Old 1st March 2004 | 21:59
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Field In Sight
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Woooooaaahhh there Right Stuff, easy fella.

I think jerrytug has a valid point.

Consider a high and STRAIGHT wing aircraft. When flying right way up, the lower CofG acts as a pendulous stabilising force.

Roll it over to inverted flight and the aircraft now has a destabilising pendulous force.

Now consider the reverse happening for a low STRAIGHT wing aircraft.

The aircraft might not know which way is up, but the CofG certainly does (and the pilot's breakfast also does)

FIS.
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