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Old 13th March 2011 | 18:24
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gijoe
 
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Have a look at the clever way that the designers of Concorde decided to deal with this problem - i.e. by shifting fuel around from the main tanks to trim tanks in the tail to keep things nice and easy. This negated the need for up or down trim of the elevons.

There are some good explanations of this on google.

Nice!

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