Originally Posted by TURIN
No one has mentioned the deep stall issue yet (unless I have missed it).
Also didn't the Germans build the first wing-mounted podded-jet aircraft? The Me262.
They also put an overwing config aircraft into production. (MBB?)
The An-72/74 is a jet in routine operation with overwing engines.
I wonder why the +-tail is not more popular? Conventional tailplane cannot work with tail engines, but Caravelle, the original tailmounted jet, seems to fly fine with +-tail. BAC 1-11 had the first T-tail and lost the prototype and all aboard to deep stall. B-727 and most other regional and private jets have had T-tails... but Dassault Falcons, both twins and trijets, do fine with +-tails.