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Old 08-06-2012, 02:03 PM
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the reason the inertia weights were added was to help overcome a problem with poor cg loading at a squadron level
Again, the RAE may have blamed it on that but they were also behind in Stability and Control research. The NPL pretty much stagnated until the efforts of Gates and Lyons came to fruition post war moving AWAY from the conclusion stability and control could not be defined without pilot input.





The opinion of the NACA was much different and their test aircraft was NOT overloaded and at a normal CG.

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