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Old 28th Aug 2012, 20:42
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Surely the fuselage fore-section is going to induce both an adverse tortional bending moment on the fin structure and a destabilising lateral stability characteristic on the host aircraft?

I'm not sure of the weight of a bang seat, but that much weight so far aft of the CG suddenly released on test would probably induce quite an interesting transient pitching moment.

But if it all works, it'll have been a very clever idea.
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