Deep Stall?

[NutherA2]

[quote=Conan the Librarian] I wonder what it would have taken to dispense with the tailplane altogether?

I believe that the tailplane was essential because the Dragmaster needed flaps, which in turn were necessary to avoid giving the aircraft an unacceptably high nose attitude during landing; the alternative would presumably have been an immensely long nosewheel assembly. If anyone's got a better explanation, though, I'd defer to their expertise.