Hmm, Well once in the 72mhz days when I was active in Q500 pylon, antennas always trailed about fourteen inchs past the stinger and during the heat of the launch in which the airplanes were are always rather violently shoved forward when the flag drops.

My team mate made a picture perfect launch however just a hundred feet after the launch I discovered I had nothing with predictable results and looking down there was most of my antenna still under his knee.

Just Saying

John