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Old 27th Feb 2012, 13:28
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Originally Posted by Mariner's excellent summary
But the pitch rate will continue after touchdown due to the longitudinal inertia, added by the pitch up tendency caused by the spoilers. So a good push is needed to avoid a tail strike.
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Being a bit of a systems geek, this bit about the spoilers caught my attention.

Seems to me that the new B748 was found to have a similar tendency during early test flying. The solution was to add a bit of a time delay to the outboard spoilers activation.
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