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Old 30th July 2001 | 12:49
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john_tullamarine
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The subsonic situation is that the nett lift vector sits somewhere near quarter chord while, for the supersonic case, it is near half chord.

The cg needs to be moved rearwards to accommodate the lift distribution changes...hence tailplane tanks and the like

The interesting bits are in the transonic regime.
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