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Old 5th Dec 2002, 08:02
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arcniz
 
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Stiff upper lip notwithstanding, rudders are balanced control surfaces, and random self-dissasembly of their skins has some potential to provoke flutter modes that could do nasty things to the whole bird, in short order.
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