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Old 21st December 2000 | 14:52
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Genghis the Engineer
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Under normal circumstances a T-tail is completely free of any flow affects from the wing and fuselage, thus giving much more reliable and predicatable characteristics.

The problem with that is that at the stall, some T-tailed aircraft find the elevator getting blanked by wing downwash, with sometimes disastrous consequences.

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