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Old 26th Mar 2009, 16:07
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HarryMann
 
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No, trim-drag is what is says, drag due to having to trim out unbalanced PMs, which is the tail's job. If it has to work hard one way or the other in the cruise, you get high induced drag from it, and maybe some additional profile drag. The tail of course is working in the downwash field from the mainplane, which itself changes with AOA, but in a stabilising sense.
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