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Old 8th Jul 2010, 21:34
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"Weathercocking" is stability. I'm simply using the OP's term. Newtonian, Bernoullian, Brobdingnagian, it doesn't matter. You've got a symmetrical airfoil at the back of the plane. Don't get caught up in semantics.

I thought Italia's original point was that it was the elevator that makes the plane turn.
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