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Old 21st Jan 2013, 23:03
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the stick push on the 125 came in with the longer fuselages - 800 onwards?
Thence is fuselage length (wing-tailplane distance) a factor in the choice of a ‘T’ tail?
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The long fuselage came into service with the 600 series 125, the 700 series being essentially a cleaned up 600 but with the Garrett fan engines. These 'stretched' variants had the fuselage length increased forward of the wing root leading edge (ie the wing - tailplane distance was the same as the earlier variants).

AIRC neither were fitted with a stick push system.

The 800 series and later (800XP, 1000), of course, have a very different (totally redesigned) wing to the earlier aircraft, extended in span by some 4' 4.5" (as well as further fuselage extensions). I would guess that this new wing fundamentally altered the stalling characteristics, hence the stick push system?

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