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Old 11th Nov 2010, 20:35
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I think that's what I meant! And from recent lectures (MSc Aircraft design), the tail isn't really creating lift, it's there to shift the centre of lift to a better place for stability taking the C of G into account, and generally has a negative angle of attack since the C of G is aft of the centre of pressure if you only had a wing - hence why flying wings are very very hard to make work...
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