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Old 29th Oct 2006, 11:06
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Graviman
 
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Hotzenplotz,

Interesting observation. This may be simply to do with the mission profile for which this type of machine is designed. Most of these machines do not have the horizontal stabiliser which forces the fuselage attitude to present a profile for minimum drag. Two hubs will suffer over one hub, although with correct attitude and fairing i gather this can be minimised.

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